Today we're launching FilmArena [dot] ai. Biggest release we've ever shipped. The problem: a new SOTA AI image & video model drops every week. @OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2 literally yesterday. 1000 endpoints, no honest answer to "which one is best right now?" Arena AI and Artificial Analysis cracked LLM benchmarking. But for creative AI, they're solving the wrong problem. There is no "best image-to-video model." Best at what? World building? Action Sequences? Expressions? Every category has a different winner, and it flips weekly. So we benchmarked 40+ SOTA models with 2M+ votes across 190 countries. By subcategory. Re-ranked every week as new models ship. With thousands of real humans. But that's just half of it. Then there's the SANDBOX. Higgsfield and other aggregators put models in one place. But creators still juggle twelve subscriptions to do one job. FilmArena collapses it into one tab. Every frontier model. One interface. Same price. Call the best, or call 3 at once and compare. The AI film stack has been fragmented since day one. Today it isn't. Go try it free: filmarena [dot] ai Already wild results from this week: 1. @OpenAI GPT Image 2 (released yesterday) dominates image editing, but @GoogleDeepMind Nano Banana 2 still wins animated 2. @PixVerse_ C-1 beats @dreamina_ai Seedance 2 on animated 3. Veo 3.1 Fast outperforms Veo 3.1 on realistic video And a lot more. Go check it out.

sync. is proud to sponsor Uncanny Valley Fest: SF’s biggest AI filmmaking hackathon! make a short film, music video, or launch video - no camera, just creativity.

Congratulations to the finalists of the #KalaaSetu challenge under @MIB_India's WAVEX Startup Challenge 2025! 🎉 •BIGBUDDY Technology @magicrollAI •Intellemo Adtech @IntellemoAds •Viga Entertainment @viga_et •Mixio Labs @MixioPro •Koyal AI @KoyalAI @PIB_India

Koyal (@KoyalAI) is an agentic AI Filmmaking platform that helps you create cinematic videos with consistent characters, settings, and storylines. It turns music, podcasts, and narration into short-form videos and full episodes with tooling to customize any detail.

🎥 @KoyalAI is an agentic AI filmmaking platform that turns music, podcasts, and narration into short-form videos and full episodes! You can slice and dice your video using consistent characters throughout the scene with their custom tooling. Their agentic workflow uses all the top video models like Veo 3.1 and SORA 2 and they continue to update these as they change every week. They’re already working with international production houses, edutainment companies, and enterprises like Universal Music and T-series & Govt. of India. Videos created on their platform have over 10M views! I’ve tried a few of these over the years and I love Koyal because you start with the audio track. My theory here is that the audio makes or breaks the effective connection you have with a video. Think about the movie trailers that you absolutely loved. The audio was probably a big reason why you like it. Koyal does a great job with this by starting with the audio and building the video around it. Try it out for yourself: koyal.ai/ And here's a snippet of a video I created of my son battling external distractions: drive.google.com/file/d/1tqe… @meh_agarwal and @gauriagarwal99 are a brother-sister team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta and @pioneer_fund is lucky to be able to support them!

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hi i'm mihu! asian, sf-based lookin for more friends in the tech & filmmaking community :) a lil about my background: > worked in CV for 5 years > spent 1 year on standup comedy > created a startup 8 months ago lets grab coffee or do a fun activity this fall ☕️🍁

Mega Dragonite just dropped 🙌

Thank you everyone for coming the @_ai_collective inaugural SV Demo Night at @atlassian last night. It was truly humbling to see 800 people sign up to attend and 50 great companies sign up to demo. While we could only accommodate 200 people and 10 companies in the end, we will be doing this again, so stay tuned! A huge thank you to all of our selected presenters: @bytenite2 by @fabcairo @codeflashai by @misrasaurabh1 @KoyalAI by @meh_agarwal @mosaic_so by @_adishj @prompt_driven by @GregTanaka @sigmamind_ai by @mundrapratik90 @thesysdev by @ParikshitGD @thrads_ai by @anfi_monaco @trottaai by @felabuyi @zerg_ai by @idan_beck Congratulations to our winners for the night, as voted on by audience: 🤖 Most Technical: ZergAI 🎨 Most Creative: Thesys 🏆 Best Overall: KoyalAI Thank you so much to all of the AI Collective SV team: Our fearless leader @chappyasel, and the rest of the SV Team: Shivani, Atisha, and @jonan_zz and the folks from other chapters (Dmytro, Hash, Alex, Shrish) who made the long trek to come support us also! And finally, this wouldn’t have happened without Philipp Braddock and all of the other kind folks at Atlassian who helped support and stay very late on a Thursday night. Thank you and see you next time!

Am I cool @rippling hat with the @opennote hoodie and the @gracegongGG shirt and the @coinbase sweatpants plus @deel socks during the @ycombinator x @MachineCinemaAI x @KoyalAI x @fal uncanny valley fest in the @ycombinator warehouse office Photo: @phytalia

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🎬 We’re co-hosting Uncanny Valley Fest, SF’s biggest AI filmmaking hackathon! Make a short film, music video, or product launch without a camera. 🗓️ Nov 9 @ Y Combinator With @KoyalAI @MachineCinemaAI and @ycombinator 🔗 uncannyfest.com

🚀 Announcing EPOCH's Inaugural Winners! 🚀 We're thrilled to announce the winners of our first-ever EPOCH program - E14 Fund's fast-track opportunity for promising MIT founders! After reviewing almost 150 applications, selecting 37 finalists, and making decisions within 24 hours from interview, we've selected 7 exceptional teams as winners of our first EPOCH funding program. Please join us in congratulating our EPOCH winners: @agenticfabriq - The Secure Connectivity Hub for AI Agents @AutoAce_AI - AI-Powered Calls For Your Dealership @JordanN62600 and @EliasAboufarhat - [Stealth] @KoyalAI - Turning your audio into engaging storytelling video @TryLapis - Market your business to AI Agents @modaicdev - The Collaborative Platform for Building Intelligent Software @yourworkpookie - Every message in one place We're excited to work closely with these founders as they build the next generation of groundbreaking companies. Stay tuned for updates on these founders' progress and announcements about future EPOCH funding opportunities! #MITFounders #VentureCapital #E14Fund #EPOCH #Innovation #Startups #YC