Why image and video tools are becoming AI’s biggest growth engine, not chatbots

Why image and video tools are becoming AI’s biggest growth engine, not chatbots

The biggest AI upgrade is not text. It is visuals. New data shows that image and video generation features are now the strongest drivers of app downloads. These updates are outperforming traditional chatbot improvements and reshaping how AI products grow. When visuals improve, downloads spike The pattern is clear across major apps. According to Appfigures,…

The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked – VIDEO

The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked – VIDEO

AI dictation apps have come a long way in a short time. For years they were slow and inaccurate — unless you spoke with a particular accent and enunciated clearly. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have changed that, producing systems that can decipher speech more accurately while retaining enough context to…

From URL To Video: A Faster Way For E-commerce Sellers To Create Product Videos (2026)

From URL To Video: A Faster Way For E-commerce Sellers To Create Product Videos (2026)

Quick Decision Framework Who This Is For: Shopify and eCommerce sellers at any revenue stage who are managing product pages with static images and want to understand why those pages are underconverting in 2026, and what a practical, scalable video content strategy looks like without a production team. Skip If: You already have a systematic…

The Honor 600 series will bring the much-improved AI Image to Video 2.0 feature

The Honor 600 series will bring the much-improved AI Image to Video 2.0 feature

Last year, Honor introduced the Image to Video tool (powered by generative AI) with the Honor 400 series. The company says that its users have been enjoying the feature and have generated over 13.4 million seconds of AI video since then – it would take 155 days of non-stop watching to see all of that!…

BearJam Reports Growing Adoption of AI Video Across Client Projects

BearJam Reports Growing Adoption of AI Video Across Client Projects

BearJam has observed a strong increase in AI video enquiries, with client briefs rising from one in April 2025 to twelve by January 2026. The award-winning London production company delivers both conventional video services and AI-enhanced content for clients across multiple sectors. This upward trend has developed over time. In April 2025, the company received…

Google Launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a More Cost-Effective AI Video Generator Model

Google Launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a More Cost-Effective AI Video Generator Model

Google is launching a cost-effective version of its Veo 3 AI video generator, Veo 3.1 Lite, the company announced Tuesday, highlighting Google’s renewed commitment to all forms of generative AI.  Google says that its latest addition will round out the Veo product family to give developers flexibility based on their needs. The company says the new…

With Sora shuttered, smaller video AI apps surge into the spotlight

With Sora shuttered, smaller video AI apps surge into the spotlight

A week after OpenAI said it would shutter its artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, rival tools like Kling AI and RunwayML are already gaining ground. Kling AI, a video generator app owned by China’s Kuaishou Technology, saw global weekly active users jump 4% to an average of 2.6 million last week from the prior week,…