Alibaba launches Happy Oyster world model for 3D environments. Wan 2.7 brings Thinking Mode to open-source video. SkyReels V4 ships joint audio-video. Grok Imagine Pro teases 1080p.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most current comparison of AI video generation tools in 2026 — Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Runway, Luma, HappyHorse and more. Updated every week as models launch and pricing changes.

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.

How generative AI, automation, and new tools from Microsoft, Google, and others reshaped business workflows in 2024.