2 Million Users: Thank You for Building with Venice

Venice has reached 2 million users — a major milestone for our community. Thank you to everyone who has made this journey possible. Here's everything we shipped this week.

New Models

We have added several powerful new models to the Venice platform:

Text Models:

• Kimi K2.5 Model — Offering enhanced performance and capabilities at competitive pricing

• GLM 4.7 Flash Model — Access restrictions lifted, making this powerful model available to all API users

Image & Video Models:

• xAI Grok Imagine — Enhance your creative capabilities with new models for text-to-image, image editing, and video

• Vidu Q3 Video — Publicly accessible video models now available for a wide range of applications and use cases

• Chroma — Now available to all Pro and API users for high-quality, uncensored image generation 

Character Video Generation

Character Video Generation — Create short videos featuring your AI characters. Uses Qwen Edit for image creation and Grok for video and audio production, bringing your characters to life in engaging video format.

• Generate videos with your custom characters

• Integrated image and video/audio pipeline

Venice AI Skill on OpenClaw

Venice AI OpenClauw Skill — Venice is now available as a comprehensive skill on OpenClaw, integrating text, models, embeddings, audio, and web search capabilities. Link:  https://clawhub.ai/jonisjongithub/venice-ai

Venice is now also discoverable on Clawdhub, making it easier to find and use Venice skills.

Combine Images

Merge multiple images into one composite and edit them together with AI-powered blending.

• Multi-Image Selection — Upload and select multiple images to combine into a single composition

• AI-Powered Blending — Intelligent blending that seamlessly merges your images

• Model Selection — Choose from multiple image models including Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 1.5, Flux 2 Max, Seedream 4.5, and Qwen-Edit

Available now for Pro users and via API

Venice Video Studio

Venice Video Studio — A dedicated workspace for AI video generation. Create videos from text prompts, images, or existing videos with our standout multi-model generation feature that lets you compare results side-by-side.

Key features:

• Generate videos from text prompts, images, or existing videos

• Multi-model generation to compare results across different models

• Side-by-side comparison view

• Available in the App for all users

API Playground

API Playground — Test Venice API endpoints directly in your browser without writing code. After successful alpha testing, the interactive API Playground is now available to all users.

Features:

• Test text, image, and video generation endpoints

• View real-time responses

• Copy code snippets for your integration

App

• Agent Activity — Enhanced workflow with tool calling support for improved user experience

• Cloud SQL Support — Added support for Cloud SQL Socket URLs for Google Cloud SQL users

• Log Enhancements — Improved logging with migration status and modified request and response logs

• Container Architecture — Auto-generated container wrapper structs for improved system architecture

• Model Indicator — New model indicator SVG added for better model representation

• Video Transition — New feature for video transition models with start and end frame specification

• Logo Visibility — Enhanced logo visibility with deliberate design choice

• Image Display — Improved image display in chat with clearer images

• Design Capabilities — Significant enhancement to project's design capabilities with new files and modifications

• Visual Indicators — Added visual indicators for easy issue identification

• Temporary Video Warning — Modified temporary video warning banner for simple mode

• File Upload — Improved file upload with processing indicator and explicit accept attribute

• File Picker — Updated file picker to only allow image files for image editing modes

• Venice Video Studio — Introduced multi-model video generation comparison tool

• Persistent Video Playback — Added persistent video playback in Venice Video Studio

• Video Deletion — Introduced ability to delete individual errored videos from queue

• Translation Updates — Updated translation files for new hint text

• Model Privacy — Integrated existing components to display model's privacy status consistently

• Keyboard Handler — Added keyboard handler to video studio prompt textarea

• Thumbnail Visibility — Improved thumbnail visibility in video studio

• Thumbnail Previews — Introduced thumbnail previews for video queue items

• Video Audio — Introduced dynamic video audio behavior with play on click and mute on hover

• Character Insights — Introduced character insights feature with automatic extraction and new 'Insights' tab

• Widescreen Support — Added support for widescreen 21:9 aspect ratio

• Max Prompt Limit — Introduced max prompt limit for improved user experience

• Chart Component — Created chart component to visualize daily messages

• Video Studio Input — Enhanced overall functionality of Video Studio input panel

• Audio Support — Introduced audio support status display for models in Venice Video Studio

• Browser Notifications — Introduced browser notifications for video completion

• Video Studio Navigation — Modified video studio navigation to always display navigation button

• Chat Inference — Improved chat inference with hidden searching and first token

• Model Selection — Improved model selection process in video studio

• Chat Input Mode — Introduced automatic switching of chat input mode to image mode

• Video Card Width — Updated Venice Video studio UI to enforce minimum video card width

• Recent Images — Introduced feature to quickly select from recent generated images

• Video Generation Time — Introduced feature to log and display video generation time

• Model Selector — Improved model selector with click instead of hover

• Vidu Logo — Added new Vidu video model logo

• Video Generation Retry — Introduced feature to retry character video generation with uncensored model

• Video Direction — Introduced comprehensive video direction for character video generation

• Image Placeholders — Improved image placeholders to appear immediately and render as they complete

• Reasoning Enabled — Introduced 'Reasoning Enabled' toggle in Character Settings modal

• Responsive Layout — Improved responsive layout for consistent user experience

• Character Mode — Introduced new CharacterModeToggle component

• Story Prompts — Introduced feature to provide suggested story prompts for character interactions

• Image Context — Improved user experience by providing essential context for generated images

• Context-Aware Prompt — Introduced setting to disable Context-Aware Prompt Suggestions

• Video Playback — Improved video playback behavior in VideoStudio component

• Refresh Button — Introduced refresh button to conversation suggestions feature

• Prompt Collections — Made prompt collections in Generated Videos section collapsible

• Video Playback Control — Introduced feature to ensure only one video plays at a time

• Chat Output — Enhanced chat output rendering with new components and modifications

• Confirmation Modal — Introduced consistent themed confirmation modal for video deletion actions

• Image Download — Introduced feature to download images after background removal

• Button Visibility — Improved visibility of 'Hide Conversation Suggestions' button

• Search Button — Moved search button next to notifications button and added back button

• Entity Insights — Enhanced entity insights feature with updates to useInsightExtractor.ts hook

• Post Detail Modal — Improved PostDetailModal.tsx file to address scrolling issues

• Story Suggestions — Changed initial value of storySuggestionsEnabled to false

• Action Menu — Updated action menu to remain usable during image and video generation

• Translation Updates — Updated various language files and translations.json file

• Document Upload Button — Updated icon used in DocumentUploadButton component

• Template Columns — Extracted duplicate template columns to a constant and updated panel border styling

• Video Fullscreen — Introduced changes to VideoFullscreenProvider.tsx file and updated translation files

• Recent Images Helper — Introduced feature to display video studio input images in recent images helper

• Edit Image Modal — Introduced ability to paste images directly into Edit Image modal

• Video Gallery — Updated video gallery to maintain 2-column layout until xl breakpoint

• User Experience — Improved user experience with various updates and enhancements

• Responsive Video Gallery — Introduced responsive video gallery grid that adapts to different screen widths

Wallet and Payments:

• Clear Guidance — Understand why the submit button is disabled when watching videos or using credit-billed models without logging in

• Easy Credit Management — Get clear explanations and direct access to purchase more credits when running low in the Video Studio

• Improved Payment Options — Enhanced payment method displays and updated translations for a smoother user experience

• Expanded Access — Free users can now access auto top-up and billing sections for more convenient account management

Performance:

• Persistent Video Generations — Completed video creations are now saved across page refreshes for a seamless editing experience

Mobile App

• Image Sharing — Easily share images directly to the app and attach them to chats

• Responsive Design — Improved layout and responsiveness for a better user experience

• Model Updates — Enhanced model definitions for more accurate and efficient processing

• Technical Updates — Behind-the-scenes improvements for smoother app performance

• App Version Display — Quickly view your app version in the account info section

• Clear Pricing — Subscription prices now clearly displayed in US dollars

• Screen Lock Prevention — Phone screen stays on during tasks like voice recording and AI processing

• Advanced Query — Expanded query functionality for more powerful searching

• Folder Management — Easily create, delete, and manage mobile folders and conversations

• Toast Message Improvement — Update toast messages now fit neatly on mobile screens with reduced font size and text

API

• API Playground — Rolling out to all users after successful alpha testing

• Multi-File Update — Improves overall system performance and functionality by updating multiple files and adding new ones.

• Single File Modification — Enhances user experience by modifying a single file to improve its functionality.

• Chat System Expansion — Expands the features or improves the existing chat system for better user interaction.

• Error Message Improvement — Provides helpful error messages when a CONTENTPOLICYVIOLATION error is encountered, improving user experience.

• Model Access — Allows users to access the model regardless of their subscription tier, with costs being incurred on a pay-per-use basis.

• Debugging Enhancement — Introduces a new error code to differentiate between model runner rejections and validation failures, enhancing debugging and observability.

• Model Metadata Update — Updates the model metadata to provide a direct link to the model's Hugging Face repository.

• Video Inference Capability — Enables video models to utilize start and end frame capabilities.

• Video Model Enhancement — Introduces a new capability to the VideoModelSchema, specifically the supportsEndImage feature.

• Insight Extraction API — Enables the extraction and return of structured profile updates from conversations.

• ImagineArt 1.5 Pro — Enables public access to ImagineArt 1.5 Pro.

• Technical Update — Updates the interface and prioritizes Qwen3 VL 235B for vision requests.

• API Price Sheet Update — Adds ImagineArt15Pro to the API price sheet and updates its FAL analytics URL.

• Model Availability — Demonstrates the ease of managing model availability through configuration updates.

• Request Tracking — Improves the tracking and identification of requests.

• Social Feed Update — Allows users to post images without providing any text fields.

• Security Enhancement — Enhances security by adding a minion authentication header to the TTS request.

• Character Image Generation — Updates the character image generation prompt logic to use the flag.

• Technical Enhancement — Supports enhancements by modifying or adding files.

• Tool Support — Introduces support for xAI server-side tools, specifically websearch and xsearch.

• Whisper Large V3 — Makes Whisper Large V3 public.

• Video Studio Access — Expands access to the video studio, potentially enhancing user experience.

• Variable Addition — Adds a variable to the script and uses it in the function.

• Grok Imagine Update — Updates the Grok Imagine Text-to-Video and Video-to-Video models to reflect their audio support.

• Model Access — Enables public access to the models by setting the configuration.

• Migration Files — Adds new migration files to ensure a smooth transition to the updated schema.

• Code Update — Updates the existing functionality by adding and removing lines of code.

• Cortex Data — Expands the functionality of the API, allowing for more interactions with Cortex data.

• SSE Streaming — Introduces support for nested containers with arbitrarily deep nesting in SSE streaming.

• Model Discovery — Allows API clients to discover and select the model, which was previously hidden.

• Function Update — Updates the function with an added test case to verify the behavior.

• Refresh Index — Introduces a new index to support refresh operations.

• Function Update — Updates the function with additions to the files.

• Technical Update — Includes renaming of queries, optimization of images, and updates to manual header settings.

• Schema Update — Updates the schema.prisma file with notable changes.

• Cortex Data Endpoint — Introduces a new endpoint for listing cortex data, enhancing the API's functionality.

• Cortex Entities — Introduces new API endpoints for managing cortex entities, including retrieval, creation, and publication.

• Image Model Specs — Enhances the image model specs with aspect ratios, providing more detailed information about the images.

• Grok Imagine Defaults — Updates the default resolution to 720p and duration to 10s for Grok Imagine video models.

• Documentation Update — Updates the documentation with comprehensive information.

• Inpaint Model Settings — Introduces aspect ratio settings to the InpaintModelSchema, allowing for more flexible image editing.

• Posts Filtering — Introduces an optional parameter to the posts list endpoint, allowing for server-side filtering of posts by media type.

• Media Type Filtering — Introduces an optional parameter to the posts API client, allowing for server-side media type filtering.

• Model Sets — Introduces the concept of model sets for video models, allowing for better categorization and filtering.

• Video Model Enhancement — Passes the selected video model ID to the prompt enhance endpoint in Video Studio.

• Prompt Enhancement — Enhances prompts for video models by using a video-specific template, including details like motion, camera movements, and audio atmosphere.

• Video Model Schema — Introduces an optional modelSets array field to the VideoModelSchema, allowing video models to be categorized into sets.

• Traffic Routing — Introduces percentage-based traffic routing to LLM host configurations, enabling weighted distribution.

• Payment Retry — Introduces an optional parameter to the past-due invoice payment API, allowing for retrying payments with the customer's current default payment method.

• API Usage CSV — Disables API usage CSV download.

• Subscription Upgrade — Introduces the ability to immediately upgrade Stripe subscriptions.

• Prisma Client Update — Introduces a 30-second statement timeout for PrismaClient.

• Conversations Selector — Introduces a new conversations selector for folder IDs, enhancing the functionality of the useConversations hook.

• API Settings — Introduces an component to the API settings page, enhancing discoverability and user experience.

• RxDB Schemas — Introduces new RxDB schemas for storing audio and video attachment metadata locally.

• Cache Backfilling — Enables the backfilling of missing cache rows for users from USD ledger entries, improving data consistency.

• Sharp Image Processing — Calls Sharp image processing paths to reduce high event loop pauses, particularly for large images over 1MB.

• User Management — Improves the overall functionality of the user management system.

• List Update — Updates the list to include 'Immediate' and adds filters to exclude false positives.

• Entity Insights — Introduces new fields for demographic and physical appearance to entity insights, enhancing the schema.

• Demographic Fields — Adds demographic fields to entity insights, enhancing the functionality of the app's insight extraction capabilities.

• Deprecation Information — Introduces a new flag, apiShowDeprecation, to control the display of deprecation information in API responses.

• Code Cleanup — Cleans up import paths in enhance-image.ts and multi-edit.ts.

• Multi-Image Editing — Introduces a new multi-image editing endpoint, allowing users to submit up to 3 images for editing.

• Routing Enhancement — Allows for more flexible and resilient routing.

• Prisma Configuration — Updates the Prisma configuration to accommodate cleartext connections.

• Billing Endpoint — Introduces a new GET /api/v1/billing/balance endpoint that returns the current balance, daily usage, and epoch reset time, requiring an Admin API key for access.

Fixes and Improvements

Image & Video:

• Fixed issues with image handling in video generation to support start and end images

• Fixed pricing calculations for image-to-video models by adding a fixed input cost field

• Fixed visual effects issues with image-to-video generation, including problems with grey backgrounds

• Fixed image copy protection by adding a custom 'Copy' action that intercepts the context menu

• Fixed video gallery layout to display videos in a consistent 2-column grid

• Improved video studio model matching for better accuracy

• Improved video display quality and playback behavior

• Enhanced video generation guidance with video-specific prompts

• Improved PWA video generation reliability

• Adjusted video player layout for better viewing experience

Chat & UI:

• Fixed post modal scrolling issues

• Improved conversation suggestions visibility

• Improved action menu behavior during inference

• Updated ChatOutputItem renderer for better display

• Improved icon consistency across the app

Wallet & Payments:

• Fixed release and pricing issues

• Improved insufficient credits error handling with clearer messages

• Improved payment method UX with better displays

• Added auto top-up indicator for better visibility

Mobile:

• Improved API page mobile responsiveness

• Improved image handling on mobile

• Improved mobile update toast to fit better on smaller screens

• Prevented screen lock during idle tasks like voice recording

Data & Backend:

• Improved VIS error tracking for better debugging

• Enhanced event loop monitoring to identify performance issues

• Added memory leak prevention rules to streaming handlers

• Added GC pause monitoring for performance optimization

• Improved Redis metrics and lock tracking

• Added 30 second statement timeout for database queries

User Experience:

• Updated video playback behavior for smoother experience

• Made prompt collections collapsible for cleaner interface

• Improved grid layout responsiveness across screen sizes

• Added visual feedback to action buttons

• Prevented blob URL copying for better security