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Vortex Next Gen Trends
22 сент., 20:42изменён
Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol & Luna — same day!Anthropic dropped Opus 5.5, while OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna.Opus 5.5: $4 / $20, AA Index 58 (#1), Terminal-Bench 66.4%, GDPval-AA 1846 Elo. Anthropic also promises less “Claude-style” fluff.Sol: $2 / $10, 1.05M context, AA 48. DeepSWE: 68.8% at $2.74/task. Luna: $0.10 / $0.50, AA 37. DeepSWE: 66.6% at just $0.22/task — almost the same score as Sol for 12x less.The catch with Opus: tokens are 20% cheaper, but usage is much higher — 119K tokens/task vs 73K for Opus 5 and 31K for Sol. CodeRabbit saw 40–60% more tokens on code reviews.On AA, Opus 5.5 medium vs Sol max: coding 52.5% vs 43.9%, documents +159 Elo for Opus, business processes roughly tied. Cost: $1.34 vs $1.06/task.Bottom line: Opus 5.5 is currently the smartest model and 2.5x cheaper than Fable. Luna is the big story for high-volume classification and extraction: 10x cheaper than Haiku. Sol is the mid-range option for mass workloads. Sonnet 5.5 reportedly arrives in a couple of weeks.
Vortex Next Gen Trends
20 сент., 21:34
🚨 Qwen-Image 2.1Alibaba just dropped Qwen-Image 2.1 — a unified text-to-image + image editing model with only 7B parameters.🔥 Native 2K 🔥 Up to 10 reference images 🔥 Better identity & consistency 🔥 Masks/scribbles for local editing 🔥 Native RGBA + transparency 🔥 ComfyUI support from day oneThe really interesting part: RGBA editing and object extraction from regular RGB images. Need to test this one.💾 VRAM-wise, 12 GB looks like a realistic target with quantization/offloading. 16 GB should be very comfortable.The previous Qwen Image was ~20B. This one is just 7B.🔗 https://modelscope.ai/models/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1/summary
Vortex Next Gen Trends
16 сент., 18:43
Buttery-smooth 120 FPS Three.js arena action, running entirely in your browser. Meet Arena Shooter.4.6 BILLION Astra tokens burned.20+ vehicles to capture, zombies, day/night combat, 20+ upgrades & perks, and LLM bots trying to destroy you.No signup. No install. Just open and fight.Try https://vortex.channel/vr/soloplay/Vortex Next Gen Trends
15 сент., 23:38
Google just dropped Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking.Gemini 3.8 Live is fast voice-to-voice, understands video/images almost in real time, and automatically switches between 97 languages. (Siri still has ONE.)It can call tools and APIs in the background without interrupting the conversation.Extended Thinking is the version for complex tasks: it can reason and speak simultaneously, handle multi-step processes, and verbally comment on its progress.There’s a Gemini API and AI Studio. Extended Thinking is also coming to Gemini Live, Docs, Gmail, and Keep.API pricing is the same for 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking:Input audio — $0.005/min Output audio — $0.018/min Video/image input — around $0.002/min Text — $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $4.50 per 1M output tokens, including thinking tokens.Google wants to turn Gemini Live from a “voice chat” into aVortex Next Gen Trends
10 сент., 23:30
FLUX.3 Video Edit modelIt can take an existing video and, based on a prompt, change objects, characters, backgrounds, materials, text, effects, and even events within the scene. You can also change dialogue and translate conversations with lip sync.The biggest bombshell: $0.03 per second. Dirt cheap!So:5 sec — $0.15 10 sec — $0.30 15 sec — $0.45But.It currently works with clips up to 15 seconds, and input videos above 720p are downscaled before processing. No masks, additional references, or resolution selection yet.In short:max. 15 sec max. 50 MiBVortex Next Gen Trends
9 сент., 17:36
New iPhone 18 Pro is finally here. Bigger battery, A20 Pro, vapor chamber, 48MP camera, and finally Siri might actually be GOOD.That cherry color though… are you getting it?
Vortex Next Gen Trends
7 сент., 23:47изменён
Viggle is back with an open model — Viggle-Animate — and it’s pretty damn capable.For the first time, they’re releasing weights + code.It replaces characters in video using MiniMax H3. Take a video, grab one frame, manually redraw the character as anything you want, and the model propagates that replacement through the entire clip while preserving motion, camera, and timing.No pose skeleton, segmentation, face tracking, depth, or text prompt. Just the video + one modified frame.Under the hood: a 33.1B MiniMax H3 ref2va fine-tune + DMD2 LoRA. Distillation brings it down to 4 sampling steps.It’s 6× faster than Wan2.2-Animate-14B.The catch: hardware. BF16 needs ~62 GiB for the transformer and peaks at ~80.1 GiB VRAM. They recommend 96 GB+ or CPU offload. It reportedly runs on a 32 GB RTX 5090 via NVFP4, but that quant isn’t public yet. Also, you can’t use a normal characterVortex Next Gen Trends
4 сент., 13:11изменён
So, how are the modelers doing with the new horsepower?Or rather, with the new Astra.Blender MCP + Astra + a bit of Computer Use: feed it a sketch of a steam locomotive, and a few minutes later you get 3,295 objects.https://x.com/tomkrcha/status/2095756085890310311I think that’s it… we’re done.Vortex Next Gen Trends
4 сент., 12:28
GPT-6 Astra: messy rollout, resets, and Plus segregationThree updates: one okay, one very good, one very bad. OpenAI has revealed the limits. $200 Pro gets 200 Astra messages/week. The new $100 Pro gets 50/week, shared with GPT-5.6 Sol Pro. Business Standard gets 15/month, Premium 50/week. So Astra isn’t unlimited even on $200 Pro. Good news: OpenAI says it will compensate rollout delays. For every day Astra is unavailable on a paid account, users get one banked reset to use later Bad news for Plus: OpenAI’s latest help article says, “It is not included with ChatGPT Plus in Chat.” Astra appears in regular Chat as GPT-6 Pro only on Pro $100, Pro $200, Business, and Enterprise Meanwhile, the launch page still says Astra is coming to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. Where Plus gets access is unclear. Maybe Work or Codex?? Current docs confirm Astra there only for Pro So: Astra limits
Vortex Next Gen Trends
4 сент., 11:07
🚨 OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra — and this feels like more than just another model upgrade. Astra is built not only to answer questions, but to actually do work: coding, browsing, research, documents, and complex multi-step tasks. Some standout numbers: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 100% on ExploitBench, a 1.05M-token context window, and up to 128K output tokens. It’s also OpenAI’s first model to reach Critical cyber capability, meaning it can potentially discover and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities with the right tools. The bigger story is the shift itself: AI is moving from “smart assistant” to something you can increasingly delegate entire workflows to.
Vortex Next Gen Trends
3 сент., 09:00изменён
THIS is WILD.Not another candle, not another skincare bottle. I am building a full launch kit for a futuristic smart ring inside Lovart with Seedance 2.5. Lovart is not just a video generator. It is an AI design agent, so I start with one brief: matte graphite smart ring, holographic charging case, neon blue interface, luxury tech launch, 30-second hero video, posters, and social ads.Try Lovart hereWatch full video https://www.tiktok.com/@web3.world.yt/video/7680504360232701205
Vortex Next Gen Trends
29 авг., 21:23
MiniMax H3 Max: 36x faster — and the weights are going openRegular MiniMax H3 in Minimax Design cloud vs H3 Max on fal.Same settings: 15 sec, 720p.H3 took around 6 minutes. H3 Max took around 10 seconds.That’s roughly 36x faster, with comparable quality to my eye.Important caveat: this is not a clean model benchmark. These are different production stacks. Still, 36x is almost certainly not just “more GPUs”.Big news:fal confirmed H3 Max weights will be released.Asked whether Ref2V will also be open:“yes, working on it.”Vortex Next Gen Trends
24 авг., 23:34
Competition is great.It looks like OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to see who can suck up to users harder, just to keep them from jumping off their train and hopping onto the competitor’s.OpenAI went ahead and dropped API prices for SOL 5.6 by 20% for a whole THREE months.Anthropic was like: fine, we’re extending the increased weekly Claude Code limits through August 31.Users: message received, keep it coming. Ox Alpha is completely free anyway, so we’ll be waiting for even more concessions.
Vortex Next Gen Trends
19 авг., 23:16
Hyperion 2.5:Topaz has released Hyperion 2.5 — an SDR→HDR model aimed at 8-bit AI video. Instead of simply repacking footage into 10-bit, it reconstructs additional luminance and color information and outputs 10-bit ProRes, H.265, or 16-bit EXR.This matters because heavily compressed 8-bit GenAI footage quickly falls apart during aggressive grading, compositing, or HDR work. Hyperion processes it before grading, making it behave more like a high-bit-depth source.Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup has already used it to convert GenAI footage to 10-bit ProRes before heavy color work and reduce visible banding.It can’t recover data that never existed — this is AI reconstruction, essentially a smart HDR remaster, not camera RAW.There are still some 16-bit EXR color-management issues, but it’s a promising step toward making GenAI footage more suitable for high-end post. HyperionVortex Next Gen Trends
15 авг., 00:16
Dreamina just added Seedance 2.5 in 1080p 🚀Using the current exchange rate, the pricing comes out to roughly:≈ $0.95 per secondSo a 30-second video costs around $28.50–$30.90.In short: a good working estimate for Seedance 2.5 1080p right now is about $0.95/sec, or roughly $29–31 for 30 seconds.
Vortex Next Gen Trends
12 авг., 00:42
LTX fires back with LTX-2.5 — a new open 22B video/audio world model.Highlights: better motion quality, improved prompt understanding, native multishot with character/voice consistency, 4K HDR, RAW workflow, and precise video editing.The big flex is speed + local inference: 16 GB VRAM minimum, ComfyUI support, open weights, and 10s I2V in 6.8s on 2× GB200.LTX also published comparisons vs H3, Seedance, Kling, Veo and Grok — and Reddit is already roasting the methodology.Marketing or not, this one is worth testing.Vortex Next Gen Trends
7 авг., 12:45
Wan 3.0 is here! 🚀In short: Alibaba has officially launched the public beta of Wan 3.0. The new model can generate videos with audio up to 30 seconds long in 480p, 720p, and 1080p.New features also include automatic duration selection, video continuation, and improved consistency of characters, objects, and scenes across longer clips.https://article.9466.com/news/aKweEQlmAPI pricing:480p — around $0.04 per second720p — around $0.08 per second1080p — around $0.17 per secondThat means a maximum 30-second video costs approximately $1.25 at 480p, $2.50 at 720p, and around $5 at 1080p.But there’s a catch: when using a video reference, Alibaba charges not only for the generated output but also for the duration of the uploaded reference video.Vortex Next Gen Trends
4 авг., 20:12
Guys! AI Video wars are on!FLUX 3 Video is here, and this could be Seedance 2.5’s biggest rival yet. It generates up to 20-second videos in native 1080p with audio, multilingual dialogue, text-to-video, image-to-video, multiple frames, and video continuation. I made this Riftfall trailer with it, and honestly, the cinematic quality looks wild. FLUX 3 is available now through the API and open weights coming soon. Could this beat Seedance 2.5?Vortex Next Gen Trends
3 авг., 01:05
Grok Video 1.5 vs. Seedance 2.5.Vortex Next Gen Trends
30 июл., 13:47
Try New RIFTFALL Demo!Sixty minutes. No level locks, no "first three maps then buy it." The whole game is unlocked — twenty arenas, six weapons, every boss that wants you dead. The only thing counting down is you.Grab the Breacher. Grab the Vulcan, the Arc Rail, the Flamer. Kill a dragon. Kill a tripod the size of a cathedral. Ride a train. Get eaten by something in the dark and try again, faster.When the clock hits zero, it stops. What you did with the hour is on you.Hell was a cakewalk. This is the main course.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4965490/RIFTFALL/
