Seedance 2.5: ByteDance extends generative video to 30 seconds in a single shot
The Seed team pushes single-shot generation to 30 seconds, with multi-modal references (30 images + 10 videos + 10 audios) and timestamp editing.
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MiniMax H3 open-source: Chinese lab breaks the price of full-modal
MiniMax releases H3, an open-source full-modal (text, image, audio, video) model at one-third the price of competitors. The AI video market stops being binary: expensive closed-source or weak open-source.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 12 14
Hugging Face used to strip women and children - the cost of open weights is on the platform now
A report documents how Hugging Face is used to easily create non-consensual intimate images - including of children. The cost of open weights is no longer theoretical.
Jul 28, 2026 at 21:00 10 12
FLUX 3: Black Forest Labs announces a multimodal flow model that surpasses Seedance 2.0 and Gemini
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3, its new generation of multimodal flow matching models. The lab claims superior results to Seedance 2.0 and Gemini on internal benchmarks. It remains to be confirmed by third-party evaluations.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:00 8 8
ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro - the first Chinese image model that plays in the big leagues
Pandaily publishes an in-depth hands-on review of Seedream 5.0 Pro. It finally includes useful benchmarks, failure cases, and a position in the landscape.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 12 6