Luma Reframe, Figma has massive upgrade, Leonardo AI Motion 2.0
All the news for the AI world for creatives
In today’s Newsletter:
1️⃣ Luma AI has a powerful Reframe feature
2️⃣ Figma launches AI tool for building apps and websites
3️⃣ Leonardo AI gets serious about AI Video
4️⃣ Quick news you may have missed
5️⃣ Prompt Fight: Aquarium Helmet
6️⃣ Video AI of the Week
Let’s dive in.
Luma AI has a powerful Reframe feature
Luma Reframe allows users to resize and outpaint videos or images into any format without cropping, offering creative control to adapt content for various platforms. It supports up to 10-second videos and six aspect ratios, available for all paid plans.
Why this is important?
This eliminates forced cropping, preserving the original vision while enabling seamless repurposing for different projects, enhancing efficiency and creative freedom for creators.
Figma launches AI tool for building apps and websites
At Config 2025, Figma unveiled transformative features to streamline design-to-production workflows, emphasizing AI and expanded creative tools. Key launches include:
Figma Sites: A no-code website builder for designing and publishing responsive websites directly from Figma. It offers 50+ templates, breakpoints, and interactions like parallax scrolling, with CMS support planned. It competes with Webflow, simplifying workflows for designers by keeping everything in one platform.
Figma Make: An AI-powered prompt-to-code tool that turns designs or text into functional prototypes and apps. It enables rapid iteration and collaboration, bridging design and development for faster product ideation. Available in beta for paid users, it’s a game-changer for prototyping efficiency.
Figma Draw: Enhanced vector editing tools, including brushes, text-on-path, and new fills/effects. It empowers designers to create detailed illustrations within Figma, reducing reliance on tools like Adobe Illustrator and boosting creative expression.
Grid: A new Auto Layout option offering flexible, responsive grid systems. It simplifies complex layouts, aligning with modern web standards like CSS Grid, and enhances design precision and adaptability.
Figma Buzz: A marketing-focused tool for bulk asset creation using AI and templates. It streamlines high-volume content production, ensuring brand consistency and saving time for marketing teams.
Why this is important?
These features expand Figma’s ecosystem, unifying design, development, and marketing workflows. This shift positions Figma as a central hub for product creation, enhancing efficiency and creativity in a competitive digital landscape
Leonardo AI gets serious about AI Video
Leonardo AI has released Motion 2.0, an advanced AI animation tool that transforms static images or text prompts into dynamic 5-second video clips.
Users can animate generated or uploaded images or create videos from text prompts, with options like Prompt Enhance for better outputs and Private Mode for confidentiality.
Quick news you may have missed
Mistral drops frontier-level model at 8x lower cost: The Paris-based startup unveiled Mistral Medium 3, which approaches or outperforms Claude Sonnet 3.7 and GPT-4o on multiple benchmarks while costing less than DeepSeek’s v3.
Lightricks launches Open-Source AI Video model with 30x speed:
LTX Video 13B is an open-source AI video model offering enhanced scale and precision. A new multi-scale rendering feature allows creators to gradually enhance video details, while upgraded controls enable camera motion, keyframe editing, multi-shot sequencing, and scene-level adjustments.
OpenAI is in the process of acquiring coding start-up Windsurf for ~$3B, its largest buyout to date, strengthening its developer tools against rivals like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.
Prompt Fight: Aquarium Helmet
Let’s see how the top AI Art generators compare to each other.
Cinematic photo of a glass dome-shaped helmet, filled with an aquarium-like environment containing a single colorful fish swimming amidst coral-like structures. The body resembles a Rococo space-age robot praying. The robot's body is spotless, minimalistic, with golden ornaments. He is wearing unusual, luxurious fabrics. The robot is standing in a forest with bright morning golden hour sunlight, the sun is shining through the glass of the helmet, cinematic backlighting, cinematic still
Which one is the best for you?
Video AI of the Week
Finalists for the third annual AI Film Festival are now live. See this year's full list here. Winners to be announced in NY on June 5th.
Which is your favorite?
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