AI Video

Jul 15, 2026

Goldman Sachs Just Made AI Video Generation Quality a Stock Signal

Industry news12 min read

Runway Agent 2.0: AI Video's Shift From Generation to Agentic Production

Runway shipped Agent 2.0 on June 25, 2026 and Agent Skills on July 2, letting one command turn a brief into a localized, multi-format ad campaign. Luma shipped the same shift first, in March. Here's what it means that AI video suppliers no longer compete on generation quality alone.

Jul 13, 2026

Industry news15 min read

Google Photos Video Remix Just Made AI Video Editing the Default

Google Photos Video Remix lets anyone restyle an existing clip with a text prompt, powered by Gemini Omni. Here is what the July 2026 launch reveals about AI video editing becoming a default consumer feature, five weeks after Google made AI video generation free on YouTube.

Jul 11, 2026

Industry news12 min read

TwelveLabs Raises $100 Million to Prove AI Video's Next Bottleneck Is Understanding, Not Generation

TwelveLabs raised $100M and signed a multiyear AWS Trainium chip deal on July 1, 2026, while 2026's biggest AI video headlines keep going to generation models. Here is what the funding map reveals about the video understanding layer.

Jul 7, 2026

Industry news14 min read

Kling AI's $2 Billion Funding Round: Inside AI Video's $18 Billion Bet

Kuaishou's Kling AI raised $2B+ at an $18 billion valuation, the largest funding round in AI video generation's history. Here is what the ARR growth, peer valuations, and the 2027 IPO clock actually reveal about the economics of the model layer.

Jul 3, 2026

Industry news11 min read

Google Just Priced the Image-to-Video Commerce Pipeline: Here's the Real Math

Google's June 30 launch of Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash public preview puts a real price tag on image-to-video for the first time: $0.034 per 1,000 images to draft, $0.10 per second to animate. Here's what a 15-second product video actually costs to generate, and what it means for commerce video economics.

Jul 1, 2026

Industry news10 min read

Why Two Hollywood Studios Took Equity in AI Video Providers in 11 Days

In June 2026, A24 and Lionsgate each took equity stakes in AI video providers 11 days apart. Neither framed it as cost reduction. Here is what the deals reveal about where AI filmmaking tools have landed.

State of US Video Production Agencies 2026: A Data Report on 1,016 Agencies

We profiled 1,016 US video production agencies. The typical one is a 4-person boutique that sells 5.6 services and clusters in four states. Full data report.

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Jun 25, 2026

Industry news10 min read

Seedance 2.5: ByteDance's Native 30-Second AI Video Model and the End of Stitching

ByteDance announced Seedance 2.5 on June 23, 2026, the first major AI video model to generate a native 30-second 4K clip in a single pass. Here is what that means for production teams dealing with the stitching problem.

Jun 25, 2026

Industry news12 min read

The AI Video Power Vacuum: How Sora's Collapse and Seedance's Legal Freeze Handed Alibaba Global Market Leadership

OpenAI shut Sora down in April 2026. ByteDance froze Seedance 2.0's global rollout in March after Hollywood cease-and-desist letters. Within 90 days, two of the most credible enterprise AI video models exited the international market. Alibaba launched HappyHorse 1.1 on June 22 into that gap, the only enterprise-grade model with a global API, native lip sync, and audio in a single pass. Here is the full analysis.