Research area
Creative Production & Design
Creative production and design — image, video, audio, games, and the tools that put them in more hands.
Published research
Checked overnight — nothing new here. It last published 1 September. 16 here in all.
2026-10-01
Oct 1, 2026AIU research
Maxon added an MCP server to Cinema 4D so Claude or ChatGPT can drive it
What it meansMCP is reaching professional creative tools, which keeps the scene local and the artist in control of each change.
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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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