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August 2026

August 2026 update

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In August we added video, PDFs and 3D models to the canvas. The video work brings the first model we run that edits existing footage instead of making new footage from a still image. Large projects no longer crash on an iPad. And we fixed a bug in studio invitations that had been failing quietly since we shipped them.

August in numbers

  • 3 new kinds of object on the canvas. Video, PDFs and 3D models.
  • The iPad uses a fourteenth of the memory it used to. Large projects used to crash it.
  • 22 AI models in production. Images, video, 3D worlds, 3D objects and upscaling.
  • 3,391 new tests. Nearly 19,500 in total.

Shipped

Video editing. Until now our video models only turned a still image into motion. Kling O1 Edit takes a video you already have. You give it a clip and describe what should be different. It can put different furniture in a room, add people to an empty space, change a floor or facade material, or light the scene at a different time of day. The camera move and the timing stay as you filmed them.

You can also drop a video file straight onto the canvas, where it behaves like any other layer, with handles to trim it and a button to pull out the frame you are looking at as an image. Clips in the video compositor now keep their last ten attempts, so generating again does not overwrite the version you liked.

PDFs on the canvas. Adding a PDF used to mean choosing the pages you wanted up front and getting a flat image for each one. A PDF now arrives as a single document that you page through on the canvas. You pull out pages as images later, once you can see which ones you need.

3D models from photographs. Point the new 3D Asset widget at one to four photographs of an object and it gives you back a textured 3D model. It handles single objects rather than rooms, so a chair or a light fitting rather than a kitchen. Manufacturers often publish photographs of a product but no model you can download. Turn the result around on the canvas, then export it as GLB, FBX, OBJ or USDZ, which ARCHICAD, Revit 2026, Rhino and SketchUp can each open.

Selecting parts of an image. Click a window, a wall or a piece of furniture and it is selected, with no tracing around it. That has worked on views sent from Revit, ARCHICAD and Rhino, because the plugins tell us what each element is. It now works on any image too, including photographs and hand-drawn plans, though preparing one takes a minute or two and costs credits. What INTER\STITIAL generates is a material ID pass, which you can also download as a PNG and use in Photoshop.

The iPad. Opening a large project and panning around used to reload the tab. Safari charges for an image at its full size even when it appears on screen the size of a postage stamp, so a busy board used up an iPad’s whole allowance of drawing memory in seconds. The same project now uses about a fourteenth of that. Panning follows your finger, pinch zoom works, and dragging something with your finger no longer wipes out your undo history.

Reusing a pipeline instead of rebuilding it. A stack of images used to exist only as long as it had images in it. Take the last one out and it dissolved, and everything wired to it went too, so the next batch of drawings meant building the arrangement again. An empty stack stays put. Wire up your references, your prompt and your settings once, drop this week’s drawings into the empty slot, and put next week’s in the same place. Connect one to a render and it marks where the results will land, so you are not hunting for them afterwards.

ARCHICAD on Mac. The ARCHICAD add-on was Windows only when we announced it in July. There is a signed macOS installer now. On both platforms the plugin sends the canvas an image at two to four times the resolution of your screen.

Next

  • Putting a building in its real surroundings. Place your model at its real address, with the sun where it will be on the day you choose.
  • Models straight out of CAD. The plugins currently send the view on your screen. Next they send the building itself.
  • SketchUp. The fourth plugin.
  • Saving and sharing pipelines. Empty stacks let you leave the image slots of a workflow empty. Saving one and sending it to a colleague is the next part.
  • An agent that can operate the app. Ask it for a moodboard, a set of facade studies, or a pipeline wired up and ready for images, and it does the work on the canvas.

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