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.

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.

A living reference guide to the major AI video generation models, platforms, and open-source tools shaping the industry in 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.