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Amazon Bedrock now offers TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 for analysing videos of up to two hours without a separate indexing step. The model can generate timestamped summaries, user-defined JSON segments and multimodal answers using reference images. It is available on demand in US West (Oregon), with usage billed through AWS Marketplace.
Google has launched agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite. The API feature lets models actively inspect video frames, audio and transcripts, aiming to cut token use and analysis cost while improving retrieval, counting and anomaly-detection tasks for developers working with long recordings.
Baseten says its optimised Wan 2.2 runtime can generate a video clip in 2.75 seconds, 53.6 times faster than its baseline. A guarded public demo runs until 31 July, while the company acknowledges that four-step distillation can trade some visual quality for speed.