LTX-Video: video generator — what it does and what you need to run itLTX-Video is an open source video generator from Lightricks that handles the image-to-video task. The tool lets you turn a static image into a video c…
XTTS: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itXTTS is an open source speech generator from Coqui. It tackles the text-to-speech task: converting text into spoken audio. The project is developed in…
SparsePR accelerates video generators with training-free sparse attentionResearchers introduced SparsePR, a training-free block-sparse attention method for video generators and world models. The paper was published on arXiv…
HunyuanVideo gets a generation acceleration method with near-lossless quality at 5–7x speedupResearchers introduced LinCa, a method for accelerating diffusion models via learnable feature caching with component-wise decomposition. Instead of a…
New h3-vbvr model on HuggingFace tackles image-to-videoOn August 18, 2026, the Patarapoom/h3-vbvr model was published on HuggingFace with the image-to-video task. At the time of publication, it had 2,434 d…
KeyID introduces training-free method for identity-preserving video generationA paper on arXiv presents KeyID, a training-free framework for identity-preserving video generation that separates video dynamics synthesis from ident…
YuE: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itYuE is an open source audio generator from the M-A-P team, which the authors describe as a model for creating full songs. According to the developers…
Stable Audio Open: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itStable Audio Open is an open source audio generator from Stability AI. It handles the text-to-audio task: it turns a text description into an audio fi…
AnyTalk generates 3D speech animation for arbitrary characters without animation dataResearchers introduced AnyTalk, a method for generating 3D speech animation for arbitrary characters that requires neither animation data nor manual r…
Audio-visual generation gets an acceleration method that preserves audio-video synchronizationThe authors of the paper Efficient Audio-Visual Generation via Synchrony-Aware Cross-Modal Sparse Attention propose a method to speed up inference for…
Qwen-Video-Edit turns an image editing model into a video editorAlibaba introduced Qwen-Video-Edit, an approach where the instruction-based image editing model Qwen-Image-Edit is applied to video without training a…
OpenVoice: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itOpenVoice is an open source speech generator from the MyShell team. It handles the text-to-speech task and, as described by the authors, belongs to th…
MusicGen: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itMusicGen is an audio generator from Meta that turns a text description into audio. It is part of the Audiocraft library and handles the text-to-audio…
MegaParts scales part-based 3D object generation to 300 partsResearchers introduced MegaParts, a framework for generating 3D objects decomposed into semantic parts. The approach is based on a vector-quantized to…
V-RAE proposes a new approach to latent spaces for video generationA paper on V-RAE has been published on arXiv, in which the authors rethink the structure of video autoencoder latent spaces. Instead of optimizing the…
Alaya-EVOKE presents a method for generating long interactive worlds with linear scalingA paper by Alaya-EVOKE has been published on arXiv, in which the authors tackle the task of generating long interactive worlds. They externalize the s…
LTX-2.5 released on HuggingFace with text-to-video taskThe model comfyicu/LTX-2.5 has been published on HuggingFace with the text-to-video task. Publication date: 13.08.2026, the model has 3630 downloads…
MOSS-SoundEffect without CUDA (Mac and AMD): audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itMOSS-SoundEffect without CUDA is a desktop application for generating sound effects from text descriptions. The build is aimed at Mac computers with A…
MOSS-SoundEffect: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itMOSS-SoundEffect is an open-source audio generator that turns a text description into audio. The model's task is text-to-audio: the user describes the…
LTX-2.5 text-to-video model released on HuggingFaceThe yuvraj108c/LTX-2.5 model with a text-to-video task has been published on HuggingFace. Publication date: August 12, 2026. As of this news note, the…
News Note on a New Diffusion-Based Method for Removing Reflections from VideoResearchers presented the work From Synthesis to Removal: Physics-Grounded Reflection Simulation and Diffusion-Based Video Dereflection, published on…
LTX-Video and CogVideoX Get a New Zero-Shot Captioning Method via Synthetic DataResearchers have published a paper on arXiv titled Watching Synthetic Videos: Aligning Cross-modal Representations with Visual Synthesis for Zero-shot…
Minimax-H3-fl2va-ref2va-hybrid-models: new text-to-video model on HuggingFaceOn August 11, 2026, the model smhfacct/Minimax-H3-fl2va-ref2va-hybrid-models was published on HuggingFace with the text-to-video task. At the time of…
MMAudio: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itMMAudio is an open source audio generator that synthesizes an audio track from video or a text description. The developers position it as a tool for h…
F5-TTS: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itF5-TTS is an open source speech generator that turns text into sound. The project was created by developer SWivid and is distributed as code and ready…
Latent-to-4D generates 4D scenes directly from video latents without intermediate RGBThe authors of the paper Beyond Pixels: From Video Priors to 4D Worlds propose the Latent-to-4D method, which bypasses the RGB video reconstruction st…
Sci-VBench: A Benchmark for Scientific Accuracy of Video from Generative ModelsThe authors of Sci-VBench introduced a benchmark for evaluating video generation in scientific domains. It includes 1,253 expert-annotated examples ac…
New Minimax_h3_hybrid model on HuggingFace tackles image-to-videoThe abakanai/Minimax_h3_hybrid model has been published on HuggingFace for image-to-video generation. The model appeared on August 9, 2026, and at the…
Fish Speech: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itFish Speech is an open source speech generator from Fish Audio that handles text-to-speech: it turns text into voiceover. The project publishes both t…
DiffRhythm: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itDiffRhythm is an audio generator that, as described by the authors, is designed to create complete songs end-to-end, from text to finished audio, usin…
Robust-WAM adds semantic robustness to World-Action Models built on video generatorsResearchers from arXiv presented Robust-WAM, a post-training method for World-Action Models built on video generative models. The main problem the wor…
Vorch-Streamer turns avatar generation into real-time streaming videoarXiv has published Vorch-Streamer, a post-training method that enables real-time text-to-video generation with audio. The authors address two issues…
HelloWorld — a model for social interaction with characters in video worldsResearchers have introduced HelloWorld, a video world model in which the user can interact with characters on screen. With the press of a button, the…
GVCCTurbo proposes bitrate planning for generative compression of video and images withoutarXiv Researchers introduced GVCCTurbo, a planner that separates costly updates of the generative prior from transmitting corrections through a codebo…
CosyVoice: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itCosyVoice is an open source speech generator from Alibaba. It tackles the text-to-speech task: converting text into spoken audio. The authors describe…
ChatTTS: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itChatTTS is an open source audio generator from the 2noise team. It tackles the text-to-audio task: converting text into speech geared toward everyday…
SQuad accelerates video generation in Wan 2.2, reducing attention by 67xThe authors of SQuad introduced a sub-quadratic attention distillation method for Video Diffusion Transformers. Instead of training a model from scrat…
SUV: Scene Future as Video Generation for End-to-End DrivingOn August 4, 2026, a paper on arXiv introduced SUV — an end-to-end driving framework that frames future scene understanding as a video generation task…
SPADE accelerates attention in video diffusion transformers without fine-tuningResearchers have introduced SPADE, a sparse attention engine that accelerates inference of video diffusion transformers without model fine-tuning. The…
Token Radius Attention Speeds Up Video Generation in Diffusion Transformers Without Fine-TuningResearchers from Peking University have introduced Token Radius Attention (TRA), a method that reduces the computational load in Video Diffusion Trans…
EchoCache accelerates sound-driven video generation using audio signal energyarXiv reports on EchoCache, a caching method for audio-driven video generation (A2V). The authors identified two types of mismatch in existing approac…
Bark: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itBark is an open source audio generator from Suno that tackles the text-to-speech task: it converts text into speech and other sounds based on a text d…
VA-Judger: Reward Model for Joint Video and Audio GenerationResearchers introduced VA-Judger, a reward model for post-training of joint video and audio generation systems, along with the VAPref-10K dataset of 1…
MAGI-2-preview by Sand AI: new open-source image-to-video model on HuggingFaceThe sand-ai/MAGI-2-preview model has been published on HuggingFace — a preview version of the image-to-video generator by Sand AI. The model handles t…
UniMoCa unifies human motion and camera control in a single visual representationResearchers have introduced UniMoCa, a method that translates both human motion and camera trajectory into a shared visual representation called Motio…
MoRoute proposes dynamic layer routing for multimodal video generationResearchers from MoRoute published a paper proposing to combine a frozen vision-language model (VLM) and a pretrained video diffusion transformer (DiT…
FreqForcing extends autoregressive video generation to two minutes without fine-tuningOn July 29, 2026, the paper FreqForcing: Autoregressive Long Video Generation via Spectral Self-Anchoring appeared on arXiv. The authors investigate t…
VoxelModel-v1: new open-source text-to-3d model on HuggingFaceThe bench-labs/VoxelModel-v1 model, which tackles the text-to-3d task, has been published on HuggingFace. The model appeared on July 26, 2026, and the…
ACE-Step: audio generator — what it does and what you need to run itACE-Step is an open source audio generator that turns a text description into audio. The developers position it as a step toward a base model for musi…
Hunyuan3D 2.1 without CUDA (Mac and AMD): 3D generator — what it does and what you need to run itHunyuan3D 2.1 without CUDA is a build that lets you run the Tencent Hunyuan 3D 2.1 3D generation model on computers without NVIDIA GPUs. The author ad…

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