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Try New RIFTFALL Demo!

Sixty minutes. No level locks, no "first three maps then buy it." The whole game is unlocked โ€” twenty arenas, six weapons, every boss that wants you dead. The only thing counting down is you.

Grab the Breacher. Grab the Vulcan, the Arc Rail, the Flamer. Kill a dragon. Kill a tripod the size of a cathedral. Ride a train. Get eaten by something in the dark and try again, faster.

When the clock hits zero, it stops. What you did with the hour is on you.

Hell was a cakewalk. This is the main course.

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Grok Video 1.5 vs. Seedance 2.5.
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Guys! AI Video wars are on!

FLUX 3 Video is here, and this could be Seedance 2.5โ€™s biggest rival yet. It generates up to 20-second videos in native 1080p with audio, multilingual dialogue, text-to-video, image-to-video, multiple frames, and video continuation. I made this Riftfall trailer with it, and honestly, the cinematic quality looks wild. FLUX 3 is available now through the API and open weights coming soon. Could this beat Seedance 2.5?
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Wan 3.0 is here! ๐Ÿš€

In short: Alibaba has officially launched the public beta of Wan 3.0. The new model can generate videos with audio up to 30 seconds long in 480p, 720p, and 1080p.

New features also include automatic duration selection, video continuation, and improved consistency of characters, objects, and scenes across longer clips.

https://article.9466.com/news/aKweEQlm

API pricing:

480p โ€” around $0.04 per second

720p โ€” around $0.08 per second

1080p โ€” around $0.17 per second

That means a maximum 30-second video costs approximately $1.25 at 480p, $2.50 at 720p, and around $5 at 1080p.

But thereโ€™s a catch: when using a video reference, Alibaba charges not only for the generated output but also for the duration of the uploaded reference video.

The formula is: input video + generated video.

For example, a 10-second reference combined with a 30-second 1080p output would cost approximately $6.70.
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LTX fires back with LTX-2.5 โ€” a new open 22B video/audio world model.

Highlights: better motion quality, improved prompt understanding, native multishot with character/voice consistency, 4K HDR, RAW workflow, and precise video editing.

The big flex is speed + local inference: 16 GB VRAM minimum, ComfyUI support, open weights, and 10s I2V in 6.8s on 2ร— GB200.

LTX also published comparisons vs H3, Seedance, Kling, Veo and Grok โ€” and Reddit is already roasting the methodology.

Marketing or not, this one is worth testing.
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Dreamina just added Seedance 2.5 in 1080p ๐Ÿš€

Using the current exchange rate, the pricing comes out to roughly:

โ‰ˆ $0.95 per second

So a 30-second video costs around $28.50โ€“$30.90.

In short: a good working estimate for Seedance 2.5 1080p right now is about $0.95/sec, or roughly $29โ€“31 for 30 seconds.
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Hyperion 2.5:

Topaz has released Hyperion 2.5 โ€” an SDRโ†’HDR model aimed at 8-bit AI video. Instead of simply repacking footage into 10-bit, it reconstructs additional luminance and color information and outputs 10-bit ProRes, H.265, or 16-bit EXR.

This matters because heavily compressed 8-bit GenAI footage quickly falls apart during aggressive grading, compositing, or HDR work. Hyperion processes it before grading, making it behave more like a high-bit-depth source.

Darren Aronofskyโ€™s Primordial Soup has already used it to convert GenAI footage to 10-bit ProRes before heavy color work and reduce visible banding.

It canโ€™t recover data that never existed โ€” this is AI reconstruction, essentially a smart HDR remaster, not camera RAW.

There are still some 16-bit EXR color-management issues, but itโ€™s a promising step toward making GenAI footage more suitable for high-end post. Hyperion 2.5 is available in Topaz Video, locally or via cloud rendering.
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Competition is great.

It looks like OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to see who can suck up to users harder, just to keep them from jumping off their train and hopping onto the competitorโ€™s.

OpenAI went ahead and dropped API prices for SOL 5.6 by 20% for a whole THREE months.

Anthropic was like: fine, weโ€™re extending the increased weekly Claude Code limits through August 31.

Users: message received, keep it coming. Ox Alpha is completely free anyway, so weโ€™ll be waiting for even more concessions.
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MiniMax H3 Max: 36x faster โ€” and the weights are going open

Regular MiniMax H3 in Minimax Design cloud vs H3 Max on fal.

Same settings: 15 sec, 720p.

H3 took around 6 minutes. H3 Max took around 10 seconds.

Thatโ€™s roughly 36x faster, with comparable quality to my eye.

Important caveat: this is not a clean model benchmark. These are different production stacks. Still, 36x is almost certainly not just โ€œmore GPUsโ€.

Big news:

fal confirmed H3 Max weights will be released.

Asked whether Ref2V will also be open:

โ€œyes, working on it.โ€

So we may get an open H3 Max checkpoint, and later Ref2V too.

The key question: how much of that speed is in the model, and how much in falโ€™s stack?

I wouldnโ€™t expect H3 Max to run 36x faster locally.

The gain likely comes from fewer sampling steps, optimized attention, fused CUDA/Triton kernels, mixed precision, parallelism, VAE and memory optimizations.

Part of the speed is in the weights, part is in falโ€™s infrastructure.

That ratio will matter most after release.
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THIS is WILD.

Not another candle, not another skincare bottle. I am building a full launch kit for a futuristic smart ring inside Lovart with Seedance 2.5.
Lovart is not just a video generator. It is an AI design agent, so I start with one brief: matte graphite smart ring, holographic charging case, neon blue interface, luxury tech launch, 30-second hero video, posters, and social ads.

Try Lovart here

Watch full video https://www.tiktok.com/@web3.world.yt/video/7680504360232701205
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๐Ÿšจ OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra โ€” and this feels like more than just another model upgrade.
Astra is built not only to answer questions, but to actually do work: coding, browsing, research, documents, and complex multi-step tasks.
Some standout numbers: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 100% on ExploitBench, a 1.05M-token context window, and up to 128K output tokens.
Itโ€™s also OpenAIโ€™s first model to reach Critical cyber capability, meaning it can potentially discover and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities with the right tools.
The bigger story is the shift itself: AI is moving from โ€œsmart assistantโ€ to something you can increasingly delegate entire workflows to.
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GPT-6 Astra: messy rollout, resets, and Plus segregation

Three updates: one okay, one very good, one very bad.
OpenAI has revealed the limits. $200 Pro gets 200 Astra messages/week. The new $100 Pro gets 50/week, shared with GPT-5.6 Sol Pro. Business Standard gets 15/month, Premium 50/week. So Astra isnโ€™t unlimited even on $200 Pro.
Good news: OpenAI says it will compensate rollout delays. For every day Astra is unavailable on a paid account, users get one banked reset to use later
Bad news for Plus: OpenAIโ€™s latest help article says, โ€œIt is not included with ChatGPT Plus in Chat.โ€ Astra appears in regular Chat as GPT-6 Pro only on Pro $100, Pro $200, Business, and Enterprise
Meanwhile, the launch page still says Astra is coming to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. Where Plus gets access is unclear. Maybe Work or Codex?? Current docs confirm Astra there only for Pro
So: Astra limits are known, but Plus users waiting for it in regular ChatGPT appear out of luck for now. Codex access for Plus is unclear too
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So, how are the modelers doing with the new horsepower?

Or rather, with the new Astra.

Blender MCP + Astra + a bit of Computer Use: feed it a sketch of a steam locomotive, and a few minutes later you get 3,295 objects.

https://x.com/tomkrcha/status/2095756085890310311

I think thatโ€™s itโ€ฆ weโ€™re done.
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Viggle is back with an open model โ€” Viggle-Animate โ€” and itโ€™s pretty damn capable.

For the first time, theyโ€™re releasing weights + code.

It replaces characters in video using MiniMax H3. Take a video, grab one frame, manually redraw the character as anything you want, and the model propagates that replacement through the entire clip while preserving motion, camera, and timing.

No pose skeleton, segmentation, face tracking, depth, or text prompt. Just the video + one modified frame.

Under the hood: a 33.1B MiniMax H3 ref2va fine-tune + DMD2 LoRA. Distillation brings it down to 4 sampling steps.

Itโ€™s 6ร— faster than Wan2.2-Animate-14B.

The catch: hardware. BF16 needs ~62 GiB for the transformer and peaks at ~80.1 GiB VRAM. They recommend 96 GB+ or CPU offload. It reportedly runs on a 32 GB RTX 5090 via NVFP4, but that quant isnโ€™t public yet.
Also, you canโ€™t use a normal character portrait. The reference has to be a frame from the original video, already redrawn as the target character.
https://viggle.ai/h3
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New iPhone 18 Pro is finally here. Bigger battery, A20 Pro, vapor chamber, 48MP camera, and finally Siri might actually be GOOD.

That cherry color thoughโ€ฆ are you getting it?
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