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.

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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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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

Six stats from the June 8 roundup: Trump signed the AI executive order on June 2 with a voluntary 30-day frontier-model review window and no licensing regime; three organizations claimed 'world model' in 24 hours on June 1 spanning an open-weights model, a coalition press release, and a hiring page; a 291-author arXiv paper documents NVIDIA's open-weights Cosmos 3; xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 launched at $0.08 per second and sits second on the Artificial Analysis Image-to-Video arena behind Seedance 2.0; Black Forest Labs raised $300 million at a $3.25 billion valuation with Martin Scorsese joining as adviser in June 2026; and Singapore's Agnes-Video reset the API price floor to $0.30 per minute.

Roundup · Weekly

AI Video Weekly Roundup — June 8, 2026

Trump signs the long-delayed AI executive order — voluntary, light-touch; three labs claim 'world model' in 24 hours; Grok launches into second on the I2V arena; Scorsese backs Black Forest Labs.

JUN 08 · 8 MIN