OpenAI has launched three new voice API models for live audio agents, real-time translation and streaming transcription, with GPT-Realtime-2 adding larger context, adjustable reasoning effort, tool transparency and stronger recovery behaviour.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 on April 21, adding reasoning before generation, multilingual text, real-time information, broader aspect ratios, and up to eight images from one prompt.
Anthropic launched Claude Design, a research preview tool for paid Claude users that turns prompts into prototypes, visual assets, and handoff-ready outputs.
OpenAI is closing the Sora video generator after a brief expansion into a stand-alone AI video app, ending the consumer product while continuing related research.
Google released Nano Banana 2, also called Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, expanding AI image generation with real-time web search grounding and structured visual outputs.
ProducerAI joins Google Labs as Google expands Lyria 3 music creation in Gemini, starting with 30-second tracks and SynthID watermarking.
ByteDance introduces Safeguards to Seedance 2.0 following legal threats from Disney and Paramount and warnings from the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA.
ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 in February 2026, enabling multimodal AI video generation with audio. Hollywood groups including the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA condemned the model over copyright concerns.
Roblox 4D creation is now in open beta, letting creators and players generate functional, physics-driven 3D objects with Cube-powered schemas.
