Hyperion 2.5:

Topaz has released Hyperion 2.5 — an SDR→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 Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup has already used it to convert GenAI footage to 10-bit ProRes before heavy color work and reduce visible banding.

It can’t recover data that never existed — this is AI reconstruction, essentially a smart HDR remaster, not camera RAW.

There are still some 16-bit EXR color-management issues, but it’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.

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.

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🚨 OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra — 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.
It’s also OpenAI’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 “smart assistant” to something you can increasingly delegate entire workflows to.

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 that’s it… we’re done.

Viggle is back with an open model — Viggle-Animate — and it’s pretty damn capable.

For the first time, they’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.

It’s 6× 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 isn’t public yet.
Also, you can’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

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 though… are you getting it?

FLUX.3 Video Edit model

It can take an existing video and, based on a prompt, change objects, characters, backgrounds, materials, text, effects, and even events within the scene. You can also change dialogue and translate conversations with lip sync.

The biggest bombshell: $0.03 per second. Dirt cheap!

So:

5 sec — $0.15
10 sec — $0.30
15 sec — $0.45

But.

It currently works with clips up to 15 seconds, and input videos above 720p are downscaled before processing. No masks, additional references, or resolution selection yet.

In short:

max. 15 sec
max. 50 MiB
up to 720p in the edit pipeline
24 fps
no seed control
apparently no output resolution or duration control (need to dig into this)
no masks
no additional reference images
no video-only motion/style reference
not an extension model — continuing a clip requires FLUX 3 Video Continuation

You can run the result through FLUX Video Upscale separately, up to 4K — but that’s extra $$$.

Google just dropped Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking.

Gemini 3.8 Live is fast voice-to-voice, understands video/images almost in real time, and automatically switches between 97 languages.
(Siri still has ONE.)

It can call tools and APIs in the background without interrupting the conversation.

Extended Thinking is the version for complex tasks: it can reason and speak simultaneously, handle multi-step processes, and verbally comment on its progress.

There’s a Gemini API and AI Studio.
Extended Thinking is also coming to Gemini Live, Docs, Gmail, and Keep.

API pricing is the same for 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking:

Input audio — $0.005/min
Output audio — $0.018/min
Video/image input — around $0.002/min
Text — $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $4.50 per 1M output tokens, including thinking tokens.

Google wants to turn Gemini Live from a “voice chat” into a full-fledged realtime agent that can see, think, talk, and do things in parallel through tools.

Buttery-smooth 120 FPS Three.js arena action, running entirely in your browser. Meet Arena Shooter.

4.6 BILLION Astra tokens burned.

20+ vehicles to capture, zombies, day/night combat, 20+ upgrades & perks, and LLM bots trying to destroy you.

No signup. No install. Just open and fight.

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