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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 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 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.
ByteDance Seed released Seedream 4.0 in September 2025, with text-to-image generation, image editing and multi-image composition in one model, producing images from 1K to 4K.
On 26 August 2025 Google added a new image editing model, nicknamed Nano Banana, to the Gemini app and called it the top-rated image editing model on the LMArena image-edit leaderboard. Developers could use the same model as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image.
On 22 August 2025, Meta said it would license Midjourney's AI image and video generation technology, with Meta research teams collaborating with the startup. Financial terms were not disclosed, and Midjourney said it remains independent.
On 4 August 2025 the Qwen team released Qwen-Image, a 20-billion-parameter image generation model with open weights under Apache 2.0, noted for rendering text inside images, especially Chinese.
Runway released Aleph, an in-context video model that edits footage already shot: it adds, removes and transforms objects, generates new camera angles and changes style or lighting, and is available on all paid plans.
On 18 June 2025, Midjourney released V1, its first video model, which turns images into short clips and names real-time open-world simulation as a long-term goal.
