What Was Sora — and Why Did OpenAI Shut It Down?
OpenAI's AI video app went from viral hit to shutdown in about a year. Here's what Sora was, how it worked, and why the company pulled it.
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AI video generation covers models and tools that create or edit moving footage from text, images, or other video — from short clips to full scenes. This hub tracks the leading systems, their capabilities and limits, and how filmmakers, marketers, and platforms are putting them to use.
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AI Video Startup Higgsfield Raises $400M at $5.4B Valuation
Higgsfield closed a $400 million Series B led by DST Global, quadrupling its valuation to $5.4 billion in eight months as its AI video tools hit $700 million in annualized revenue.
Read more →Mirage Launches an AI-Generated 24-Hour News Network on X
Video-AI startup Mirage aired a full day of news on X anchored entirely by AI-generated hosts reading licensed Reuters stories, testing whether audiences trust anchors that don't exist.
Read more →xAI Adds 1080p and Voice Cloning to Grok Imagine Video
xAI has upgraded its Grok Imagine Video model with native 1080p output, text-to-video generation, and new reference tools that keep a character's face and voice consistent across scenes.
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What Is AI Video Generation — and How Does It Work?
AI video generation turns a text prompt or photo into moving footage using diffusion transformer models. Here's how the technology actually works, and where you can try it.
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What Is FLUX — and How Do You Use It?
FLUX is Black Forest Labs' family of AI image and video models, usable through a free browser Playground, a paid API, or open-weight downloads. Here's what it is and how to try it.
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What Is a Diffusion Model — and How Do AI Images Get Made?
Diffusion models create images, video, and audio by starting from random noise and removing it step by step, guided by a prompt — here's the mechanism behind Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Sora.
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Google Launches Gemini Omni Flash for Conversational AI Video Editing
Google has released Gemini Omni Flash in public preview, a multimodal AI model that generates and edits short videos through natural-language conversation, available via the Gemini API at $0.10 per second of output.
Read more →What Can AI Do for Video Creators? Tools, Use Cases, and How to Get Started
AI video tools can now generate clips from text, remove objects, change styles, and cut raw footage automatically — here is what each leading tool does, what it costs, and where to start.
Read more →Google Launches Gemini Omni Flash, Its First Conversational Video Editing Model
Google released Gemini Omni Flash on June 30 — a video model that generates and edits clips through natural-language commands — alongside Nano Banana 2 Lite, an ultra-fast image generator at $0.034 per thousand images.
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