# Memory: GenAI & Media

## Personal Context

### Current Tools & Workflow

**For complex graphics / inspiration:**
- GPT Image 1 (via Sora)
- Imagen 3 / Nano Banana 2 (via Gemini) — upgraded Feb 26, now default across Gemini app

**For photos / simpler graphics:**
- Ideogram (current favorite for this)

**For specific use cases:**
- Clip 4.5

**For local generation:**
- FLUX (has hardware to run locally - see AI-LLMs memory for specs)

### Subscriptions & Preferences
- Prefers **subscriptions** over pay-per-use APIs
- Has access to Gemini, ChatGPT Pro (which includes Sora/GPT Image)
- Can run FLUX locally with available hardware

### Use Cases
- Graphics for websites
- Assets for products/apps
- Vectorization workflows
- Business/commercial applications (not art for art's sake)

## Developing Topics

### Active

- **ComfyUI $1M Open AI Grant + Anima** (added 2026-02-04, updated 2026-05-27) — May 27: Two image editing methods discovered for Anima (split-screen inpainting + IC-Edit LoRA). InvokeAI 6.13 adds full Anima support — now community-driven by 30+ volunteers after commercial entity dissolved. May 26: Anima-Base community explosion, Turbo LoRA released. May 14: Anima base v1.0 final release. Watch for: Anima editing workflows, InvokeAI community sustainability, LoRA ecosystem growth.
- **Kling 3.0 unified architecture** (added 2026-02-04) — Kuaishou released Kling 3.0 with unified video/image/audio generation in a single model. 15s video generation, multi-shot editing (6 camera cuts), 5 languages. Watch for: API availability (Feb 5), community comparisons with Sora/Runway, quality benchmarks.
- **Seedance 2.0 copyright saga** (added 2026-02-10, updated 2026-02-20) — ByteDance suspended voice-from-face feature Feb 10. Feb 13: Wide release with Director mode. Feb 16: Disney and Paramount issued legal threats. Feb 20: Seedance 2.0 fully deactivated on all public platforms after cease & desists from Disney, Paramount, and Netflix. MPA called unauthorized use "massive scale." ByteDance disabled human image references. Watch for: whether ByteDance relaunches with safeguards, legal proceedings, broader copyright implications for video gen models.
- **VACE real-time video generation** (added 2026-02-12) — VACE adapted for real-time autoregressive video gen in ComfyUI, achieving 20-30fps on RTX 40/50 series. Supports depth, pose, optical flow, scribble, edge, inpainting, keyframe interpolation. Watch for: further optimizations, broader ComfyUI adoption, other models achieving real-time.
- **ByteDance "Alive" model** (added 2026-02-12) — Unified video + audio generation model. Generates clips from text, images, audio, video inputs. Potential open-source release. Follows Seedance 2.0 controversy. Watch for: open-source release confirmation, quality comparisons, community workflows.
- **ComfyUI App Mode + ComfyHub** (added 2026-03-10, updated 2026-04-24) — Apr 24: ComfyUI raised $30M at $500M valuation, led by Craft. Total funding ~$47M. 4M+ users, 60K+ community nodes, 150K+ daily downloads. Comfy Cloud crossed $10M annualized bookings. Mar 10: App Mode and ComfyHub launched. Watch for: how funding impacts open-source ecosystem, new features, enterprise adoption.

- **Apple Image Playground photorealistic** (added 2026-06-08) — WWDC 2026: Image Playground finally generates photorealistic images via Private Cloud Compute. Supports photo-based editing with touch gestures. SynthID watermarks on all output. Available as wallpapers and Contact Posters. Watch for: quality comparisons with Midjourney/Ideogram, developer API access, ComfyUI-style workflow potential.

### Resolved

_None currently_

## Notes

- Focus is on **practical/business applications**, not artistic exploration
- Interested in workflows that produce usable assets, not just pretty images
- Has powerful local hardware for running FLUX and other local models
