Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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HUGE AI NEWS: PersonaPlex, Step3 VL, Qwen3 TTS, FlowAct R1, VideoMama, VIGA & more #ai #ainews #aitools #aivideo

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Sources in order of mention:
VIGA: fugtemypt123.github.io/VIGA-website
VideoMama cvlab-kaist.github.io/VideoMaMa
LightOnOCR huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B
PersonaPlex research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex
CoDance lucaria-academy.github.io/CoDance
Waypoint huggingface.co/blog/waypoint-1
OmniTransfer pangzecheung.github.io/OmniTransfer
Qwen3 TTS tutorial youtu.be/eC8mZceIy5k
LuxTTS github.com/ysharma3501/LuxTTS
VibeVoice ASR huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR
FrankenMotion coral79.github.io/frankenmotion
FlowAct R1 grisoon.github.io/FlowAct-R1
Linum V2 linum.ai/field-notes/launch-linum-v2
Motion 3to4 motion3-to-4.github.io
Step3 VL stepfun-ai.github.io/Step3-VL-10B
Motive research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/projects/MOTIVE

0:00 AI news intro
1:00 VIGA
2:32 VideoMama
4:48 LightOnOCR
6:50 PersonaPlex
11:52 CoDance
13:40 Waypoint
15:19 OmniTransfer
18:38 Artlist
20:26 Qwen3 TTS
21:56 LuxTTS
24:01 VibeVoice ASR
27:10 FrankenMotion
29:24 FlowAct R1
33:45 Linum V2
35:15 Motion 3to4
36:30 Step3 VL
38:48 Motive


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