#ai-video-generation

#ai-video-generation

The film, “Critterz,” was intended to debut at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but missed out on that deadline after OpenAI shuttered its Sora AI video generator, Bloomberg reports. With OpenAI's “Toy Story” moment sounding like yet another shuttered dream, the film's creators are now looking for a new AI partner to continue making the film. In an interview with Bloomberg, co-producers Chad Nelson, an OpenAI creative strategist, and James Richardson said that they're now aiming to release “Critterz” in the first quarter of next year.

Google called Gemini Omni "the next step" up from Nano Banana and, presumably, its current video generator, Veo 3.1. It lets you "combine images, audio, video and text as input and generate high-quality videos grounded in Gemini's real-world knowledge," according to the tech giant. You can then edit those videos through natural conversation, with each instruction building on the last to keep characters and other elements consistent.

Meta said in a statement that it was "proud to be an official partner of the Festival de Cannes in a new multi-year strategic partnership", replacing social video platform TikTok. The group is set to organise a series of promotional events for its video-enabled Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which are becoming increasingly popular among influencers but have sparked privacy fears. It will also showcase its new artificial intelligence-powered video generative technology, which has been embraced by Oscar-winning "Traffic" director Steven Soderbergh for his latest film.

ByteDance put the global launch on hold after disputes with major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms. That pressure is not happening in isolation. Copyright fights have become one of the central fault lines in generative AI, especially for image, music, and video tools trained on large datasets.

Today, with V4, we're setting a new benchmark for avatar fidelity and performance while keeping it fast enough for real-time conversations and consistent, efficient, and secure enough for enterprise scale. The avatars, trained on footage of real-life professional actors to achieve realistic responses, can offer real-time emotion and sentiment alignment with LLM responses.

Brief videos generated by the model, including a clip featuring Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt, soon went viral and drew intense criticism from Hollywood. While one successful screenwriter declared that the footage meant, "It's likely over for us," studios quickly sent ByteDance a flurry of cease-and-desist letters, with Disney's lawyers accusing the company of a "virtual smash-and-grab of Disney's IP."

I don't think it's super kosher copacetic to just kind of rob freely under the auspices of acceleration or China,

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra. Until now, Firefly only supported prompt-based generation, so you would have to recreate the entire clip if any part of the video was not to your liking. With the new editor, you can use text prompts to edit video elements, colors, and camera angles, and we also get a new timeline view that lets you adjust frames, sounds and other characteristics easily.

Social media has become an essential marketing channel for entrepreneurs, yet finding time to maintain an active presence remains a major challenge. For busy business owners, the constant pressure to create engaging content, respond to comments, and stay visible across multiple platforms can feel overwhelming. The reality is that effective social media engagement requires strategy, not just sporadic posting. Many entrepreneurs struggle to balance social media management with their core business responsibilities.

As I uploaded a 1940s photo of my grandpa Max and hit a few buttons in Google's Veo 3 video generator, I saw a familiar family photo transform from black and white to color. Then, my grandpa stepped out of the photo and walked confidently toward the camera, his army uniform perfectly pressed as his arms swung at the sides of his lanky frame. This is the kind of thing AI lets you do now-virtually bring back the dead.

Today at its flagship advertiser event, Brandcast, YouTube announced it will begin rolling out Veo 3, Google's most powerful AI video generation model, on YouTube Shorts for free to select countries in MENA over the coming weeks. The announcement comes as new GWI data reveals a significant, unique audience on the platform, with 61% of YouTube Shorts users in Saudi Arabia and 54% in the UAE reporting that they do not use Instagram Reels.

The kinds of videos that do well on YouTube Shorts are depressingly predictable: cute cats, heated arguments, crazy stunts, and plenty of good old-fashioned shots of people suffering low-key injuries. The issue is that the real world produces only so many epic fails. And of the small number that do happen, even fewer are caught on video. Think of all the airplane passenger arguments and dropped wedding cakes that have gone untaped and unposted!

Last month, The Atlantic dropped the latest investigation in its ongoing series on generative AI training data sets. Staff writer Alex Reisner found that at least 15 million YouTube videos had been used for training data by major technology companies, either for research or, in some cases, to build AI video products.

Grok Imagine, an image and video generation tool, debuted in July. Musk said earlier this month that the company plans to release a "watchable" full-length film by the end of 2026, and "really good movies" in 2027. He has hyped up the chatbot's image generation skills, from reenactments of the final scene of "King Kong" to a version of "Iron Man" in which he plays Tony Stark.

Based on OpenAI's Sora 2 model, the Sora app and site devise videos in a few seconds based on your text descriptions. You can add audio to your video with both sound effects and dialog that sync up with people speaking. You can also choose the style -- anything from animated to photorealistic to surreal. Also: There's a new OpenAI app in town - here's what to know about Sora for iOS

On an initial glance, a video that's going viral on social media looks like a typical 1990s TV commercial for a children's toy set of a tropical island: there are palm trees, a waterfall, and - wait a minute - there's also a secret massage room, and even an "Orange Man" action figure who looks exactly like Donald Trump and says "don't release the files" in an ominous voice.

Whether you're a filmmaker chasing cinematic precision, a marketer scaling ad campaigns, or a solo creator on a tight budget, there's a tool here for you. From Google's V3 with its film-grade fidelity to Clipyard's lifelike avatars, each platform offers unique strengths tailored to specific needs. We'll also share a few bonus tools for those seeking niche features or alternative solutions. The possibilities are vast, and the right tool could transform not just your workflow, but the way you tell stories.

"[W]hile I don't think it's going to propel us to a misinformation doomsday just yet, Veo 3 strikes me as an absolute AI slop machine," Johnson wrote.

The new AI video generation feature in the Bing app allows users to create videos for free, using advanced technology previously available only through ChatGPT subscriptions.