#Creative
Curated coverage on «Creative»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.

ACE-Step 1.5 from ACE Studio outperforms Suno v5 and runs music generation locally
The open-source model ACE-Step 1.5 generates music locally with 4 GB of VRAM, produces a full track in seconds, and scores higher than Suno v5 on SongEval.

Alibaba led a 2 billion yuan round for ShengShu in China's AI video race
Alibaba's cloud unit led a 2 billion yuan investment round for ShengShu, a young player seeking to strengthen its position in China's overheated AI video market.

TAPe raised classification accuracy to 77% and compared the results with YOLO on a small COCO dataset
The TAPe authors showed how object-boundary segmentation, abandoning the learning rate, and refining classification boosted performance on COCO, and why YOLO barely…

Google added "Notebooks" to Gemini for storing materials and working on topics

Alibaba shifts Qwen strategy: focus moves from open source to paid AI services

Former Apple engineers created Button, a wearable AI button, without explaining what it's for

Mozilla accused Microsoft of pushing Copilot and called for restoring user choice

DeepSeek prepares V4 launch for late April 2026 and changes how its models operate
DeepSeek's founder confirmed that the flagship V4 model will be released in late April 2026: the company is preparing a multilevel operating mode and will launch it…

AvatarBox on HeyGen turns photos into talking videos right in Telegram in 2 minutes
Powered by HeyGen, AvatarBox turns a photo and text into a short video right in Telegram: you can choose a voice, frame format, emotions, and get a clip with…

AWS Shows How to Build a Virtual Fitting Room for Retail on Nova Canvas

Google, Tambo, and GenUI: three approaches to AI interfaces built on the fly

Hostinger became the leader among AI website builders, and the market finally matured in 2026

Gallup: half of employees in the US already use AI at work, and the share keeps growing

OpenAI added Spotify, Uber, and DoorDash integrations to ChatGPT: how to use them
ChatGPT now has direct integrations with Spotify, Canva, Figma, Uber, Expedia, and other services: accounts can be connected in settings and actions can be launched…

Google added prompt-based control of AI avatars to Vids and video export to YouTube
Google updated the Vids video editor: AI avatars can now be given actions via text, their appearance and background can be changed, and finished videos can be sent…









