Making better AI video

Practical guides on prompting, quality and the models behind your video, written for people who run a business and not a render farm.

• Kling 4.0: 30-second clips, keyframes and many references (Models): Launched on 15 October 2026: a whole 30-second advert in one generation, keyframes to steer it, and sound with lip sync in many languages.
• FLUX 3 Image Klein: an open image model for an 8 GB card (Models): Released on 15 October 2026: a small open-weight model that makes and edits images, takes ten references and runs on a gaming graphics card.
• GPT-Live-1.1: new voices for ChatGPT Voice (Models): Rolling out from 15 October 2026: more natural accents and new voices in six languages, inside ChatGPT rather than the API.
• Grok Voice 3.0: xAI’s voice model for phone agents (Models): Released on 14 October 2026: a voice model for phone agents, answering in under a second, at the same price as the version before.
• Helix World: a video scene you can walk through, with sound (Models): Previewed on 12 October 2026: one picture becomes a scene you move through with the keyboard, and the sound turns with the camera.
• Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: the same images in eight steps (Models): Released on 9 October 2026: a faster checkpoint of Qwen-Image-2.1 that makes and edits images in eight steps, including transparent ones.
• Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite: cheap video with sound (Models): Available from early October 2026: clips of up to 15 seconds with sound, at a fraction of the full model’s price.
• Nano Banana 2.1: Google’s image model gets better at text (Models): Released on 6 October 2026: an image model that edits in conversation, writes clearer text in several languages and is already inside Google Ads.
• Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic: a voice model for agents on AWS (Models): Generally available from 5 October 2026: a real-time voice model for agents, with expressive voices in seven languages.
• Reka Rho-1: one model for text, images and video (Models): Previewed on 5 October 2026: one network that both understands and makes text, pictures and video, at low resolution for now.
• Suno Speech: a voice and its music in one take (Models): Open to all from 1 October 2026: describe a voice and a musical style, and the speech and its soundtrack come out as one track.
• MAI-Voice-2.1: one voice in 23 languages (Models): Released on 1 October 2026: text-to-speech in 23 languages and 26 locales, with the same voice speaking every one of them.
• Tavus Griffin-Lite: a video person who talks back (Models): Previewed on 1 October 2026: a generated person on a video call, made from one photo and ten seconds of voice, open to a few testers.
• Decagon Chord: a voice model for customer calls (Models): Announced on 1 October 2026: a voice model that slows down for a confirmation code and switches language when the caller does.
• How to get high-quality AI video for your business (Guides): Most disappointing AI video comes from the brief, not the model. Six habits that make the first result closer to the one you wanted.
• Ideogram 4.5: editing that leaves the rest alone (Models): Released on 30 September 2026: change one thing in a picture and keep everything else exactly as it was, round after round.
• The models behind your video, and the four quality levels (Models): Low, Medium, High and Max, which models sit at each level today, and how a new model joins the roster without you having to follow the news.
• How to write a brief for each of the six video formats (Prompting): Each format needs one fact to get started. A short template and an example for the ad, promotion, UGC, testimonial, explainer and social post.
• Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: extension, frames and drafts (Models): Released on 27 August 2026: clips that can be extended to 40 seconds, start and end frames, and a low-cost draft resolution.
• Adding a call to action and text to an AI video (Guides): Why the sign in your generated shot reads as nonsense, and the reliable way to put your offer and your address on screen.
• Seedance 2.5: longer clips and many more references (Models): Announced on 31 July 2026: clips of up to 30 seconds, far more reference material, and the ability to change part of a clip.
• MiniMax H3: video with sound, from many kinds of input (Models): Launched on 31 July 2026: one model that reads text, pictures, video and sound together, and returns video with stereo audio.
• Keeping the same face and product in every shot (Guides): Drifting faces and shape-shifting products are the most common reason AI video looks generic. What causes it and what you can do about it.
• Prompting AI video: seven techniques that work (Prompting): Subject, action, camera, light: how to describe a shot so the model has less to guess, with a weaker and a stronger version of each.
• Gemini Omni Flash: Google’s video model from I/O (Models): Announced at Google I/O on 20 May 2026: video made and edited from mixed inputs, conversational edits and a watermark on everything.
• Seedance 2.0: the model that takes pictures, video and sound (Models): Launched on 12 February 2026: a model that takes up to 15 files of reference and returns 15-second multi-shot video with stereo sound.
• Kling 3.0: storyboard control and many languages (Models): Announced on 5 February 2026: clips of up to 15 seconds, a multi-shot storyboard feature and native audio in several languages.
• Veo 3.1 update: vertical video and better consistency (Models): Updated on 13 January 2026: reference images that keep characters and backgrounds steadier, native vertical video and 4K upscaling.
• Veo 3.1: frames, extension and ingredients (Models): Announced on 15 October 2025: richer audio, start and end frames, clips that can be extended, and reference images.

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