Jul 15, 2026
Google is bringing from-scratch image creation into Search, powered by its fast, low-cost Nano Banana tier. For creators, that tier is a draft engine.
Jul 14, 2026
On July 8, ByteDance shipped Seedream 5.0 Pro, an image model that can separate a finished picture into more than ten editable layers.
Jul 13, 2026
On June 30, Google widened access to Gemini Omni Flash, a video model you refine by conversation.
Jul 11, 2026
Meta's first in-house image model plans, gathers references, and checks its own work before it answers. The video half is a preview, not yet a tool.
Jul 10, 2026
Recraft Studio can now edit the vector it just made. Pull a point, recolor one shape, duplicate a letterform.
Jul 3, 2026
Name what each reference controls, what it should not carry, and when to remove it.
Jun 30, 2026
Anthropic says Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access is being restored after export controls were lifted. For creators, the useful lesson is not speed. It is dependency.
Jun 29, 2026
The prompt is not only what you name. It is also what you leave quiet, so the model has space to compose a frame instead of filling every inch.
Jun 26, 2026
GPT-5.6 launched today, gated to about twenty companies, and it does not make images.
