generative-media
MiniMax H3 and fal turn video generation into a live prompt loop News
MiniMax H3 produces short video with native stereo sound, while fal's H3 Max Director API is built for continuous real-time streams with live prompts—together enabling an interactive broadcast format where the next scene can be steered while viewers watch.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash can extend a scene instead of restarting it News
Google's updated video model reads up to ten seconds of a clip's prior context before continuing it, up from one second, and adds keyframe control, cheap 360p drafts and 4K upscaling through the Gemini API.
fal post-trained MiniMax H3 and kept the weights News
Inference company fal released H3 Max, a post-trained version of the open-weight MiniMax H3 video model that renders a five-second 768p clip in under three seconds -- available only as a hosted API, with no weights published.
Google made the visible Gemini watermark optional and kept the invisible one News
Google added a setting in Gemini Apps that turns off the visible watermark on generated images, videos, and music, while its help page states the setting does not affect SynthID or Content Credentials, the invisible provenance markers embedded in the same files.
Amazon starts asking sellers to declare AI-generated people, as New York's ad law takes effect News
Amazon has added AI-generated and AI-generated-people checkboxes to its seller content upload flow, a global intake change triggered by a New York law effective June 9 that requires advertisers to disclose synthetic performers or face penalties of $1,000 to $5,000.
fal H3 Max Director Tool
fal's API for continuous AI-generated video streams with live prompts and chunked playback controls, built around MiniMax H3 Max Director.
fal H3 Max Tool
A post-trained MiniMax H3 that renders a five-second 768p clip in under three seconds through fal's API, at 480p or 768p and up to 15 seconds. Hosted only -- there are no downloadable weights -- and priced at $3.60 per minute of generated video. There is a browser sandbox for trying it without writing code.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Tool
Google's production-ready generative video model, now able to extend an existing clip using up to ten seconds of prior context, generate between specified first and last frames, draft at 360p for about a third the cost, and upscale finals to 4K. API-only through Google AI Studio.