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🎨 Image & Video Generation

Generative AI for images, video, and creative media — Sora, DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and more.

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Newsmarket trends

Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades

Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most don't convert that spike into revenue. techcrunch.com

Newsimage generation models

Image Generation Models

Imagen 4 - Imagen 4 enters the generative AI space as an advanced image model focused on producing higher-quality visuals with improved detail, typography,... trendhunter.com

Newsmarket trends

Image generation features supercharge AI app downloads

Image AI ignites app charts: Visual tools catapult apps up the ranks, but AI firms' eyes on enterprise deals leave consumer AI's future up in the air. emarketer.com

Newsmultimodal AI models

Microsoft's new AI models go beyond just text

Microsoft is doubling down on AI models that aren't large language models. The company announced on Thursday that it's releasing three new models: brand new... msn.com

Newsmarket trends

AI-image generation tools boost app installs, surpassing ChatGPT, Gemini chatbot updates

New image-generation models are reshaping the AI app market, driving significantly more downloads than traditional updates. A report by Appfigures shows... firstpost.com

NewsGoogle AI image/video tools

Google TV brings Gemini image and video creation to the living room

Google TV adds Gemini-powered image and video tools, Google Photos voice search and remixing, and a YouTube Shorts row coming to U.S. home screens this... ppc.land

Researchdeepfake detection

Deepfake Detection Dataset Aims to Keep Up With Generative AI

With the rise of AI-generated content online, it's becoming more difficult—and more important—to help the public identify whether an image, audio clip or... spectrum.ieee.org

NewsAI-generated video misinformation

AI-Generated Video Does Not Show U.S. Soldiers Captured by Iranian Forces

Social media users have circulated a video claiming to show new footage of U.S. soldiers captured by Iranian forces. misbar.com

Launchtext-to-video API

Wan 2.7 Text-to-Video API: Balancing High-Fidelity Output with $0.08/sec Efficiency

Explore how the Wan 2.7 Video API, accessible via Kie.ai, balances high-fidelity 1080P output with industry-leading efficiency starting at $0.08/sec. moderndiplomacy.eu

NewsSora shutdown / OpenAI-Disney deal

OpenAI shuts down Sora video app as Disney scraps $1 billion deal

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video-generation app, bringing an abrupt end to a major Hollywood push and a planned $1 billion investment from Disney. msn.com

NewsGoogle video generation

Google is testing new Omni model for video generation ahead of I/O

Google may introduce a new Gemini video-generation tool called Omni, as hinted by new UI leaks ahead of I/O 2026. testingcatalog.com

NewsAI video impact on filmmaking

AI is changing how directors and cinematographers work—but not the way you might think

For all the buzz about AI-generated video, it isn't upending the lives of cinematographers yet. But AI tools are helping them work smarter. fastcompany.com

NewsAI-generated video/images use cases

Christian Creators Outsource AI Bible Videos to Fiverr

The Verge reports that demand for AI-generated Bible videos is high and that many Christian content creators are buying low-cost, AI-produced images and... letsdatascience.com

Launchmultimodal embeddings

Building with Gemini Embedding 2: Agentic multimodal RAG and beyond

This blog post explores the general availability of Gemini Embedding 2, a unified multimodal model that maps text, images, video, and audio into a single... developers.googleblog.com

LaunchAI image/video generation on Google TV

Now, Gemini on Google TV lets you edit images, create videos, and more

Google has rolled out Gemini-powered updates for Google TV, adding image editing, video creation, and Shorts feed, with initial availability limited to... business-standard.com

NewsAI image/video generation on Google TV

Google adds AI image & video generation and more tools to Google TV

It also plans plans to add a Short videos for you section to the Google TV home screen later that will provide a personalised feed of short-form videos,... socialsamosa.com

NewsAI video generation tools

How to Generate Story Videos from Text and Images in Minutes

In order to create video stories in the past, people had to go through several steps of editing and even spend hours on that process. markets.financialcontent.com

NewsAI image/video generation on Google TV

Google TV Adds Gemini AI Tools and YouTube Shorts Row

Google is rolling out a set of AI-powered features and a new short-form video row for Google TV devices. In an official blog post, Google announced a Gemini... letsdatascience.com

Launchmultimodal AI model with video understanding

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Powers Multimodal Agent Reasoning in a Single Efficient Open Model

Agentic systems often reason across screens, documents, audio, video, and text within a single perception‑to‑action loop. However, they still rely on... developer.nvidia.com

Newstext-to-video model rankings

Text-to-video generation: leading AI models 2026

In April 2026, dreamina-seedance-2.0-720p was ranked as the best text-to-video AI creator, achieving an overall score of ***** points on the Arena... statista.com