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On 22 September 2026 PixVerse announced R2, a scaling release of its real-time world model that adds more data, tasks and input types at the same latency, and showed it running playable, prompt-editable worlds.
Character.ai's CAI-Image family consists of image models post-trained from open-source Qwen-Image and tuned for character-driven storytelling, so the same character stays recognisable across styles, scenes and pages. The company announced the models on 16 September 2026.
On 20 August 2026 SenseTime released SenseNova U1.5-8B-MoT, an open-weight model that generates images natively up to 4096x4096 pixels, after a preview in July.
On 7 July 2026 Meta Superintelligence Labs introduced Muse Image and Muse Video, its first media generation models. Muse Image launched in Meta's apps, while Muse Video entered early preview.
On 3 July 2026 Shengshu released Vidu S1, a real-time interactive video generation model that takes voice input during a video call and changes a character's expression, gestures and body movement in response.
On 21 April 2026 OpenAI released gpt-image-2, an image model that generates and edits pictures from text and image inputs and appears in ChatGPT as ChatGPT Images 2.0. It replaced the GPT Image 1 line and was later revised as versions 2.5 and 2.6.
Midjourney released the V8 alpha on 17 March 2026, generating images about five times faster, with a native 2K --hd mode, improved text rendering, new prompt parameters and a Grid Mode interface. Point releases followed later that year.
PixVerse closed a Series C led by CDH Investments on 12 March 2026, saying the round made it a global AI unicorn and was Asia's largest in AI video generation. It reported more than 100 million users.
On 5 March 2026 Ai2 released Olmo Hybrid, a fully open 7B model that stacks Gated DeltaNet linear-RNN layers with attention layers in a 3:1 ratio and reaches Olmo 3's MMLU accuracy with 49% fewer training tokens.
TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging places logic dies and HBM stacks on a silicon interposer; capacity remains sold out, and TSMC is expanding in Tainan and Chiayi while developing panel-level CoPoS.
Cambricon's next flagship cloud training chip, the MLU 690, entered mass production in early 2026, pairing a dual-die package with more than 700 TFLOPS of FP16 compute and 196 GB of HBM3 memory.
On 1 December 2025 Hugging Face released Transformers v5.0.0rc0, the first major version since v4 in November 2020. The library grew from about 40 architectures to more than 400.
On 1 December 2025 Runway released Gen-4.5, a text-to-video model that reached the top of the Artificial Analysis leaderboard at 1,247 Elo, with claimed gains in physics, scene composition, character expression and controllability.
On 1 December 2025 the German image-model developer Black Forest Labs said it had raised a $300 million Series B co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha's AMP, valuing the company at $3.25 billion.
On 25 November 2025 Black Forest Labs released the FLUX.2 image models, with hosted pro and flex variants and the open-weight 32B dev model. The smaller klein models followed in January 2026.
On 20 November 2025 Google released Nano Banana Pro, an image model built on Gemini 3 Pro that emphasises correctly rendered text in multiple languages, Search-grounded infographics and 2K/4K output.
On 19 November 2025 Yann LeCun confirmed that he would leave Meta after ten years to found an AI startup focused on advanced machine intelligence. Meta was to be a partner of the new company.
On 4 November 2025 the High Court of England and Wales ruled in Getty Images v Stability AI, rejecting Getty's secondary copyright claim but finding very limited trademark infringement over watermarks in some outputs.
On 13 October 2025 Microsoft AI announced MAI-Image-1, its first image model built entirely in-house. It reached LMArena's top 10 and began rolling out in Bing Image Creator and Copilot on 4 November 2025.
On 28 September 2025 Tencent released the code, weights and technical report for HunyuanImage 3.0, an open-source mixture-of-experts image generation model.
At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, Huawei published its first three-year Ascend chip roadmap, running to 2028, alongside new Atlas SuperPoD systems and a pledge to open source CANN.
