Multimodal

China’s short-drama industry released an average of 470 AI-generated short dramas per day in January, while production timelines fell from months to weeks and costs dropped by up to 90%.

Chinese short-drama companies are using AI for full-series production, with DataEye counting an average of 470 AI-generated short dramas released per day in January 2026, while FlexTV says production time fell from three to four months to under one month and North American per-series costs can drop by 80% to 90%.

A developer released the keon/jepa teaching repository with five JEPA variants implemented as standalone PyTorch files, ranging from 160 to 278 lines, depending only on PyTorch and torchvision; the post reports iJEPA runs on CIFAR-10 for 100 epochs and reaches 52.7% linear-probe accuracy, while V-JEPA, C-JEPA, and LeWorldModel use toy or synthetic datasets.

Google DeepMind released a Gemini-powered AI-enabled pointer and opened two demos in Google AI Studio: image editing and place finding on maps, while the post says Chrome pointer selection and a Googlebook Magic Pointer are planned product paths.

The developer open-sourced StudioMI300, an 8-stage sequential pipeline that turns one English sentence into a 720p MP4 on a single AMD Instinct MI300X, cutting end-to-end time from 25.9 minutes to 10.4 minutes per clip.

MIT Technology Review documents Jennifer and other adult content creators whose bodies were used in NCII deepfakes, with examples spanning Jennifer’s circa-2013 video and the 2017 Reddit “deepfakes” uploads involving celebrity face swaps.

Ramp says Anthropic reached 34.4% enterprise adoption, surpassing OpenAI at 32.3% for the first time; the index is based on credit-card and invoice spending from more than 50,000 companies.

Alexandr Wang said Meta rebuilt its pretraining, reinforcement learning, and data stacks in nine months, while Muse Spark remains closed because it triggered safety checks in areas including biosecurity, cyber capability, and loss of control.

PsiBot says it uses 100,000 hours of human operation data to train robot policies, with the W0 world model acting only as a training-time transfer module while deployment runs R2 alone.

Anthropic published guidance for Claude computer and browser use, with Claude 4.6 API screenshots capped at a 1,568-pixel long edge and 1.15 million total pixels, while Opus 4.7 raises the limits to 2,576 pixels and 3.75 million total pixels.

Runway launched Runway Agent, a video creation agent that turns one natural-language conversation into multi-scene videos with narration, dialogue, and music; new free-plan users receive 1,500 credits for their first video.

SenseNova published SenseNova-U1-A3B-MoT on Hugging Face; the post lists A3B MoT, 8B MoT, and 0.4B LoRA weight links, and says the NEO-unify architecture unifies multimodal understanding, reasoning, and generation in one model family.

AIDC-AI released Ovis2.6-80B-A3B, a multimodal MoE model with 80B total parameters and about 3B active parameters at inference, supporting a 64K-token context window and images up to 2880×2880 resolution.

ByteDance’s commercial technology team proposed GRN, a visual generation architecture using HBQ, global refinement, and complexity-aware sampling to address quantization loss, error accumulation, and fixed-step inference; on a 130M model, adaptive sampling reduced inference from 50 steps to an average of 24, while gFID changed from 3.56 to 3.79.

The Information says Lin Junyang is raising several hundred million dollars for a new AI Lab at a potential $2 billion post-financing valuation, while the lab’s research direction and final valuation remain undisclosed.

SenseTime released the SenseNova-U1 technical report, covering six-stage training, RL post-training, and distillation; the open-source SenseNova-U1-A3B-MoT uses an MoE architecture and activates only 3 billion parameters.

ModelBest, Tsinghua University, and OpenBMB open-sourced MiniCPM-V 4.6, a 1.3B multimodal model that supports full fine-tuning on one RTX 4090 and offers 4x/16x visual token compression for accuracy or speed trade-offs.

StepFun released the 3.5B-parameter Step Image Edit 2 model, which ranks first in KRIS-Bench overall, factual, and conceptual categories, and is now available on the Stepfun Open Platform.

ByteDance open-sourced DreamLite, a 0.39B-parameter unified diffusion model that generates or edits a 1024×1024 image on an iPhone 17 Pro in about 3 seconds, using 4-step DMD2 distillation and on-device offline inference without cloud dependency.

AgiBot says it had shipped 10,000 general-purpose embodied robots by the end of March, and its humanoid robots worked eight continuous hours on a Nanchang 3C production line, completing 2,283 tasks with zero errors under formal line-cycle requirements.