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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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
Code Mode in production: "26 tool calls, one script, $0.02" prices the end of the tool loop
Agent Swarm publishes the cleanest production measurement to date: Code Mode delivers a model-invariant ~99.2% dollar cost reduction versus the classic tool loop. Cloudflare (99.9% token cut) and Anthropic (98.7% on Drive→Salesforce) had promised it; it's now reproduced on real workload.
Jul 23, 2026 at 18:39 6 6
"The LLM critics are right. I use LLMs anyway" - the voice that reassembles
A post from theocharis.dev makes it to Hacker News: "LLM critics are right. I use them anyway." The assumed compromise position becomes an editorial style in itself.
Jul 16, 2026 at 17:46 33 8