Seedance 2.0, ByteDance's second-generation video model, has spent the last two months being quietly agreed upon as the best AI video generator currently available. That consensus sits across a remarkably wide spread of opinion, from online creator communities to...
As Seedance gets sued and Sora shuts down, a new generation of platforms is trying to answer the question the industry has been avoiding: if AI can copy anyone's face, who's in charge?
The industry has spent the past two years getting remarkably good at generating human faces. It hasn't spent nearly enough time working out who those faces belong to.
The consequences of that gap arrived in quick succession earlier this year. ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0 in February. Within days, users were generating photorealistic clips of Tom Cruise fighting...
Higgsfield, OpenArt, Leonardo, FreePik. If you're paying any of these platforms for access to AI video models you could reach directly, it's worth asking what exactly your subscription is buying. Because ByteDance just put Seedance 2.0 inside CapCut for...
Ben Affleck has had two positions on artificial intelligence. The first was the public one. Appearing on the Joe Rogan podcast in 2023, he said he didn't believe AI could write anything meaningful, or produce films of any real...
Fiverr has launched a curated hub of AI video directors available for brand commissions. The roster is small, the client lists are real, and the message to every creator watching is unmistakable: this market is professionalising. The question is...
Mirage, the company formerly known as Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund. The round isn't remarkable for its size. It's remarkable for what it tells you about where the money thinks...
