Denoised

A hidden brain spontaneously developed inside an AI neural network — and that's just one of the stories this week. Addy and Joey break down Seedream 5.0 Pro's new precise image editing, Meta's Muse model and its controversial opt-out Instagram remix feature, and what the latest MCP integrations for Unreal Engine and ComfyUI mean for your production workflow.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Google DeepMind puts $70M into A24. Anthropic's Fable model launched — then got pulled within days. Krea 2 goes open weight, and LTX Trainer brings video LoRAs to the open-source world. Adobe acquires Topaz Labs.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Addy and Joey recap AI on the Lot's biggest announcements: Amazon MGM's Gen AI Creators Fund, their new AI production platform Project Nara, and the backlash that drove Jorge Gutierrez out of the program. Plus, new agentic tools from Drumina and Luma. Then, a wild box office weekend — Obsession and Backrooms both outperformed The Mandalorian. What does it mean for indie film and AI-assisted production?

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Joey returns from Google I/O with hands-on tests of Omni, Google's new video world model, comparing it head-to-head with Runway Aleph 2 on the same shots. Plus: Demis Hassabis puts AGI three years out, Google Flow gets agentic workflows, and Google Pics turns AI-generated images into editable layers.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Google I/O is around the corner, and Addy and Joey unpack what's expected — from a potential Veo HDR upgrade to DeepMind's new storywriting AI tool, Fabula, built alongside working screenwriters. They also cover Image-Blaster, an open-source tool converting single images into full 3D environments, Netflix's new in-house AI animation studio, and what a viral Monet experiment reveals about how people actually respond to AI-labeled work.
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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Lightcraft's browser-based virtual camera, Claude integrating with Blender and Adobe, Kling AI hitting 4K — here's what shifted in film tech while we were on the road.

Joey returns from NAB with a roundup of under-the-radar tools worth paying attention to, including Lightcraft Spark, a browser-based previs platform that lets you scan locations with Gaussian splats and move a virtual camera without touching Unreal Engine. He also breaks down Selects by Cutback, an AI-assisted editing tool building toward agentic workflows via Claude and MCP servers, and Martini, an AI filmmaking platform with a standout angle-repositioning feature that turns a 2D frame into a navigable 3D space.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Blackmagic just loaded DaVinci Resolve with AI tools that can clone voices, reshape actor performances, remove motion blur, and simulate cinematic depth of field — and it's all built in. In this pre-NAB episode, Joey and Addy break down the most notable Resolve updates, including AI CineFocus, Face Age Transformer, and IntelliSearch clip analysis.
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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Blackmagic just loaded DaVinci Resolve with AI tools that can clone voices, reshape actor performances, remove motion blur, and simulate cinematic depth of field — and it's all built in. In this pre-NAB episode, Joey and Addy break down the most notable Resolve updates, including AI CineFocus, Face Age Transformer, and IntelliSearch clip analysis. 

They also cover Adobe Premiere's completely redesigned color mode and the new Frame Drive feature, plus an under-the-radar peer-to-peer editing tool called Strata Connect that turns your local hard drive into a virtual cloud drive with no storage fees. Rounding it out: Sony's new 3D world scanner pipeline in XYN, NVIDIA's Lyra 2.0 spatial world model, and a World Labs Spark update for browser-based Gaussian splat viewing.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Netflix just open-sourced an AI model that removes objects from video and corrects the physics — and that's only one of several AI updates worth tracking this week. Addy and Joey break down Netflix's VOID model, early leaks of what looks like GPT-Image-2, the underwhelming public rollout of Seedance 2.0 in the US, Google's Gemma 4 open-source local model, and the honest, unfiltered experience of running AI agents for real-world scheduling and production workflows. Plus: Artemis moon mission camera nerding.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.

Netflix just open-sourced an AI model that removes objects from video and corrects the physics — and that's only one of several AI updates worth tracking this week. Addy and Joey break down Netflix's VOID model, early leaks of what looks like GPT-Image-2, the underwhelming public rollout of Seedance 2.0 in the US, Google's Gemma 4 open-source local model, and the honest, unfiltered experience of running AI agents for real-world scheduling and production workflows. Plus: Artemis moon mission camera nerding.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the personal views of the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their respective employers or organizations. This show is independently produced by VP Land without the use of any outside company resources, confidential information, or affiliations.