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The real story today is not the race for bigger parameters but the frantic consolidation of workflows, as creators demand tools that fit into existing pipelines rather than replace them. Runway launched Enhance Frame Rate to solve interpolation headaches while Vidu S2 introduced real-time video generation that reacts to user input. Meanwhile Anthropic merged Cowork into Claude and added Docs and Slides support. Higgsfield unified access to over fifty models via a single API even as Parallel claimed to cut research costs in half with GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI restricted GPT-6 Sol and Luna to Work interfaces while leaks point to a massive next-step model codenamed Bel. NVIDIA moved Southeast Asian AI pilots to production with open models, grounding the hype in actual deployment.