Media generation: everything we have
Every media generation event we have logged, with sources, in one place.
42 events (27 after June 2026), 22 models, 13 videos, 20 posts. Latest event 19 October 2026.
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Key moments
- Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3: one model for images, 20-second video with audio, and robot actionsGermany’s Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3 on 2026-07-23, a multimodal flow model jointly trained on images, video, audio and action prediction; it is BFL’s first video model (clips up to 20 s with synced audio) and…
- Google unveils Gemini Omni, an any-to-any model that generates and conversationally edits videoGemini Omni, announced at I/O on 19 May 2026, is Google’s first “any-to-any” model family: Gemini Omni Flash takes text, images, audio and video in one prompt and outputs physics-aware video that can be edited…
- OpenAI launches Sora 2 and the Sora social appOpenAI released Sora 2, a video-and-audio generation model with improved physical realism and synchronized dialogue, alongside an invite-only iOS social app featuring ‘cameos’ of users’ own likeness; the app quickly…
- Google’s Veo 3 generates video with native audioAnnounced at Google I/O 2025, Veo 3 generated video with synchronized sound effects, ambient noise and dialogue from text prompts, producing clips that went viral for their realism.
- OpenAI previews Sora, a text-to-video ‘world simulator’OpenAI previewed Sora, a diffusion-transformer model generating up to a minute of high-fidelity video from text, framing video generation as a path toward general-purpose simulators of the physical world.
- DALL·E 2 brings photorealistic text-to-image generationOpenAI’s DALL·E 2 used a diffusion decoder conditioned on CLIP embeddings to generate high-resolution, photorealistic images from text, kicking off 2022’s image-generation boom alongside Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
- OpenAI unveils DALL·E and CLIPDALL·E generated images from text prompts using a 12B-parameter Transformer, and CLIP learned joint image–text representations from 400M image-caption pairs; CLIP became a key component of later diffusion image…
2026
- fal and Black Forest Labs release FLUX 3 Max, a post-trained video model that makes a 10-second 720p clip in about 12 seconds
- Three unannounced OpenAI ‘aurora’ models briefly appear in the API and then in Arena image tests, possibly GPT-Image-3 (leak, unconfirmed)
- Krea releases Krea 3, an image-editing model it says is 4× faster and about half the price of Nano Banana Pro (open beta)
- Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B open-weights image generation and editing modelOn Oct 15, 2026 Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter open-weights model for text-to-image, image editing and multi-reference generation (up to 10 reference images) with native 4K output and…
- YouTube Music starts labelling AI-made tracks and Deezer builds a filter to hide them, as over half of Deezer’s daily uploads are AI-generatedOn Oct 14, 2026 YouTube Music began showing labels on tracks made with generative AI, in three tiers declared by the distributor (“Fully Gen AI”, “Partly Gen AI”, “No Gen AI”), shown on the player page and coming to the…
- ShengShu releases Vidu Q4 Preview: 4K, 10-bit video up to 16 s with 15 reference images and 3 voice references, at a launch price from RMB 0.09 per second
- Nieman Lab: ChatGPT images carry real New Yorker cartoonists’ signatures, including Brendan Loper’s ‘BLOPER’
- Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image model (based on Gemini 3.6 Flash) at about half the per-image price of Nano Banana 2On 6 Oct 2026 Google made Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1) generally available in the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini app. Its model card says it is based on Gemini 3.6 Flash. Image output costs $30 per 1M…
- Instagram adds a Meta AI song creator to DMs: type lyrics, pick a genre, send an AI-generated song
- Suno launches Speech (public beta): spoken voice plus background music generated in one track
- Tavus unveils Griffin, a real-time face-to-face video model it says is the first to pass a ‘video Turing test’ (48% thought it was human)Tavus announced Griffin, a full-duplex video-to-video “Human Interaction Model” that watches and listens while it talks, can interrupt and be interrupted, and reacts to gestures and objects on camera. In Tavus’s own…
- Utopai Studios launches its PAI production platform and Utopai X video model, #2 on Artificial Analysis’ text-to-video board
- HeyGen releases HeyGen Video 1, a text/image/reference-to-video model with dialogue and sound, at $0.01 per second at launch
- Kuaishou’s Kling unveils Kling 4.0: 30-second clips, 10 keyframes, ahead of possible HK listingKling AI, Kuaishou’s video-generation spinoff, unveiled Kling 4.0 on 2026-09-28: it doubles maximum clip length to 30 seconds, accepts more than a dozen reference inputs (text, images, video) and up to 10 keyframes; a…
- Tencent Hunyuan releases Hy Image 3.5 preview, an image model priced at ¥0.15 per 2K image
- ElevenLabs Studio 4.0 turns ElevenCreative into an agentic AI video editor
- Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weights image generation and editing model with native transparencyOn Sept 20, 2026 Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1 with open weights: a unified text-to-image and image-editing model whose visual generator has just 7B parameters (32 single-stream DiT layers). It natively…
- ElevenLabs releases Music v2.5ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 (music_v2_5) on 2026-09-11, its most advanced text-to-music model. It has richer melodies and more live-sounding instruments, was preferred over v2 in a blind test of 47,885 pairs, and is…
- Suno launches v6, its first music models trained on licensed musicOn 2026-09-09 Suno launched the v6 family (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini), trained from scratch on music licensed from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe with revenue sharing, and retired all older models; Sony Music and…
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with Sketch, plus GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst in the APIOn Sept 8, 2026 OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, a new image model that it says gives sharper detail, keeps subjects from reference photos more faithfully, edits more precisely over many turns, and cuts latency by up…
- Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash in Foundry; MAI-Image-2.6 debuts at No. 2 on Arena
- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds scene extension, frame interpolation and 4K upscalingGoogle made Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (`gemini-omni-1.1-flash`) generally available on 27 Aug 2026, adding scene extension up to 40 s, first/last-frame interpolation, 1080p and 4K output, and cheap 360p drafts; Adobe…
- Alibaba launches Wan 3.0: closed-weight video model with 30-second 1080p clips, native audio and document or web-page inputsOn Aug 24, 2026 Alibaba Cloud made Wan 3.0 generally available on Model Studio: up to 30-second clips at up to 1080p in one pass, native sound and multilingual voices, and inputs from text, images, audio, video, PDFs…
- Lightricks releases LTX-2.5, a 22B open-weights audio-video ‘world model’ with multishot generation and up to 4K outputOn Aug 11, 2026 Lightricks released LTX-2.5, a 22B-parameter open-weights model that generates synchronized video and audio from text, images or video, keeps characters and voices consistent across cuts (multishot), and…
- ByteDance releases Seedance 2.5: 30-second one-take audio-video clips with up to 50 references; a 4K film-production version follows on Oct 23On July 31, 2026 ByteDance Seed released Seedance 2.5, a joint audio-video generation model that makes a 30-second clip with synced sound in one pass (up from 15 s) and takes up to 30 images, 10 video clips and 10 audio…
- Google launches Lyria 3.5 music model in Flow Music; Gemini API GA followsGoogle DeepMind released Lyria 3.5, its third Lyria model in about five months, first in Google Flow Music, with better melodies, lyrics, more natural vocals and tempo/duration control; it became generally available in…
- Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3: one model for images, 20-second video with audio, and robot actionsGermany’s Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3 on 2026-07-23, a multimodal flow model jointly trained on images, video, audio and action prediction; it is BFL’s first video model (clips up to 20 s with synced audio) and…
- Gemini Omni Flash opens to developers via the Gemini API
- ElevenLabs Dubbing v2: direct speech-to-speech dubbing in 90+ languagesOn 2026-05-28 ElevenLabs introduced Dubbing v2, which conditions directly on the original speech instead of an ASR-translate-TTS pipeline, so emotion and performance carry across 90+ languages. The API followed in…
- Google unveils Gemini Omni, an any-to-any model that generates and conversationally edits videoGemini Omni, announced at I/O on 19 May 2026, is Google’s first “any-to-any” model family: Gemini Omni Flash takes text, images, audio and video in one prompt and outputs physics-aware video that can be edited…
- Suno v5.5 lets users sing with their own cloned voice and fine-tune personal models
- OpenAI shuts down Sora: app and web closed April 26, API on Sept 24, 2026; Disney’s $1B deal falls throughOn March 24, 2026 OpenAI announced it was “saying goodbye” to Sora, its AI video app launched six months earlier with Sora 2. The web and app experiences closed on April 26, 2026 and the Sora API on Sept 24, 2026, with…
- Midjourney V8 alpha: rebuilt GPU-native model, ~5x faster, native 2K
- Google launches Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Nano Banana 2 — technically Gemini 3.1 Flash Image — launched on 26 Feb 2026, combining Nano Banana Pro quality with Flash speed; it became the default image model across the Gemini app, AI Mode, Lens, Ads and Flow and…
- Google launches Lyria 3: song generation with vocals in the Gemini appGoogle put Lyria 3 into the Gemini app, letting adults generate 30-second songs with vocals and auto-written lyrics from text, photos or videos in 8 languages, all SynthID-watermarked; on 2026-03-25 Lyria 3 Pro added…
- Kling 3.0: unified multimodal video model with native audio and multi-shot ‘AI Director’Kuaishou launched Kling 3.0 on 2026-02-05, a rebuilt unified multimodal architecture that generates up to 15-second clips with native audio and lip-sync, and can compose up to 6 shots in one clip with automatic…
2025
- OpenAI launches Sora 2 and the Sora social appOpenAI released Sora 2, a video-and-audio generation model with improved physical realism and synchronized dialogue, alongside an invite-only iOS social app featuring ‘cameos’ of users’ own likeness; the app quickly…
- Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (‘Nano Banana’)Google launched Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, nicknamed ‘Nano Banana’, an image generation and editing model notable for character consistency and conversational multi-turn editing, which drove a surge of Gemini app adoption.
- Google’s Veo 3 generates video with native audioAnnounced at Google I/O 2025, Veo 3 generated video with synchronized sound effects, ambient noise and dialogue from text prompts, producing clips that went viral for their realism.
2024
- OpenAI previews Sora, a text-to-video ‘world simulator’OpenAI previewed Sora, a diffusion-transformer model generating up to a minute of high-fidelity video from text, framing video generation as a path toward general-purpose simulators of the physical world.
2022
- DALL·E 2 brings photorealistic text-to-image generationOpenAI’s DALL·E 2 used a diffusion decoder conditioned on CLIP embeddings to generate high-resolution, photorealistic images from text, kicking off 2022’s image-generation boom alongside Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
2021
- OpenAI unveils DALL·E and CLIPDALL·E generated images from text prompts using a 12B-parameter Transformer, and CLIP learned joint image–text representations from 400M image-caption pairs; CLIP became a key component of later diffusion image…
Models
- Lyria 3 (Clip / Pro) Google DeepMind, 2026-02
- Suno v5.5 Suno, 2026-03
- Eleven Dubbing v2 ElevenLabs, 2026-05
- Lyria 3.5 Google DeepMind, 2026-07
- Dreamina Seedance 2.5 ByteDance Seed, 2026-07
- LTX-2.5 Lightricks, 2026-08
- Wan 3.0 Alibaba Cloud (Tongyi Lab), 2026-08
- MAI-Image-2.6-Flash Microsoft, 2026-09
- MAI-Image-2.6 Microsoft, 2026-09
- GPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI, 2026-09
- GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst OpenAI, 2026-09
- Suno v6 (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini) Suno, 2026-09
- Eleven Music v2.5 ElevenLabs, 2026-09
- Qwen-Image-2.1 Alibaba (Qwen), 2026-09
- HeyGen Video 1 HeyGen, 2026-09
- Utopai X Utopai Studios, 2026-09
- Tavus Griffin (Human Interaction Model) Tavus, 2026-10
- Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) Google DeepMind, 2026-10
- FLUX 3 Image Klein Black Forest Labs, 2026-10
- Krea 3 (Fast / High / Ultra modes) Krea, 2026-10
- Kling 4.0 (and 4.0 Flash) Kuaishou, 2026-10
- FLUX 3 Max Black Forest Labs, 2026-10
Videos
- 48% of People Thought This AI Was a Real Human | Introducing Griffin Tavus, 2026-10-01
- The Beat | Made with KLING 4.0 Kling AI, 2026-09-28
- Introducing Music v2.5 ElevenLabs, 2026-09-11
- Introducing Lyria 3.5 Music Generation in Gemini Google Gemini, 2026-09-04
- What Remains | Short Film | Finalist · Seoul International AI Film Festival 2026 Lucas Cinematic Studio, 2026-05-24
- Introducing Gemini Omni Google for Developers, 2026-05-19
- Introducing Gemini Omni: Create Anything from Anything Google, 2026-05-19
- BONE THRONE | AI Short Film Made with Seedance 2.0 & Kling 3.0 Lennard Smith, 2026-02-28
- Disney approved our insane AI Kalshi ad to run during the NBA Finals 🤣 PJ Ace, 2025-06-11
- 匚尺丨ㄒㄒ乇尺乙 — REMASTERED with Sora OpenAI, 2025-02-13
- Washed Out - The Hardest Part (Official Video) Washed Out, 2024-05-02
- air head · Made by shy kids with Sora OpenAI, 2024-04-05
- Will Smith Eating Spaghetti AI Video - (2023 vs 2024) Just A Happy Troll, 2024-02-28