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AI · TECH · STARTUPS
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In This Issue
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🎬 AI Video Gen Is Now Inside Adobe Premiere and After Effects
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🎨 CapCut Rebuilt Its Design Tool. Canva Should Be Worried.
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🎙️ ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 Preserves Emotion Across 90 Languages
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⚡ NVIDIA Open-Sourced Real-Time 1080p Video Gen. One GPU. 7 Seconds.
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📱 Firebase + AI Studio Are Building a Full Web App Builder for Your Phone
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💰 Meta Launched a Paid Tier. Every Major AI Platform Now Has One.
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🎬 HIGGSFIELD · ADOBE · VIDEO AI
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AI Video Is Now Inside Your Adobe Timeline.
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Higgsfield launched official plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. From inside your timeline you can now generate images and video, create transitions, reframe shots, remove backgrounds, draw-to-edit, and upscale to 4K. Plugin is free to install and pay-per-generation via credits. AI generation living inside the NLE means professional editors never have to leave their workflow again.
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📌 Free to install. You only pay per generation via credits. Low barrier to try on an existing project.
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⚠️ DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro support not yet confirmed. Large chunk of professional editors still waiting.
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🔭 Every major NLE will have native AI generation within 12 months. Higgsfield just set the standard for what that looks like.
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Get the plugin →
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🎨 CAPCUT · DESIGN · AI CANVAS
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CapCut Rebuilt Its Design Tool From Scratch. Infinite Canvas, AI Agent, Draw-to-Edit. Canva Has a Problem.
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CapCut Design Studio 2.0 launched on web with a fully redesigned infinite AI canvas. You get a real-time AI design agent for co-creation, pencil and brush prompting where you circle or draw on the canvas to trigger edits, smart layer splitting that separates subjects, backgrounds, and text into editable layers automatically, and a "One More" button that instantly expands any idea into variations. 20 free generations per day with a built-in license-free asset library included.
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📌 Web-only for now. Mobile version is coming but no date confirmed yet.
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⚡ Draw-to-edit is the standout feature. Circle a section of your design and describe what you want changed. No selection tools needed.
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🔭 CapCut already owns short-form video. Adding a serious design canvas puts the entire content creation stack in one product. That's Canva's core territory.
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Try Design Studio 2.0 →
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Last week Viktor wrote a brief, built a landing page, and opened a pull request.
Last week, Viktor wrote a campaign brief, built a landing page, opened a pull request, generated a board-ready PDF from live Stripe data, and sent a follow-up email to a churned customer. All from Slack. Same colleague that also pulls your reports and monitors your dashboards. 5,700+ teams. 3,000+ integrations.
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⚡ NVIDIA · FASTVIDEO · OPEN SOURCE
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NVIDIA Open-Sourced Real-Time 1080p Video Generation.
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NVIDIA amplified the open-source release of FastVideo Dreamverse by the haoailab team. Using the LTX-2 model on a single NVIDIA B200 GPU it generates a 30-second 1080p video in approximately 7 seconds, optimized down to 4.2 seconds in testing. Previously the same quality output required 8 Blackwell GPUs and around 25 seconds. The repo and technical blog are both public. For people working on streaming video generation, real-time previews or AI-native video tools, this is the efficiency breakthrough the category needed.
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📌 8x GPU workload collapsed to 1 GPU. That is an 8x cost reduction on inference for the same output quality.
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⚡ Fully open-sourced on GitHub. Build on it, fork it, integrate it. No license restrictions for commercial use.
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🔭 Real-time video generation on a single GPU means live streaming AI video tools are now technically feasible. That product category is about to open up.
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View on GitHub →
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📱 FIREBASE · GOOGLE AI STUDIO · MOBILE DEV
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Firebase and Google AI Studio Are Building a Mobile App That Ships Full Web Apps From Your Phone.
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Firebase announced a partnership with Google AI Studio for a dedicated mobile app coming to Android and iOS. The pitch: describe your app idea from your phone and get a fully functional web app back with a real Firebase backend including auth, realtime database, and hosting. No laptop needed. This builds directly on AI Studio's prompt-to-app momentum that generated 250K Android apps last week and pushes it further, from prototype to production-ready, from a phone screen.
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📌 Not just a prototype. Full Firebase backend with auth, realtime DB, and hosting built in from day one.
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⚡ Coming soon to Android and iOS. No release date confirmed but the teaser page is live at aistudio.google.com/mobile.
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🔭 Laptop-free app development was a fantasy 12 months ago. Google is systematically removing every remaining friction point between idea and shipped product.
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Join the waitlist →
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💰 META · PAID AI · MONETIZATION
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Meta Launched a Paid Subscription.
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Meta rolled out a paid subscription tier for its AI products this week. The free-model era was customer acquisition. The subscription era is the real business. Meta's 3.2 billion daily active users across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook give it the largest potential subscriber base of any AI platform by a significant margin. That distribution advantage is what every other lab is trying to buy.
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📌 Meta has 3.2B daily active users. No other AI company has distribution anywhere close to that starting point.
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⚠️ Free AI tiers across every platform are shrinking. If your workflow depends on free access, now is the time to build a paid-tier budget into your stack.
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🔭 The AI subscription wars are just starting. Expect aggressive bundling from Meta across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads to drive conversion at scale.
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Read more →
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🎙️ ELEVENLABS · DUBBING · CREATOR TOOLS
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ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 Keeps the Actor's Emotion Across 90 Languages. Dubbing finally sounds human.
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Every AI dubbing tool before this worked from transcripts, which meant the dubbed audio was technically accurate but emotionally flat. ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 conditions directly on the original audio performance, preserving tone, pacing, pauses, and intensity in 90+ languages. You can create MrBeast-style excitement dubbed into Spanish, a tense office drama into Polish, and an animated character into Japanese, all retaining the original delivery. Live now in ElevenCreative for creators and ElevenProductions for studios, with a 7-day free trial starting today.
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📌 7-day free trial live now: 1 min on Free, 15 min on Starter, 30 min on Creator+. API access coming soon.
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⚡ For creators: one YouTube video becomes 90+ language versions with natural delivery. No rebuilding the creative. No hiring voice talent per market.
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🔭 Professional dubbing previously cost hundreds of dollars per minute. A hybrid human + AI pipeline through ElevenProductions collapses that cost dramatically. Studios ignoring this will lose localization contracts fast.
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Try Dubbing v2 free →
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Today's Top Launches
Products To Watch Out Today
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🤖 /monitor by Firecrawl
Developer Tools · Artificial Intelligence
Notify your AI agent when the web changes. A useful little launch for anyone building agent workflows that need real-time monitoring.
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📈 Agent A by Ahrefs
Marketing · SEO
Ahrefs’ AI marketing agent, built to turn its data into action. Great for teams that want SEO insight and execution in one place.
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🚀 Ava 2.0
Productivity · Sales · Artificial Intelligence
An AI BDR that runs outbound sales work for you. Built for founders and teams that want pipeline without adding headcount.
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