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The industry is quietly pricing out the casual user while racing to put generative video inside professional editing suites. Google ended free access to Gemini Flash and Pro, a sharp move that forces developers to pay for what was once free infrastructure. Meanwhile, Runway embedded its generation tools directly into DaVinci Resolve, allowing creators to generate assets right on the timeline without leaving their NLE. Tavus Griffin claimed a 48% pass rate in real-time video Turing tests. On the audio front, SanoTTS demonstrated it can run high-quality synthesis on three-dollar chips, drastically lowering the hardware barrier for voice cloning. Cross-Lingual F5-TTS 2 dropped forced alignment entirely, streamlining multilingual production workflows without manual segmentation.