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  • Use case: a music video made fully locally with MiniMax H3, YuE2 and HiDream O1

    A creator made a three-minute music video using only open-weight models on their own machine: YuE2 for the song, HiDream O1 for character and world references, Qwen 3.8 27B to format prompts and MiniMax H3 for the video. The edit was done in DaVinci Resolve with only basic tools and no cloud AI.

    MiniMax H32 sources · x.com

  • Kling 4.0 launches globally

    Kling 4.0 is Kling AI's new video model, which can generate up to 30 seconds of video in one go with keyframe control and sound. After early access in late September, it is now fully available, including through MCP and a command-line tool.

    Kling 4.03 sources · digitaltoday.co.kr

  • Pika's ChatGPT plugin puts its video, image and sound apps inside the chat

    Pika launched a plugin for ChatGPT that runs its 40+ creation apps and 55+ image, video, music and speech models inside the chat. You can ask ChatGPT to bring up an editing timeline, and the plugin works with your existing Pika library.

    Pika4 sources · pika.art

  • Use case: a 22-second drone flight over Taiwan from a Blender blockout and MiniMax H3

    A creator made a 22-second FPV-style flight past four Taiwanese landmarks without a drone, using a gray Blender blockout and MiniMax H3 running locally on one RTX 5090. The write-up shares every step, the render times and what still breaks.

    MiniMax H32 sources · ai-muninn.com

  • Mago Local runs the Mago AI film studio on your own GPU

    Mago released a Windows desktop version of its AI video studio that renders on your own NVIDIA GPU, so local renders don't use credits. It can connect to an existing ComfyUI install or set one up, and the cloud models are still available in the app.

    Mago3 sources · mago.studio

  • SolarRenderer turns grey-box, skeleton or sketch video into finished shots with MiniMax H3

    SolarRenderer is a pair of open LoRAs for MiniMax H3 that renders a structure video, such as a game-engine grey box, a skeleton or depth pass, or a pencil storyboard, into finished video in four sampling steps. The first frame and the prompt set the look, so the same blockout can come out photoreal, anime, pixel art or ink.

    SolarRenderer3 sources · github.com

  • Video Rebirth launches BACH 1.0 Pro

    BACH 1.0 Pro is a video model aimed at film, advertising and animation teams that need consistent characters and products across shots. Each generation can use up to 12 image, video or audio references, and 1080p API output is listed at $0.12 per second.

    BACH 1.0 Pro2 sources · runtimewire.com

  • FastH3-Omni preview speeds up MiniMax H3 reference video

    FastH3-Omni is an accelerated version of MiniMax H3 that conditions clips on images, audio, text and first and last frames. A hosted preview is live, with open weights and training code announced for October 20, 2026.

    FastH3-Omni1 source · nuvalab.ai

  • HeyGen Video model arrives on Civitai

    HeyGen's first general-purpose video model makes 5 to 15 second clips with dialogue, ambience and sound effects generated in the same pass. It is now available in the Civitai generator for text, image or reference to video.

    HeyGen Video1 source · civitai.com

  • WanGP v18 adds Kandinsky 6.0 and much faster video VAEs

    WanGP v18.00 rewrites the LTX 2, Wan and HunyuanVideo VAEs to be 2 to 3.5 times faster and lighter on VRAM. It also adds the Kandinsky 6.0 audio-video model, Wan 2.2 Prism Video and Wan 2.1 camera control.

    WanGP1 source · github.com

  • Shengshu launches Vidu Q4 Preview with 4K output

    Vidu Q4 Preview makes video clips up to 16 seconds long at up to 4K with 10-bit color. It accepts up to 15 reference images and 3 reference audio clips to keep characters and voices consistent.

    Vidu Q41 source · news.aibase.com

  • Kandinsky 6.0 Video released as open audio-video model

    Kandinsky 6.0 Video generates five-second clips with matching sound, including lip-synced speech, from text or an image. The Lite and Pro models, code and weights are released under the MIT license.

    Kandinsky 6.0 Video1 source · arxiv.org

  • WanGP v17 runs 15 s of MiniMax H3 at 1080p in 11 GB of VRAM

    WanGP, a free local app for open video, image and audio models, rebuilt its memory engine (MMGP v4) in v17. The developer says 15 seconds of MiniMax H3 at 1080p now needs 11 GB of VRAM instead of 25 GB, and 480p fits in 5-6 GB.

    WanGP2 sources · creativeainews.com

  • LTX-2.5 Layout to Render turns a 3D blockout into a finished shot

    Lightricks released an open IC-LoRA for its LTX-2.5 22B video model that turns a grey clay viewport or blocky playblast from Blender or Unreal into a finished shot. The layout sets the camera, motion and object placement, and an art-directed first frame sets the look.

    LTX-2.5 Layout to Render3 sources · huggingface.co

  • Use case: a family sci-fi short made with MiniMax H3 on a home PC

    Chris Beach made a short space film starring his family, with every shot generated locally by MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI on one RTX 5090. He published the full workflow, render times and electricity cost.

    MiniMax H32 sources · chrisbeach.co.uk

  • Google Vids offers free HD AI video with Gemini Omni

    Anyone with a Google account can now generate 1080p video clips in Google Vids using the Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash model at no cost. Every generated clip carries a digital watermark.

    Google Vids (Gemini Omni 1.1)1 source · blog.google

  • Creatify launches Boreal ad video model

    Boreal is a text-to-video and image-to-video model built for advertising that costs one cent per second. It renders roughly in real time and is available via Creatify's API, its apps and fal.

    Boreal1 source · creatify.ai

  • Use case: 'Tusk Hunters' AI short film made with Flick

    Filmmaker Alan Xiao released Tusk Hunters, an AI short film made with Flick for the Summer '26 Flick Residency Film Series. It features original music by Daniel Lindholm.

    Flick1 source · x.com

  • Premiere gets a Generative Media Tool in the timeline

    Adobe Premiere can now generate video and sound effects directly in the timeline, using Firefly or partner models such as Veo, Kling, Runway and Luma. After Effects also gets an AI Assistant in public beta.

    Adobe Premiere Generative Media Tool1 source · blog.adobe.com

  • Runway plugins for Premiere Pro and After Effects

    A free Runway panel inside Premiere Pro and After Effects lets editors generate, restyle and upscale footage without leaving the timeline. Generations use the user's existing Runway plan credits.

    Runway Plugins1 source · runway.com

  • Use case: 'Xenogenesis' AI short film made with Flick

    Xenogenesis is an AI short film by filmmaker @Gertywood5 made with Flick. It is part of the Summer '26 Flick Residency Film Series.

    Flick1 source · x.com

  • fal releases H3 Max video model

    fal post-trained the open MiniMax H3 weights into H3 Max for text-to-video and image-to-video. fal says it runs faster than real time and costs $0.08 per second at 768p after the launch promotion.

    H3 Max1 source · prnewswire.com

  • h3-metal: MiniMax H3 running natively on Apple Silicon

    h3-metal (antirez/h3.c) is an open-source C and Metal inference engine that runs MiniMax H3 on Mac computers. It supports prompt-to-video with audio, first and last frames, and image, video and audio references.

    h3-metal2 sources · github.com

  • MiniMax H3 open weights run locally in ComfyUI

    MiniMax H3 is MiniMax's first open-weights video model, making clips with stereo sound up to 2K and 15 seconds. ComfyUI supported it on day one with pruned, quantized files that can run on a 12 GB RTX 3060.

    MiniMax H39 sources · blog.comfy.org

Questions and answers

Which AI video generators can I run locally for free?

Among the entries here, MiniMax H3 and Kandinsky 6.0 Video have open weights you can run on your own GPU. WanGP and ComfyUI are free apps that run these models locally.

Which AI video models generate sound with the video?

Several entries here make audio in the same pass, including MiniMax H3 (stereo sound), Kandinsky 6.0 Video and HeyGen Video. Kandinsky's clips are limited to 5 seconds.

How much does AI video generation cost per second?

Prices in our entries vary: Boreal is $0.01 per second, H3 Max is $0.08 per second at 768p and BACH 1.0 Pro is listed at $0.12 per second for 1080p. Google Vids offers free AI video with a Google account.

Which AI video generator keeps characters consistent across shots?

Among the entries here, Vidu Q4 accepts up to 15 reference images and 3 audio clips, and BACH 1.0 Pro takes up to 12 references per generation. See also the consistent characters guides.