Research area
Creative Production & Design
Creative production and design — image, video, audio, games, and the tools that put them in more hands.
Published research
1 new finding here overnight. 16 here in all.
2026-09-01
Sep 1, 2026AIU research
Gradium’s new default voice model reads an order number back correctly 81% of the time
What it meansBecause the eval set is open, you can re-run this against your own scripts instead of taking a vendor chart on trust.
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2026-08-22
Aug 22, 2026AIU research
Meta launches a social app where the feed is AI-generated video games
What it meansThe first mass-market test of generated interactive content as a social feed, and of whether anyone wants to scroll one.
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2026-08-07
Aug 7, 2026AIU research
MiniMax releases MiniMax-H3, an open-weights 33B image-to-video model — community tooling lands within a day
What it meansOpen-weights video generation at this scale moves a capability that was API-only last year onto self-hosted rigs — and the day-one tooling shows real demand.
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2026-08-05
Aug 5, 2026AIU research
Autodesk adds 3D Editor + Canvas to Flow Studio for directable AI filmmaking
What it meansSpatial 3D direction over generative rendering is the pattern that turns AI video from a slot machine into a production tool.
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2026-07-24
Jul 24, 2026AIU research
Autodesk puts trainable AI motion generation and real-time rendering inside Maya and 3ds Max
What it meansGenerative capability is landing inside the tools artists already use daily — trainable on their own footage — rather than as a separate app to adopt.
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