New models and features in AI image, video, voice and music generation, from Midjourney, Sora, Veo, Suno and more.
Maket just rolled out Text to Furniture, a new tool that turns text prompts into 3D furniture models. You can describe specific pieces like an oval burl wood dining table, and it creates a scaled 3D model that drops right into your floor plan.
Luma AI just revealed its new Ray 2 video model, extending generation limits from 5 seconds to up to a full minute, with outputs ready in as little as 10 seconds. The startup is also bringing its visual models to Amazon Bedrock and tapping AWS custom silicon to slash compute costs.
Google just launched Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, boosting native video generation to 15 seconds while slashing pricing by 30% to $0.07 per second. The update adds multi-turn conversational editing so you can tweak scenes without regenerating from scratch, alongside tighter reference consistency and realistic lip-sync. Google account users can now generate three 15-second clips every month in Google Vids for free.
OpenAI just launched Images 2.6 across ChatGPT, Codex, and its API, boosting generation speeds by 50% and adding native support for animated GIFs. Developers get two API variants—including the six-second Flare model—plus SVG exports and fine-grained scene complexity controls. It is live now for all subscription tiers.
Microsoft just released MAI Image 2.7, its latest image editing model that debuted at No. 2 on Artificial Analysis and No. 3 on Arena Edit. The update outperforms its predecessor across all evaluated editing tasks, showing the biggest jump in scene and style edits with a 24-Elo lead. Microsoft is rolling out editing first, with text-to-image coming soon.
Alibaba just rolled out commercial Pro and Turbo APIs for Qwen-Image-2.1 on its Model Studio platform. The single 7B model collapses separate design steps by handling generation, 10-image reference edits, native RGBA transparency, and 2K typography. Turbo starts at around $0.014 per image, giving production teams a full pipeline without self-hosting GPUs.
ElevenLabs just rolled out a new batch of crisp default voices across its Speech Synthesis and Projects platforms, built with its professional voice cloning tech. Created in licensed partnerships with voice actors, the update brings sharper audio, new accents like Irish and Italian, and a wider emotional range without ElevenLabs claiming voice copyrights.
Canva just rolled out Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model built with help from its Leonardo.ai acquisition. Instead of basic pixels, Craft generates up to 2K graphics across 30 aspect ratios trained directly on real layouts, allowing designs to instantly convert into fully editable layers via Canva Magic. It is available to all users now in Dream Lab.
Ideogram just launched Vector 1.0, its first dedicated vector AI model. It allows users to generate clean, fully editable SVG files directly from text prompts or convert existing images into scalable vector graphics featuring smooth gradients and sharp typography. The model is live now on Ideogram's web platform and API.
Viggle just introduced JST-2, a physics-native world model that turns text prompts or images into interactive 3D scenes in about one second. It tracks persistent physical tokens across space, allowing generated characters to deform and move naturally without manual rigging. It renders directly in the browser via 3D Gaussian splatting, putting full 3D environment generation within reach for everyone.
OpenAI just briefly exposed three new image models in its API—aurora-red, green, and blue—before quickly pulling them, only for them to surface in blind Arena tests. Early runs show red prioritizing speed while green yields sharper detail, sparking speculation that GPT-Image-3 is around the corner. OpenAI has yet to release documentation or pricing.
Sylvester Stallone just revealed he is exploring a Rambo prequel using AI de-aging tech to turn himself back into an 18-year-old high school kid. Following tests inspired by Harrison Ford's digital makeover in Indiana Jones, Stallone confirmed the tech successfully took him decades back in time. Why it matters: Despite fierce Hollywood pushback against AI, aging legends are increasingly using algorithms to keep their most lucrative franchises alive indefinitely.
Krea just opened the beta for Krea 3, an image editing model that delivers end-to-end 2K edits in under 8 seconds. It matches Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2.5 in quality while introducing bounding box control for multi-turn iterative workflows. A full launch with benchmarks lands next week.
ElevenLabs just rolled out Instant Soundtracks, a new feature that automatically analyzes uploaded footage to generate original music and frame-accurate sound effects. It adapts moods across cuts, lets users reference existing audio tracks, and separates layers for post-editing via web or API.
YouTube Music just started labeling songs created primarily with generative AI, including tracks with synthetic vocals or composition. A tag appears right on the player page, opening a detailed info card when tapped. Why it matters: As synthetic tracks flood streaming platforms, listeners finally get an upfront way to tell human performers from prompt-generated tracks.
Higgsfield AI just tapped GPT-6 Astra to shatter the typical one-minute ceiling, letting creators generate consistent videos over 10 minutes long. Creative agents can now call external 3D modeling tools to solve continuity headaches, and real-time voice-to-movie rendering is already in the works. Generative video is finally moving from short clips to full-blown production workflows.
Alibaba just open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated 7B image generation and editing checkpoint that produces crisp 2K visuals in only 8 denoising steps. It handles both prompt-based generation and natural-language edits without trading away visual quality. The weights are up on Hugging Face and ModelScope alongside official hosted APIs, making high-res local image generation substantially faster.
Midjourney just launched an experimental "Thinking Mode" on its Alpha website to tackle prompt accuracy, typography, and image coherence. Users can trigger it via a "Rerun (Thinking)" button in the job lightbox. Why it matters: reasoning-style processing is finally hitting AI image generation, promising far fewer butchered letters and missed instructions.
Google just rolled out Nano Banana 2.1 across Gemini, AI Studio, and its Flow platform. The update focuses on tighter subject consistency, mask-based micro-edits, and blending up to 14 reference photos at up to 4K resolution. Why it matters: While early hands-on impressions suggest it still trails top-tier frontier models in raw fidelity, Google is handing out dozens of free daily generations on Flow.
Midjourney just updated its Alpha site, adding live style previews directly in the sidebar so you can see aesthetics before burning generation credits. The update also lets users assign default parameters to specific folders, groups multiple style references into a neat thumbnail pill, and eliminates crashes for heavy users with over 100K saved images.
