Pika H3 Flex is a video generation model post-trained on MiniMax H3, with open weights. Per Pika, it runs 1.8x faster than H3Max, makes a 15 second clip in as little as 7 seconds, and costs up to 80% less. It handles text, image and reference-to-video plus editing, with up to 12 references, native stereo audio and exportable stems. Draft at 768p, upscale to 4K. Use it via the Pika API or Hugging Face.
Cartesia Managed Agents is an end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise conversations. Cartesia co-designed its voice models and agent harness so listening, turn-taking, reasoning, tool calls and speech work as one system, with telephony, knowledge bases and outbound campaigns included. It ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis’ Speech Agent Arena. Launch pricing is $0.03 per minute, 50% off.
Cue is ElevenLabs’ new forced alignment model. It places every character of a transcript on the audio timeline, handles recordings of any length in a single pass, and is built into every Scribe transcription. ElevenLabs reports 179 ms average timing error on full recordings and about half a second to align an hour of audio. It’s also available on its own through the Forced Alignment API.
