Sheet 45 · AI video models & image models
Every release, open-weights drop, paper and price change for AI video models and image models, collected from 57 public sources and printed as one numbered sheet. Announcements from the labs that make the models are boxed in red.
WEEK OF 02 NOV 202687 FRAMES THIS WEEK57 SOURCES READ2 OFFICIAL RELEASES MARKEDLAST READ 20:00 UTC
This week
31 frames- 2276NewManimCode: Learning Visual Self-Correction for Educational AnimationarXiv: video generation
- 1558NewEDGAR: Efficient Diffusion-Driven Gaussian Avatar Refinement via Synthetic FailureHugging Face Daily Papers
- 1329NewIDPrior: Decoupling Identity Generation from Facial Image SynthesisarXiv: image generation
- 1328NewStitchEdit: Stitching Depth Priors into Image Editors via Per-Layer Gradient ProbingarXiv: image generation
- 1327NewTRACEMARK: Editor-Aware Watermarking for User Attribution in Text-Guided Image EditingarXiv: image generation
- 1326NewTraining-Free Predictive Spatio-Temporal Token Pruning for Few-Step Autoregressive Video DiffusionarXiv: video generation
- 338NewThe Future of Video Production is Here!Curious Refuge
- 337NewGoogle's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percentThe Decoder
- 336NewGemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now listed on OpenRouter
Text and image to video · 3–15 s · 720p, 1080p, 4K, 360p · 16:9 9:16 · audio · from $0.023/s on OpenRouter
OpenRouter video model - 335NewGemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clipsGoogle AI Blog
- 334NewComfyUI Image Size Explained: Empty Latent Image, Aspect Ratio and Batch Sizepixaroma
- 333NewLTX-2 v1.6.1Lightricks/LTX-2
- 331NewArtiVidRM: Verifiable Artifact-as-Rubric Reward Modeling for Explicit Quality Articulation in Video GenerationarXiv: video generation
- 329NewGPT Image 2.6 Sunburst is now listed on OpenRouter
Text to image and image editing · up to 16 reference images · $30.00 per 1M output image tokens
OpenRouter image model - 328NewGPT Image 2.6 Flare is now listed on OpenRouter
Text to image and image editing · up to 16 reference images · $30.00 per 1M output image tokens
OpenRouter image model
- 327NewImages 2.6Hacker News: image models
- 325NewGemini Omni 1.1 Flash is now listed on OpenRouter
Text and image to video · 3–10 s · 720p, 1080p, 4K, 360p · 16:9 9:16 · audio · from $0.034/s on OpenRouter
OpenRouter video model - 324NewChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 modelThe Decoder
- 322NewHow BAD is AI for Games?Olivio Sarikas
- 318NewTurboDiffusion: Add H3 FL2VA inference with native W8A8, public SpargeAttn and DBCach…thu-ml/TurboDiffusion
- 304NewTurns Matter: Advancing Streaming Video RL via Turn-Level CreditHugging Face Daily Papers
- 303NewMiniMax H3 in ComfyUI | Character Swap, Talk, Sing & Timeline (Ep41)pixaroma
- 297NewInvokeAI 6.14.4InvokeAI
- 296NewWhich MiniMax H3 model should you use?Replicate Blog
- 292NewThe Most Insane AI Film You'll See Today (Seedance 2.5)Theoretically Media
Earlier
20 frames- 262NewAI Can Now Light Your Films in Post! (Full Tutorial)Curious Refuge
- 260NewComfyUI v0.43.2ComfyUI
- 259Newmischief 1 is now listed on OpenRouter
Text and image to video · 3–5 s · 480p, 720p · 16:9 · from $0.005/s on OpenRouter
OpenRouter video model - 258NewAI Video Just Stepped Into the Real World!Theoretically Media
- 256NewComfyUI Prompts Explained: CLIP Text Encode, Negative and Dynamic Promptspixaroma
- 255NewRiverflow V2.6 Pro is now listed on OpenRouter
Text to image and image editing · 1K, 2K, 4K · up to 10 reference images · from $0.13 per image
OpenRouter image model - 250NewDiffusers v0.42.1 — fix component resolution in `from_pretrained` to prevent `trust_remote_code` bypassDiffusers
- 248NewThe Ultimate Guide to Kling 4.0Replicate Blog
- 247NewMOSS Image - With Control, References & Editing in ComfyUI!Nerdy Rodent
- 243NewDiffusers 0.42.0: FLUX.3, Fibo 2.0, Kandinsky 6, and moreDiffusers
- 242NewSana: Add license header to the negative prompt test (#547)NVlabs/Sana
- 237NewClaude Rebuilt This AI Video in Unreal Engine (Zero Imported Assets)MattVidPro
- 229NewLTX-2 v1.5.0Lightricks/LTX-2
- 227NewFree & Open Source Design with Ming Image in ComfyUI!Nerdy Rodent
- 224NewGemini 4 Argon is Cheaper Than Opus... But the Catch?MattVidPro
Newest AI video models and image models
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flashvideo · 05 Nov
- GPT Image 2.6 Sunburstimage · 04 Nov
- GPT Image 2.6 Flareimage · 04 Nov
- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flashvideo · 04 Nov
- mischief 1video · 30 Oct
- Riverflow V2.6 Proimage · 29 Oct
AI video models: a 5-second clip at 720p
- mischief 1$0.05
- Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite$0.15
- Veo 3.1 Litewith sound · $0.25
- Seedance 1.5 Prowith sound · ≈$0.26
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flashwith sound · $0.35
- Grok Imagine Video$0.35
Open AI video models with recent releases
- deepbeepmeep/WanGP6 updates · 30 days
- Lightricks/LTX-23 updates · 30 days
- NVlabs/Sana2 updates · 30 days
- thu-ml/TurboDiffusion1 update · 30 days
- Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo1 update · 30 days
- ModelTC/LightX2V1 update · 30 days
How VidoGrid tracks AI video models
New AI video models and image models arrive almost every week, and the news about them is scattered across lab blogs, GitHub repositories, research papers, platform changelogs and video channels. VidoGrid reads 57 of those public sources every twenty minutes and prints what changed as one running sheet, so you can see the week at a glance instead of opening a dozen tabs.
Each frame on the sheet is one update with a running number, the headline as its source wrote it, where it came from and when. The whole frame links to the original. Updates published by the company that makes the model are boxed in red marker; a red tick marks releases with open weights you can download and run yourself. Come back later and a yellow line shows where you stopped, with everything newer above it.
Comparing AI video models is mostly a question of a few hard facts: how long a clip can be, the resolutions and aspect ratios on offer, whether the model makes sound, whether you can pin the first and last frame with your own images, and what a second of video costs. The AI video model comparison puts those facts side by side for every model in a public catalogue, and the AI image models table does the same for still images, including which models edit photos and how many reference images they accept.
If you would rather run AI video models on your own hardware, the open source video generation models page follows releases from the Wan, HunyuanVideo and LTX-2 repositories and the models trending on Hugging Face, and the video generation papers page collects the research those models grow out of.
Prompting differs from one model to the next, so VidoGrid also keeps prompt guides written from each maker's own documentation: veo 3 prompt guide, wan 2.2 prompts, kling ai prompts, nano banana prompts and flux prompt guide. VidoGrid is not affiliated with any of the makers; every claim on the sheet comes from the source it links to.