
Dreamina Seedance 2.0
ByteDance's top-ranked AI video generation model with native joint audio-video synthesis, multi-shot support, and multimodal reference inputs across up to 12 files per generation.
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ByteDance's top-ranked AI video generation model with native joint audio-video synthesis, multi-shot support, and multimodal reference inputs across up to 12 files per generation.

Alibaba's open-source video generation model with MoE architecture, native audio, first-and-last-frame control, and 1080p output up to 15 seconds.

HappyHorse-1.0 is Alibaba's 15-billion-parameter video generation model that ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis, producing 720p-1080p clips with joint audio-video synthesis in a single forward pass.

SkyReels V4 is Skywork AI's unified multi-modal video model that jointly generates 1080p/32FPS video and synchronized audio from a single dual-stream diffusion transformer.

OpenAI's Sora 2 generates physics-accurate video with synchronized audio from text or images, available API-only until its September 24, 2026 sunset.

Runway's Gen-4.5 is a video generation model built on an Autoregressive-to-Diffusion architecture that held the top Artificial Analysis Elo position at launch with 1,247 points before Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0 surpassed it in early 2026.

HappyHorse-1.0 from Alibaba-ATH leads the Artificial Analysis blind-vote rankings at Elo 1,290, but Seedance 2.0 is now globally available via fal.ai and still tops the with-audio leaderboard at 1,218.

Google DeepMind's $75M investment in A24 aims to build AI tools shaped by filmmakers rather than imposed on them, as studios race to stake their AI positions across Hollywood.

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is an open physical AI omnimodel with Mixture-of-Transformers architecture that natively handles text, images, video, sound, and robot actions in a single 16B or 64B model.

YouTube now auto-detects and labels photorealistic AI video content without waiting for creator disclosure, using C2PA metadata and internal signals in a shift that removes creator control from the equation.

NVIDIA's SANA-WM is a 2.6B-parameter hybrid linear diffusion transformer that generates 60-second 720p video with 6-DoF camera control on a single H100, built for embodied AI and robotics simulation.

NVIDIA NVLabs open-sourced SANA-WM, a 2.6B-parameter world model that generates 60-second 720p camera-controlled video on a single GPU, outperforming 14B+ competitors that need 8 GPUs.