Tag: AI

In this episode, I follow up on a few of my predictions about AI from my recent video: “How AI Will Fail Like The Music Industry.”

Everyone spent the week breaking down Seedance 2.5’s specs — 30-second shots, native 4K, up to 50 references. But at the same event, ByteDance quietly announced something that might matter a lot more: a way to make AI videos with real movies and a real movie star… legally, with the rights-holder actually getting paid.

It’s called Volcano Ark, and the first partner is Stephen Chow’s company, Bingo Group — licensing scenes from King of Comedy, God of Cookery, and CJ7. Unlike the dead Disney–Sora deal (stylized, masked characters only — never the real face), this licenses real likeness AND voice, and even reproduces the original film’s look down to the film stock.

The unlock is the business model: a revenue-share that pays the rights-holder when you generate, or a commercial license you can buy. It’s already quietly live, running on Seedance 2.0 — not even 2.5 yet.

In this one I break down how it actually works, the fine print (free for personal use, commercial use blocked on the spot), why it’s basically the “TikTok music” playbook applied to movies, and whether anyone in the West — realistically only YouTube — could ever pull it off… one very cantankerous mouse permitting.

Seedance and Kling just changed what “fast” can do in AI video. The old “fast, cheap, or good — pick two” rule started cracking this week — Seedance Mini, Kling 3 Turbo, two real-time world models, and Google’s stealth “Instant Ramen” all landed at once.

And no single tool did it alone.

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Mini is the cheap, fast tier that finally stopped being embarrassing. I ran the 15-shot Coda prompt through it, threw Flamethrower Girl at it for the reference-prompt stress test, and used it for Dragon Blue inserts and extra sword-fight coverage. Resolution is lower (1470×630 vs flagship 2206×946) — and Topaz Astra’s Starlight Precise mode closes some of that gap — but for inserts, drafts, and doubling your fight footage at half the price, it holds. Also in the rumor file: Seedance 2.5 is reportedly coming early July (via Testing Catalog) — name unconfirmed.

Kuaishou’s Kling 3 Turbo is basically Kling 3.0 quality at a lower price — and the Twin Peaks FBI-diner test showed no lip-sync drift, which is a bigger deal than it sounds. The Kling Omni upgrade still hasn’t dropped, and Kling 4.0 / 3.5 is still the thing everyone’s waiting on.

Then it gets strange. Alibaba’s Happy Oyster is a real-time, Genie-3-style world model you can actually walk around inside — three minutes free per day. I spent mine at Sunset at Bali Bay, added two kaiju to the ocean, and neither person on the beach seemed remotely concerned. It’s wonky. It’s also kind of remarkable. Maine Coon from Catnip AI is a separate real-time model, reportedly hitting a record 47.5 fps on a single H100 at 9:16 vertical — apply at mainecoon.tech.

Finally, Google quietly planted a stealth image model on LM Arena. The internet dug a Google ID out of the metadata and is calling it Instant Ramen — probably the next “Nano Banana,” probably Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image. “Probably” is doing a lot of work there.

The honest read: AI video isn’t suddenly solved. The cheap tiers are still compromises, real-time is still server-gated and weird, and Instant Ramen is still an unconfirmed leak. But the direction is hard to ignore now — here’s what you can actually use this week, and what’s still just a really good trailer.

Speaking at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 17, the Jeff Bezos pushed back on fears that artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs. Bezos argued that AI will help people identify and solve more problems, ultimately increasing demand for workers. He also outlined his vision for the future of space exploration, including permanent space colonies, off-world manufacturing and moving polluting industries beyond Earth.

Adobe is making more money than ever, so why is Wall Street treating it like the company is dying? While the internet is distracted by a $150 million FTC lawsuit over hidden cancellation fees, a much deeper crisis is threatening the tech giant’s 40-year empire.

Behind the scenes of Adobe’s sliding stock price lies a massive strategic panic, a botched $20 billion merger, and a controversial shift into generative AI that has sparked a historic backlash from creators. The “industry standard” software isn’t just fighting off predatory subscription scandals, it’s actively building an automation ecosystem that could replace the very professionals who keep it alive.

Higgsfield’s MCP and CLI connectors have given Claude full image and video generation capabilities – but can an AI agent make a better film than a real person? Today I gave Claude $500 in Higgsfield AI credits to see who can make the better AI cinematic

Higgsfield AI is a super popular AI tool that lets creators generate images and videos. It’s pretty expensive, and most times creators waste credits on a monthly plan. I built the core components of Higgsfield in this Claude Skill and show off what it can do here in this video.

Higgsfield AI + DaVinci Resolve Just Changed Video Editing Forever! Try Higgsfield inside Davinci

Don’t buy (or sub to) an AI film studio — build one! This is the future workflow of AI filmmaking: a complete production office that lives in one folder on your desktop, and you can download the whole thing free below.

I break down how to build a Claude-powered production system that handles story breakdowns, character reference grids, scene boards, and asset tracking — and, thanks to MCPs, generates shots while you keep working.

This is the full walkthrough of how Paperclip Heart was made, including every mistake, workaround, and weird ring-light bug along the way.

A complete beginner’s guide to Google Gemini in 2026, covering models, notebooks, personal intelligence, image and video generation, Canvas, and usage limits.