Roundup · Weekly

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.

JUN 29 9 MIN ROUNDUP Read the piece →

Six stats from the convergence week: Seedance 2.0 native 4K on three platforms in 24 hours, 387K impressions on Higgsfield's 4K launch, Google's reported $75M investment in A24, Seedance 2.5 previewed at Volcano Engine FORCE with 30-second native clips, HappyHorse-1.1 debuting at Elo 1,153, and Idaho's synthetic-media voyeurism law effective July 1.

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AI Video Stack — 2026

Living Reference · Jun 28, 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 →

This week, further down

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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.

Roundup · Weekly

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.

Roundup · Weekly

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

Flagship · Analysis

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