Ai Video

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two weeks ago, PixVerse quietly closed a Series C extension that brought its total fundraising to $439 million. Alibaba joined. So did Mirae Asset, BlueFocus, and half a dozen other institutional names. The company crossed unicorn status — that’s a $1 billion+ valuation — and then announced something that made me stop scrolling: they’re not just doing video anymore. They’re building a real-time game engine powered by the same AI that generates their videos. If you’re a solo creator or builder, this is one of those funding rounds that actually matters to you. Here’s why. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been generating AI videos for six months now, and the question I get most isn’t “which tool is best?” It’s “how much does this actually cost?” Because for solo builders, the math matters. You don’t have a production budget. You have a side project and a dream. So when PixVerse — which just raised $439 million and crossed a $2 billion valuation — announced a rate of $4.80 per minute of image-to-video generation, I did what any reasonable person would do: I opened a spreadsheet. What I found changed how I think about AI video tools entirely. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I built a faceless YouTube channel pipeline without spending a dollar on paid tools. Not because I’m cheap — because I wanted to know if the “passive income with AI YouTube” hype actually holds up when you strip away the expensive subscriptions everyone recommends. The answer is: it works, but not the way the gurus sell it. Here’s exactly how I did it, what actually works, and where the free tier hits its ceiling. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been waiting for this. Not because AI video is new — tools like Runway and Sora have been around for a while — but because none of them let you just… talk to the video and watch it change. Until now. Google dropped Gemini Omni at I/O 2026 on May 19th, and it’s fundamentally different from every AI video tool I’ve tested. You don’t need a timeline. You don’t need to learn software. You describe what you want changed, and it changes it — while keeping your characters, lighting, and objects consistent across edits. ...