Google DeepMind reconstructs and discloses Pelé's lost goal; Runway's customers price the production thesis; Higgsfield nears $5B; a new benchmark scores direction, not generation.
Netflix discloses ~300 titles used generative AI in 2026 production; Cannes hands its first AI Craft prize to Google over Kling; Gemini Omni Flash confirms #1 on Artificial Analysis.
Kuaishou's Kling closes a ~$3B round at an $18B valuation, the largest ever for a video-AI firm; five vendors ship assembly-layer products; Meta previews Muse Video, already #3 on Design Arena.
Two people, two toolchains, one conclusion in the same month: generating the scene was never the hard part. The moat is everything after it — timing, continuity, captions, assembly, and iterating cheaply toward a target.
The most current comparison of AI video software in 2026 — Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Grok Imagine 1.5, Luma Ray 3.2, Runway, HappyHorse and more. Updated every week as models launch and pricing changes.
