Author

Sofia Rao

Reporter, Research-to-Product

Sofia tracks the path from research demo to product reality with a focus on what ships, what slips, and why.

Profile

Beat: Lab-to-product transitions, feature maturity, and deployment constraints
Based in: San Francisco, CA
Background: Covers where promising research survives or breaks when exposed to pricing, latency, and moderation rules.

Veo 3.1 Expands Vertical Video and Mobile-Oriented Output (2/24/2026)
Luma Positions Ray3 as a Reasoning Model for HDR Video Workflows (2/24/2026)
Multi-Shot Control Is Becoming the New Minimum, Not the Premium Feature (2/23/2026)
The API Land Grab Is On: Whoever Owns Integration Owns Retention (2/23/2026)
Creator Tools Are Quietly Becoming Enterprise Pipelines (2/23/2026)
OpenAI’s io Branding Retreat Highlights Product-Naming Fragility (2/18/2026)
After the $315M Round, Runway Enters an Execution-Heavy Phase (2/11/2026)
Luma Ships Ray 3.14 With Native 1080p, 4x Faster Generation, and 3x Lower Cost (1/26/2026)
Adobe and Runway Announce Multi-Year Partnership Bringing Gen-4.5 Into Firefly (12/18/2025)
Synthesia Rolls Out Express-2 Full-Body Avatars Across All Paid Plans (12/15/2025)
Runway Launches GWM-1, Its First General World Model Family (12/11/2025)
Kling Kicks Off Omni Launch Week With O1, a Unified Multimodal Video Model (12/1/2025)