Seedance 2.0 Pro tops a Hong Kong ranking of AI video models on quality and sits sixth on safety

Krea puts AI shots and backgrounds inside Adobe Premiere Pro, but names no video models

Krea's new Premiere Pro panel makes shots, backgrounds and looks inside the edit, running on Krea's servers. Krea has not said which video models run in the panel or what a clip costs.

Krea has released a panel for Adobe Premiere Pro. It makes shots, inserts, backgrounds and looks inside the edit, and the results drop into the project as normal clips you can trim, grade and mix. Krea announced it on X on October 26, though its own blog post is dated October 20.

The pitch is simple: stop leaving the edit. An editor short of coverage can make a cutaway or a background plate (a backdrop shot for compositing) right next to the shots it has to match. Krea's launch film goes further and shows video clips, sound effects, relighting and green screen help, all from the same panel.

The catch is in the small print. Krea's own guide lists stills, backgrounds and looks, and it sends people to the website for its video models such as Seedance 2.5 and Veo 3.1. It does not say which video models run inside the panel or what a clip costs. The free plan gives 100 compute units a day, and video starts on the $9 a month plan with selected models. Everything needs a Krea account and an internet connection, because the work happens on Krea's servers. There is no outside test yet.

Our take: the fight for AI video is moving from the browser tab to the editor's timeline. Krea now has panels in six creative apps, and this one sits inside Adobe's own editor, next to Adobe's own Firefly tools.

Source: Krea's blog and Premiere Pro plugin page, and Krea's launch post on X.

Nvidia invests in Higgsfield, the app that resells AI video models to creators

Nvidia and TCV did not say how much they invested. Higgsfield's $1 billion annual pace is four weeks of revenue times 13, unaudited, and Higgsfield buys Nvidia chips.

Nvidia and the growth investor TCV have put money into Higgsfield, the app many AI filmmakers use to reach Seedance, Kling and Wan from one login. Neither has said how much, and no new valuation is on record. The only public price is still August's: $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation. Nvidia's Jensen Huang, in Kazakhstan that week, kept his comment general: "The first thing and the last thing is you invest in people, not companies."

Higgsfield says it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue in September. Its own blog explains the math: the last four weeks of revenue, multiplied by 13. By our arithmetic that is roughly $77 million in four weeks, and no auditor has signed it.

The money also runs in a circle. Higgsfield buys Nvidia chips and says it is moving to Nvidia's next generation, Vera Rubin. A supplier investing in a fast-growing buyer is ordinary strategy, and it is not Nvidia's first bet on AI video: it has backed Runway twice.

The stronger case for Higgsfield is its own demand. It reached a claimed $1 billion pace without owning the most popular model it sells, which suggests makers will pay for one login, one credit balance and quick access to whatever launched this week.

Anyone budgeting a short film on Higgsfield should watch how the bill is changing. Subscriptions were once more than 90% of Higgsfield's revenue and are now just over 60%, with the rest charged per generation.

Our take: Nvidia's money is a vote for Higgsfield's demand, not proof that apps reselling other labs' models beat the labs themselves. Keep comparing its per-second prices with the labs' own, and keep your projects portable.

Full story, with the per-second price table, via the

Source: Higgsfield's release and blog, Variety and CNBC, Oct 23, 2026.

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Runway's App Studio turns a team's creative know-how into apps that only run inside Runway

Runway's App Studio builds custom image, video and audio apps from a plain description, at no extra fee on paid plans. Every app and every user stays inside Runway, and only one early customer is named.

Runway launched App Studio on October 26. You describe the creative tool you need in plain words, and it writes, tests and publishes an app with its own simple screen. The app makes images, video and audio with Runway's models and can pull from your team's Brand Kits and saved references.

The pitch is about know-how, not features. Runway argues that a team's best results usually sit in one person's settings, so everyone else waits for that person. Package those steps as an app and a teammate just uploads a product photo or a script and gets the house look back. A saved Runway session can become an app in one click.

The film examples are in the launch post. An unnamed film studio built an app that turns one location photo and a drawn camera path into a continuous aerial shot, so a director can plan it before anyone books a drone. The same studio uses another to translate a trailer's on-screen titles while keeping the original fonts. The one customer Runway names is the architecture firm KPF, which animates its design renderings. "Runway's App Studio lets us build our own AI tools around the way our teams work," said KPF associate principal Andy Christoforou.

It comes with every paid plan at no extra fee. Building, running and hosting apps all draw on the credits you already have, and anyone using a public link signs in and pays for their own results. Free users can run ready-made and shared apps but cannot build their own.

The catch so far is the evidence. Everything above comes from Runway's own launch post, the film studio is unnamed, and no independent builds are public yet.

Our take: this is useful for any team with a house style. But every app, and everyone who uses it, stays inside Runway, so the know-how a team packages also ties it to the platform.

Source: Runway launch post and App Studio product page, Oct 26, 2026.