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ISSUE 26 A publication on AI video.Written for people who already know what Sora is. JUN 29 · 2026
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AI Video Weekly Roundup — June 29, 2026

ByteDance previewed Seedance 2.5 at FORCE and confirmed 4K for 2.0; three platforms distributed it in 24 hours; Runway declared itself an aggregator; Google DeepMind invested in A24; HappyHorse-1.1 debuted at #2.

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Infographic with six data points for June 22, 2026: Grok Imagine 1.5 reached general availability June 16, audio-native at a single $0.08-per-second rate and still 720p-capped; Kling 3.0 Turbo launched across seven partner platforms day one; Higgsfield Seedance Unlimited drew 1.32 million impressions at launch; ByteDance priced Seedance mini at two cents per second for emerging markets; Dreamina Seedance 2.0 leads Image-to-Video with-audio at Elo 1,194 with Grok Imagine 1.5 second at Elo 1,113; Luma shipped Skills for Luma Agents on June 18.
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AI Video Weekly Roundup — June 22, 2026

Grok Imagine 1.5 reaches general availability — audio-native at $0.08/sec, still 720p-capped; Kling answers with a Turbo tier across seven platforms; Higgsfield locks exclusive unlimited Seedance via ByteDance's cloud; Luma makes agentic workflows portable.

JUN 22 · 8 MIN
Six stats from the week of June 6–12, 2026: Higgsfield ships 5 platform integrations in 12 days, Washington raises deepfake civil penalties to $3,000, Grok Imagine 1.5 settles from debut Elo 1,404 to 1,326, India's Varya charges $0.005 per second, Varya is reported as a 14B-parameter model, and Cosmos3-Super leads open-weight I2V at Elo 1,251.
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AI Video Weekly Roundup — June 15, 2026

Higgsfield ships five platform integrations in 12 days; Washington extends personality rights to AI deepfakes; India's Varya enters the market at $0.005 per second.

JUN 15 · 7 MIN
Mode A analysis infographic, 'The Model Was the Product. Now the Agent Is.': six tiles arranged 3×2. Card 1 — '5' agents shipped by five vendors (Luma, Adobe, Pika, Runway, Higgsfield). Card 2 (accent) — '10 weeks' from Luma Agents (March 5) to Higgsfield Supercomputer (mid-May). Card 3 — '6' video models Pika Agents orchestrates (Kling, Veo 3, Seedance 2.0, MiniMax, Sora API, Pika). Card 4 — '2' single-vendor agents (Adobe, Runway) vs. three multi-vendor. Card 5 (accent) — '0' agent-to-agent calls — agents call models, not other agents. Card 6 — 'Opus 4.8' the LLM backbone Higgsfield swapped into its orchestrator, itself a commodity.
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The Model Was the Product. Now the Agent Is.

Five vendors shipped a conversational orchestration layer on top of the AI-video models in ten weeks. The agent now picks the model — which means the model is becoming the commodity.

JUN 11 · 9 MIN
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The AI Video Stack, 2026.

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.

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