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LTX-2.5 can generate a 10-second AI video from an image in just 6.8 seconds on Nvidia superchips — and it's open weights

LTX, the open world model company spun out of Lightricks, today released LTX-2.5, the newest version of its open-weights video and "world" model and it arrives natively integrated into ComfyUI, the node-based workflow tool that has become the de facto prototyping environment for open generative media, through a strategic day-one launch partnership between the two companies.

The model is available now as open weights on Hugging Face, inside ComfyUI, and through the LTX API for teams that want managed generation. It is free to use for organizations under $10 million in annual recurring revenue; larger companies negotiate a license. LTX says its models have passed 33 million downloads, making the LTX family the most-used "open world" model line on the market.

Ahead of the launch, VentureBeat spoke exclusively with LTX co-founder and CEO Zeev Farbman and ComfyUI co-founder and CEO Yoland Yan about the release, the partnership,...

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Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focused on OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and the latest model releases, a quieter transformation is taking place in the investor base

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An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children

Awarning that AI “slop” is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. The document underneath is more modest, and far more uncertain, than the coverage implies. The source is a report published

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CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack

America’s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world’s AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, confirming that the flaw is being used in real-world attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency made

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How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?

A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 million cars. The figure

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Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children

CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack

How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?