AI Video Weekly Roundup — April 11, 2026
Alibaba's stealth video model tops the global leaderboard. Seedance 2.0 lands in US CapCut. TAKE IT DOWN Act gets its first conviction. Google cuts Veo 3.1 Fast pricing.
Weekly Roundup
Every Friday, RCTV publishes a concise briefing on the week’s most significant AI video and media developments. Each roundup covers new model releases and updates, platform launches, industry business moves, and regulatory developments — with a “Why it matters” take on each story.
For full specs, pricing, and access details on every model we cover, see the AI Video Generation Tools 2026 reference page, updated alongside each roundup.
AI Video Weekly Roundup — April 4, 2026
Google floods both the consumer and developer tiers with free Veo access. Meta shows the first real monetization model for AI video at scale. Sora counts down.
AI Video Weekly Roundup — March 27, 2026
OpenAI kills Sora and the Disney deal dies with it. Seedance 2.0 goes global minus the US. Luma drops Ray 3.14. Washington's copyright fight gets a new fault line.
AI Video Weekly Roundup — March 20, 2026
Runway demos sub-100ms video on Vera Rubin at GTC, NVIDIA resets the AI infrastructure ceiling, DLSS 5 sets sights on Hollywood, and a Senate bill declares AI training not fair use.
AI Video Weekly Roundup — March 13, 2026
Sora 1 retires as OpenAI eyes ChatGPT integration, Runway launches real-time avatar API, Luma Agents bring agentic creative workflows to ad agencies, and NVIDIA pushes local 4K video to RTX PCs at GDC.
AI Video Weekly Roundup — March 6, 2026
Seedance 2.0 Pro leaks past the Great Firewall, Grok Imagine gets video extension, Google Flow absorbs Whisk and ImageFX, and Hollywood's copyright crackdown freezes ByteDance's global rollout.
AI Video Weekly Roundup — February 28, 2026
Seedance 2.0 rattles Hollywood, Google Flow gets a major overhaul, Kling 3.0 hits 4K, NVIDIA pushes local AI video to the desktop, and the deepfake regulation wave accelerates.