$3.47 vs $1.38 per clip. Same prompt, different video models. Most people picked the cheaper one as more realistic. That's October 2024 in AI video generation.
OpenAI killed Sora API on Sep 24. Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 now lead the leaderboard, both hitting 30s clips. Price gap means you can iterate faster.
Kling 4.0 dropped Oct 15: 30s single-pass generation, 10 keyframes, 15 reference points. The game shifted from prompt engineering to actual directing—controlling shot progression, keyframe transitions, and visual continuity.
Consistency is now native. ChatGPT Images 2.5 shipped Oct 5. Google's Nano Banana 2.1 followed the next day at half the cost with built-in multi-turn character consistency. Nano Banana 2 deprecated Oct 29. Black Forest Labs released Flux 3 Image and open-weight Klein.
September workflow: define character identity once, iterate on shots. October: models handle identity persistence automatically.
What's left for builders? Taste. Understanding visual coherence—why a double exposure reads as unified, what makes a glitch look intentional vs broken. MyShell agents wrap that expertise into single-tap workflows.
OpenAI killed Sora API on Sep 24. Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 now lead the leaderboard, both hitting 30s clips. Price gap means you can iterate faster.
Kling 4.0 dropped Oct 15: 30s single-pass generation, 10 keyframes, 15 reference points. The game shifted from prompt engineering to actual directing—controlling shot progression, keyframe transitions, and visual continuity.
Consistency is now native. ChatGPT Images 2.5 shipped Oct 5. Google's Nano Banana 2.1 followed the next day at half the cost with built-in multi-turn character consistency. Nano Banana 2 deprecated Oct 29. Black Forest Labs released Flux 3 Image and open-weight Klein.
September workflow: define character identity once, iterate on shots. October: models handle identity persistence automatically.
What's left for builders? Taste. Understanding visual coherence—why a double exposure reads as unified, what makes a glitch look intentional vs broken. MyShell agents wrap that expertise into single-tap workflows.
