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Viggle Calls It Open-Weight. Its Own License Locks Out the US.

Viggle's new model claims to be open-weight. The license it ships under bars the US, EU, UK and South Korea from using it — the first installment of RCTV's open-weights claims tracker.

SEP 24 6 MIN REFERENCE Read the piece →

Six stats from RCTV's open-weights audit, September 24, 2026: four territories excluded by MiniMax H3's license, which Viggle-Animate inherits; HappyHorse-1.0 at 150 days since its API launch with no weights published; zero Wan 2.7 repositories on GitHub, Hugging Face or ModelScope; three vendors shipping under territory-excluding licenses; Apache 2.0 as the clean baseline for MAGI-2 Preview and NVIDIA Cosmos 3; and Viggle-Animate as the sixth outside build on H3 and the first to inherit the fine print unstated.

Fig. 1 This week's lead infographic

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HappyHorse-1.0 Is Open Source. The Weights Are a Different Story.

Analysis · May 6, 2026

AI Video Stack — 2026

Living Reference · Sep 20, 2026

Living reference The AI Video Stack, 2026 Every model, tool, and service worth knowing — tiered by what they do, not how loud they are. Updated weekly. Open Stack →

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Six stats from the week: OpenAI's Sora API goes dark three days after this roundup publishes, six months after its own notice; Runway's new moderation system averages under 0.5 seconds per review; Runway's 'biggest model drop yet' contains zero of its own models across five additions; Higgsfield's console catalog lists 22 models against the '50+' its launch post claims; and California's SB 1000 sits nine days from its constitutional deadline after its sibling bill, SB 1050, was signed into law.

Roundup · Weekly

AI Video Weekly Roundup — September 21, 2026

OpenAI shuts the Sora API for good; Runway, Higgsfield and Pika double down on selling other labs' models the same week; California signs one AI-disclosure bill and leaves the other pending.

SEP 21 · 8 MIN

Six stats from the week: Adobe names four partner models — Veo, Kling, Runway and Luma — in its new Premiere and After Effects tool; Runway's own separate plugin carries a different four-model roster, Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0 Pro and Veo 3.1; California's SB 1000 reached the Governor's desk September 2 and SB 1050 followed September 9, both still unsigned; fal shipped six H3 Max releases in sixteen days; and HiDream-O1-Video debuted at #4 on Artificial Analysis's image-to-video board without a launch announcement.

Roundup · Weekly

AI Video Weekly Roundup — September 14, 2026

Adobe and Runway ship rival generative tools into Premiere and After Effects with different partner-model rosters the same day; California's two AI-disclosure bills get a hard September 30 signing deadline.

SEP 14 · 7 MIN

Six stats on Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Video: it reached general availability August 4, 2026, with BFL's own launch post naming no partner; four aggregators — Runway, Pika, Luma, and fal.ai — absorbed the model within about three weeks, none announced by BFL itself; the company's own About page calls it both 'the frontier AI research lab' and 'foundational infrastructure' in adjacent sentences; FLUX Upscale, its only new capability since launch, is priced $0.07 to $0.10 per megapixel-second and only processes FLUX 3 Video's own output; Artificial Analysis doesn't track FLUX 3 Video at all, leaving Design Arena's #4 ranking — down from BFL's own #2 debut — as the only public number; and Adobe Firefly highlights FLUX among its image partners while Runway, Kling and Luma head its video partner list, with Black Forest Labs absent.

Analysis · Article

Black Forest Labs Calls Itself a Frontier Lab. It Behaves Like Infrastructure.

Black Forest Labs' own About page calls it both a frontier AI research lab and infrastructure for visual intelligence. Four aggregators absorbed its FLUX 3 Video model within a month, and BFL announced none of it — evidence for which description is actually true.

SEP 10 · 5 MIN