The Unseen AI Image & Video Tools of Summer 2025

A look at 6 new models from ByteDance, Midjourney, and others that are quietly changing the game.

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AI Image and Video Generation: Key Updates from Jun – Jul 2025

The field of AI image and video generation is rapidly advancing, with several platforms introducing significant updates and new models in Jun and Jul 2025.

Here's an in-depth look at the latest developments:

Hailuo AI: Hailuo 02 Model

Hailuo AI's Hailuo 02 model, launched in June 2025, has quickly gained popularity for its advanced physics-based animation, enabling highly realistic short video clips.

It generates native 1080p HD video and supports richer scene dynamics and prompt-based camera effects for 5–10 second clips.

Key enhancements include improved subject coherence, motion accuracy, and lifelike facial consistency. Hailuo 02 is also cost-efficient compared to competitors.

The platform operates on a freemium model, offering daily free credits and a welcome pack, while paid plans provide faster, watermark-free HD exports and priority access to new models.

Its suite includes specialized models like “Standard” for versatile use, “Live” for animating artwork, “Subject” for character consistency, and “Director” for cinematic camera control.

Chinese Qwen3 and Video Model

Alibaba's Qwen3, released in April 2025, is a next-generation large language model with enhanced multimodal capabilities across text, images, and video.

Featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, it enables efficient scaling and improved reasoning.

The model supports 119 languages and dialects and includes dynamic reasoning modes, allowing users to switch between chain-of-thought inference and rapid generation.

The Qwen3 video model provides tools for chatbot interaction, image and video understanding, image generation, and document processing.

It's optimized for diverse hardware, including Apple’s MLX and Arm-powered mobile devices, allowing efficient on-device AI inference.

HeyGen Video Agent

HeyGen introduced its AI Video Agent in June 2025, delivering a fully automated video production pipeline.

Users can upload images, clips, or text, and the AI handles everything from scriptwriting and shot selection to final video output.

It's designed for maximum efficiency with no editing skills required, ideal for marketing, social media, and product demos.

HeyGen also offers AI avatars, multilingual digital presenters, voice cloning, and more. The Video Agent integrates these features, enabling AI to understand the message and tailor the visuals, pacing, and tone accordingly.

Higgsfield Soul Image Generator

Higgsfield Soul, launched publicly in July 2025, is a viral AI image generator known for high-quality, creative realism. It offers over 50 presets such as "iPhone," "Tokyo Streetstyle," and "Overexposed," helping users achieve stylistic aesthetics without needing technical expertise. Its images are designed with fashion-grade quality, closely resembling real smartphone photos.

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Midjourney Video Model

Midjourney expanded into video generation with its V1 Video Model, released in June 2025.

Users can upload or use Midjourney-generated images to create four 5-second video clips.

Customization options include automatic or manual animation, text-based direction, camera movement control, and motion intensity.

The videos can be extended up to 21 seconds. Priced at $10 per month, each video job is more resource-intensive than image generation.

Midjourney aims to build toward real-time open-world simulations using AI.

Seedance by ByteDance

Seedance 1.0 is a new AI video generator from ByteDance, launched in June 2025.

It quickly rose in ranks on independent benchmarks for text-to-video and image-to-video performance.

Designed to create multi-shot videos with seamless transitions, it maintains strong visual consistency.

Seedance supports a range of styles from photorealism to cyberpunk and includes professional cinematic camera movements.

The Pro version, released mid-June, improves temporal coherence for long-form videos, with outputs up to 1080p at 24 fps. Integration with ByteDance platforms is underway.

Accessibility: New models emphasize ease of use with intuitive interfaces and automated workflows. Free and freemium plans are making these tools more widely available.

Quality & Realism: Advances in motion dynamics, subject integrity, and cinematic presentation are closing the gap with professional productions.

Integration: Multimodal models like Qwen3 unify text, image, and video processing, enabling more complex interactive applications.

Efficiency: Platforms like HeyGen automate entire production pipelines, drastically reducing time and cost.

These developments are reshaping the content creation landscape, making high-quality image and video generation faster, cheaper, and more accessible than ever.

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