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German AI company Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model trained on images, video, and audio together. It can generate videos up to 20 seconds long with native audio for the first time. In early tests, it beat several rivals including Luma Ray 3.2 and Runway Gen-4.5. The company also developed Flux-mimic, a video-action model for robotics, now being tested at Audi.
Luma has launched its Uni-1.1 image generation model through a public API with pricing and quality that align with leaders like OpenAI and Google. The REST API supports text-based image creation and editing, ranking 7th or 8th on Arena leaderboards. Two pricing tiers start at $0.0404 per image, with options for reference images and high-resolution outputs.
AI video startup Luma has introduced Innovative Dreams, a production company created alongside Wonder Project, which makes religious films and TV for Amazon Prime. Their initial series, 'The Old Stories: Moses' starring Ben Kingsley, arrives on Prime Video this spring. The setup lets filmmakers and Luma's technologists team up in real time using Luma Agents for sets, props, lighting, and actor footage.