DesignGemini Omni 1.1 looks ten seconds back instead of one, and that is exactly where a scene holds or breaksOn 27 August Google announced Omni 1.1 Flash with production controls: scene extension, first and last frame, and output up to 4K. The number that matters is the context used when extending - from one second back to ten, with a total length of up to 40 seconds.DesignWan 3.0 makes 30 seconds of video in a single pass, with no stitchingAlibaba's new video model is live in ComfyUI. It gives up to 30 seconds at once, up to twenty reference assets, and a way to address each of them by name inside the prompt itself.DesignFLUX Upscale regenerates video up to 4K and fixes the blurred facesBlack Forest Labs shipped an upscaler for video: you feed it a recording from 480p up, it hands it back enlarged 1.5, 2 or 3 times, up to native 4K. Two modes, a price per megapixel-second, only through the API and the playground. No benchmarks.DesignA London studio builds identities with code and calls it materialStudio Dial builds visual systems with generative code: the motion of mixing a cocktail becomes the pattern in the menu, and every drink gets its own image. Their code is material in a designer's hand, not a machine drawing instead of them.DesignA typeface that tells the human one thing and the machine anotherDecoy Font hides two messages in the same letters: a human reads one, a language model reads the other. It's built on an optical illusion decades old. The author himself says the trick may not last long.DesignRunway shipped one API for all of its media modelsAdobe, ElevenLabs and Figma now go through the same single door. Runway announced Runway Dev - a platform with one API to all of its models for image, video, audio and live real-time characters.DesignAI video in a single pass: 30 seconds with no stitching30 seconds of video, all at once, with no stitching clips together. This is what Seedance 2.5 does, made by ByteDance. It accepts up to 50 references (image, video, audio) so you can control the result. The official pages don't mention 4K: the plans list 480p, 720p and 1080p.
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