Video generators from Bytedance - let's figure it out.

1. At the end of last week, a new video generator from Bytedance called Seedance 1.0 burst onto the video arena

It looks great and beats even Veo3. You can't try it in its "pure adult form" yet.

But on the site https://dreamina.capcut.com/ai-tool/home there is Seedance 1.0 Mini version (also known as Video 3.0), 120 credits per day for free

Also yesterday, Fal.ai announced that you can test the Lite version of SeeDance 1.0.

Where and when the "full version" will be available is still unknown.

Minimax Hailuo 02 (0616) - the new king?

I don't know if it coincided with the release of Minimax M1, but suddenly in the video arena in the Image2Video section Minimax Hailuo 02 (0616) climbed to second place. And which Veo3 beats, and by a long shot.

Midjourney: Midjourney Video V1 video generator released.

Works in img-2-video mode. Select a generated image or upload your own and click Animate. Prompt is automatically improved. There is also a manual mode where you can describe what exactly needs to be changed/animated. There is also a “low motion” and “high motion” setting. The first is for static slow frames, the second is for dynamic scenes. You can also extend the video by 4 seconds with a limit of 16 seconds.

The output image is aesthetic, typical for Midjourney. It works well with dynamics, and even seems to be good with anatomy. But there are questions about detail: artifacts and image compression are noticeable. People write that the output is 480p, which is not comparable even to open source generators like Wan and today's Hailuo 02.

The vaunted Seedance, which beats Veo3, was brought to Krea.ai

20 times cheaper than Veo3 and generates in 2 minutes.

However, Krea stubbornly keeps silent about what model it is: Lite or Full.

Chinese Lab MiniMax introduced in this week:

1. open-sourcing LLM MiniMax-M1 — setting new standards in long-context reasoning.

- World’s longest context window: 1M-token input, 80k-token output
- State-of-the-art agentic use among open-source models
- RL at unmatched efficiency: trained with just $534,700.

2. Hailuo 02, World-Class Quality, Record-Breaking Cost Efficiency

- Best-in-class instruction following
- Handles extreme physics
- Native 1080p

3. MiniMax Audio:
- Any prompt, any voice, any emotion
- Fully customizable and multilingual.

4. Hailuo Video Agent in Beta, Vibe Videoing with Zero-touch.

MiniMax plan to achieve end-to-end Hailuo Video Agent via 3 stages:
Stage 1: Prebuilt video Agent templates for high-quality creative videos. Users simply follow instructions and input text or images — with one click, a polished video is generated.
Stage 2: Semi-customizable video Agent. Users gain the flexibility to edit any part of the video creation process, from script to visuals to voiceover.
Stage 3: Fully autonomous, end-to-end video Agent. A complete, intelligent workflow that turns creative input into final-cut video with minimal manual effort.

This summer, team plan to gradually roll out Stage Two of Agent creation tools.

5. MiniMax Agent, a general intelligent agent designed to tackle long-horizon, complex tasks.

From expert-level multi-step planning to flexible task breakdown and end-to-end execution — it’s designed to act like a reliable teammate, with strengths in:

-Programming & tool use
-Multimodal understanding & generation
-Seamless MCP integration

The new Minimax Hailuo 02 has already arrived at Krea.ai.

Minimax

Create Lifelike Audio - the fifth release from Minimax in the last 7 days

Text2Speech, Voice Clonining, Voice Design and even music generation (no miracles here, Suno is the best).

Breaking! New Hailuo Video 02's Beats Google Veo 3 and Kling?

What if the best AI video model right now… wasn’t from Google or OpenAI? There’s a new beast climbing the leaderboard, and it just knocked out Veo 3 and Kling 2.0. This is Hailuo Video 02 — and it's shaking up the whole AI video scene. Let me show you why creators are freaking out.
Get Hailuo 02 here and try their new video agents! 500 credits bonus to new signups!

Get 500 bonus credits https://hailuoai.video/?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=kol&utm_campaign=Vortex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOtM8UE0SKA

Hunyuan GameCraft — a neural game engine from Tencent

It looks a cut above Genie 2 and other competitors, while being much more interactive. It is based on Hunyuan Video, which was tuned using gameplay from more than a hundred AAA projects — Assassin’s Creed, Red Dead Redemption and Cyberpunk 2077. The result is appropriate — some games from the dataset can be easily recognized by the results of model generation.

Suno - WavTool!

is a browser-based DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software that combines professional music production features (VST plugin support, sample-accurate editing, real-time recording, and more) with native AI capabilities such as stem splitting, AI-generated MIDI files, and a built-in chatbot for real-time music editing.

New feature from Kling AI.

Video2Audio.

It seems that even free plans let you try it.

ByteDance has unveiled XVerse, a new text2image model that lets you manipulate multiple people and attributes in a single frame.

You enter a prompt, then adjust each object's personality, pose, style, or lighting without disturbing the rest of the scene.

Under the hood, it uses a history-aware DiT flow modulation pipeline to keep every face and object consistent, even in complex multi-subject layouts.

Sakana AI introduced Inference-Time Scaling and Collective Intelligence for Frontier AI

AB-MCTS, a new inference-time scaling algorithm that enables multiple frontier AI models to cooperate, achieving promising initial results on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark.

AB-MCTS combination of o4-mini + Gemini-2.5-Pro + DeepSeek-R1-0528, current frontier AI models achieves strong performance on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, outperforming individual o4-mini, Gemini-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-R1-0528 models by a large margin.

Many ARC-AGI-2 examples that were unsolvable by any single LLM were solved by combining multiple LLMs. In some cases, an initially incorrect attempt by o4-mini is used by R1-0528 and Gemini-2.5-Pro as a hint to get to the correct solution.

ARC-AGI-2 code.

The Multi-LLM AB-MCTS combination of o4-mini + Gemini-2.5-Pro + DeepSeek-R1-0528, current frontier AI models, achieves strong performance on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, outperforming individual models by a large margin.

Implementation of AB-MCTS on GitHub.

Meanwhile, Krea.ai has released a Video Restyle tool

It looks fancy, but under the hood is just a new video-to-video model from LumaLabs.

This is the Minimax Hailuo 02. It looks like it's been fed every sports report since 1896.

Baidu MuseSteamer

Another video generator.

It is deeply hidden in the Chinese jungle of a Chinese website and application.
It is called MuseSteamer - it can do 10 seconds (small ones on the website are 5), 1080P, any aspects, it is available in Turbo (available in beta now), Lite, Pro variations.

The main feature is Chinese lip sync (although the videos on the website are silent).

This is a development from Baidu

Judging by the examples, the quality of the model is the last generation. But on their website they also have a note that this is Model 1.0.

In general, we are waiting for them to go beyond China.

P.S. Does it seem to me alone that there are already more basic video models than basic models for generating images?