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.
Gemini Omni Flash hit public preview and was inside Higgsfield's MCP in 38 minutes; HeyGen, Higgsfield, and Runway fight it out at the workflow layer; Idaho's law goes live as Arizona vetoes AI bills.
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.
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.
