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One of the reasons OpenAI gave up was not only were they losing money, but they were also ridiculously far behind (11th or below in the rankings). The m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"}, {"id": 761126256, "item_id": 47570391, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570391", "by": "_doctor_love", "date": "2026-03-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Veo is plenty good.", "excerpt": "It makes total sense to me that this would happen. The economics around Sora and video generation in general are just not there right now, and if you're a company that's also doing research into these things, that's basically a bottomless pit for money. I think OpenAI ceding the space to Google and others for the moment is probably the smart move. I had fun using Sora and I'm bummed to see it will get removed from th", "context": "", "use_case": "video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Sudden Fall of OpenAI's Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT"}, {"id": 760216673, "item_id": 47513542, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513542", "by": "EugeneOZ", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": "3", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This market will not be abandoned, and other tools already exist:", "excerpt": "This market will not be abandoned, and other tools already exist: https://klingai.com/global/ https://aistudio.google.com/models/veo-3 https://runwayml.com", "context": "", "use_case": "AI video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform"}, {"id": 755607893, "item_id": 47225493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225493", "by": "andreinaheredia", "date": "2026-03-02", "version": "3", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AI-native workflow with Claude Code, Veo3, and Adobe Creative Suite.", "excerpt": "Location: Madrid, Spain Remote: Yes, worldwide Willing to relocate: No, but can travel for work Technologies: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML/CSS/JS, Vite, Cloudflare Pages, Claude Code, Veo3, CapCut Portfolio: https://efectoherlop.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreina-heredia/ Email: contact@efectoherlop.com I'm a freelance graphic and UI designer specializing in technical companies \u2014 healthtech, engi", "context": "", "use_case": "Video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"}, {"id": 752252258, "item_id": 47015766, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015766", "by": "Alisaqqt", "date": "2026-02-14", "version": "3.1", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Veo 3.1 still has the edge on raw visual realism for single shots.", "excerpt": "Kling has been my go-to for I2V since the 2.0 days. The 3.0 release just dropped and it's a pretty significant jump, so I wanted to share what's new and how to actually get API access (including free credits to test it). What's actually new in Kling 3.0? Two models now \u2014 Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni. Biggest deal for me is the multi-shot thing. You describe a scene with dialogue and camera directions in one prompt, a", "context": "", "use_case": "video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 747694914, "item_id": 46730932, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730932", "by": "Nancy1230", "date": "2026-01-23", "version": "3", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Text-to-video generation powered by Kling AI, Veo 3, and Sora", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I built waifu2x.live, a free AI-powered tool for image upscaling and video generation. Features: - Upscale images 2x/4x using Waifu2x AI (great for anime, illustrations, photos) - Text-to-video generation powered by Kling AI, Veo 3, and Sora - No signup required for basic features - Client-side processing for privacy Tech stack: Next.js 14, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, Stripe I've been working on this a", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Waifu2x.live \u2013 Free AI image upscaler (2x/4x) & video generation"}, {"id": 747076258, "item_id": 46692266, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692266", "by": "Vagantem", "date": "2026-01-20", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "mainly ChatGPT & Google Veo", "excerpt": "Hi HN \u2014 I\u2019m Johan, the maker of Roanot (https://www.roanot.com). Roanot is an AI video editor for sales letters, demos, and explainers. The core idea is simple: instead of treating a video as one giant generation, it treats it as a sequence of editable scenes. I started building this after repeatedly running into the same problem with AI video tools: If you change one line of a script, one visual, or one voiceover, t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I built an AI video editor around scenes, not timelines"}, {"id": 745406114, "item_id": 46587882, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587882", "by": "danny_miller", "date": "2026-01-12", "version": "3", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Veo 3 is limited to specific regions", "excerpt": "I built Reelive (https://reelive.ai) \u2013 a platform that gives you access to multiple state-of-the-art AI video generation models through one unified interface. *The problem:* AI video generation is fragmented. Sora 2 requires an OpenAI subscription, Veo 3 is limited to specific regions, Kling requires a Chinese phone number, and each model has different APIs and interfaces. Comparing outputs means juggling multiple ac", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reelive \u2013 Access Sora 2, Veo 3, Kling in one place"}, {"id": 741375090, "item_id": 46335943, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46335943", "by": "johny115", "date": "2025-12-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "takes an engineering degree to generate 4K Nano Banana Image outside of Gemini or even to begin understanding why VEO videos look different", "excerpt": "you should try figuring out all Google products where you can generate images and videos, even attempt to learn how they work, how does billing work, where it uses credits from or API costs charged to where, what are the differences between all the weirdly named products (AI Studio, Vertex, Whisk, ImageFX, Veo Studio, Flow, etc.) with seemingly overlaping purposes the product description of Whisk at https://labs.goog", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"}, {"id": 741328401, "item_id": 46333025, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333025", "by": "simonw", "date": "2025-12-19", "version": "3", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "even more so video models like Veo 3", "excerpt": "What's interesting about Nano Banana (and even more so video models like Veo 3) is that they act as a weird kind of world model when you consider that they accept images as input and return images as output. Give it an image of a maze, it can output that same image with the maze completed (maybe). There's a fantastic article about that for image-to-video models here: https://video-zero-shot.github.io/ > We demonstrat", "context": "", "use_case": "Video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLM Year in Review"}, {"id": 739677569, "item_id": 46229848, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229848", "by": "thecupisblue", "date": "2025-12-11", "version": "3", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Every Veo 3 extended video has absolutely garbled sound and there is nothing you can do about it", "excerpt": "Oh man let me add onto that! 4. If you read about a new Gemini model, you might want to use it - but are you using @google/genai, @google/generative-ai (wow finally deprecated) or @google-ai/generativelanguage? Silly mistake, but when nano banana dropped it was highly confusing image gen was available only through one of these. 5. Gemini supports video! But that video first has to be uploaded to \"Google GenAI Drive\" ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"}, {"id": 738184274, "item_id": 46136517, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136517", "by": "observationist", "date": "2025-12-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Suno and nano banana and Veo and Sora all far exceed the average person's abilities to produce images and videos", "excerpt": "I made some assumptions based on H100s and models around the 4o size. Running them locally changes the equation, of course - any sort of compute that can be distributed is going to enjoy economies of scale and benefit from well worn optimizations that won't apply to locally run single user hardware. Also, for AI specifically, depending on MoE and other sparsity tactics, caching, hardware hacks, regenerative capture a", "context": "", "use_case": "AI video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ecosia: The greenest AI is here"}, {"id": 737952753, "item_id": 46122047, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122047", "by": "echap", "date": "2025-12-02", "version": "3", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Use Veo 3 for high-quality AI editing & enhancement", "excerpt": "Hey HN, I\u2019ve been working on a side project called Magiclip.io, an AI-powered video editing tool designed to make short-form, viral-style content in just a few seconds. It can: \u2022 Generate clips automatically from long videos \u2022 Use Veo 3 for high-quality AI editing & enhancement \u2022 Add dynamic, TikTok-style captions \u2022 Create multiple formats optimized for YouTube Shorts, Reels, and TikTok \u2022 Clean, cut, resize, and styl", "context": "", "use_case": "Video generation and enhancement", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 737859587, "item_id": 46116224, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116224", "by": "culi", "date": "2025-12-01", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "WAN is only behind Google's Veo in image-to-video rankings", "excerpt": "Qwen, Hunyuan, and WAN are three of the major competitors in the vision, text-to-image, and image-to-video spaces. They are quite competitive. Right now WAN is only behind Google's Veo in image-to-video rankings on llmarena for example https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/image-to-video", "context": "", "use_case": "Image-to-video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"}, {"id": 737446448, "item_id": 46090403, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090403", "by": "kokau", "date": "2025-11-29", "version": "3", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we use Veo 3", "excerpt": "Sure, here\u2019s what I can share: we use Veo 3, and Sora 2 is coming soon. For captions, we rely on FFmpeg combined with our own speech-to-text and dynamic subtitle API.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I built Magiclip \u2013 an all-in-one AI studio"}, {"id": 735914771, "item_id": 45994673, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994673", "by": "visioninmyblood", "date": "2025-11-20", "version": "3.1", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Quite impressive", "excerpt": "yes they are pricey but the price will go down over time and then you can switch. vlm.run got access as early customers and are releasing it for free with unlimited generations(till they are bottlenecked by google). some results here combining image gen(Nano Banana pro) with video gen(Veo 3.1) in a single chat https://chat.vlm.run/c/1c726fab-04ef-47cc-923d-cb3b005d6262. This combined the synth generation of a person ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana Pro"}, {"id": 735913329, "item_id": 45994583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994583", "by": "visioninmyblood", "date": "2025-11-20", "version": "3.1", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was able to combine Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3.1 video generation in a single chat and it produced great results.", "excerpt": "Wow! I was able to combine Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3.1 video generation in a single chat and it produced great results. https://chat.vlm.run/c/38b99710-560c-4967-839b-4578a4146956. Really cool model", "context": "", "use_case": "Video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana Pro"}, {"id": 734116337, "item_id": 45882271, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882271", "by": "in-silico", "date": "2025-11-10", "version": "3", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Genie and Veo are definitely closer to her vision than anything World Labs has released publicly", "excerpt": "Genie 3 (at a prototype level) achieves the goal she describes: a controllable world model with consistency and realistic physics. Its sibling Veo 3 even demonstrates some [spatial problem-solving ability](https://video-zero-shot.github.io/). Genie and Veo are definitely closer to her vision than anything World Labs has released publicly. However, she does not mention Google's models at all. This omission makes the b", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spatial intelligence is AI\u2019s next frontier"}, {"id": 733137585, "item_id": 45821099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821099", "by": "kokau", "date": "2025-11-05", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AI video & voice options (Veo-3, NanoBanana)", "excerpt": "Hi everyone, I just launched Magiclip.io on Product Hunt. It's a tool that automatically turns long videos into short, social-ready clips using AI: auto-cutting based on key moments AI subtitles AI video & voice options (Veo-3, NanoBanana) ready-to-post vertical format Built for creators, educators, and founders who want to repurpose content faster. Would love your support & feedback: PH launch: https://www.producthu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": null}]}