Good morning. CapCut is bringing its editing tools directly inside Gemini. A 25-year-old just got Carmelo Anthony to invest in her AI movie studio at a $1 billion valuation. And an AI-generated feature film screened at the Cannes Market this week, made by 15 people in 14 days for under $500K. Have you tried editing inside Gemini yet? Hit reply and tell me. We cover all three below.
🎬 CapCut Just Turned Gemini Into a Video Editor
CapCut announced this week that users will soon be able to edit images and videos directly inside the Gemini app using CapCut's editing tools. No switching apps. No exporting and reimporting. You stay in Gemini the whole time.
That sounds small until you think about what it replaces. The old workflow: idea, generate in Gemini, export, open CapCut, edit, export again, upload. The new workflow: idea, generate in Gemini, "make this faster, add captions, tighten the pacing," publish. This isn't text-to-video. This is conversation-to-editor. CapCut joins Adobe and Canva as creative integrations inside Gemini, but CapCut is the one creators actually use for Shorts and Reels every day.
No launch date yet, but the announcement came days after Google I/O where Gemini Omni Flash dropped. The timing isn't a coincidence. Google is turning Gemini into the place where you ideate, generate, AND edit without leaving. For creators who live in CapCut, this could be the thing that pulls your whole workflow into one window.
Meet the 25-Year-Old Building Hollywood's First AI Movie Studio
Utopai Studios just got Carmelo Anthony as both an investor and production partner. The 41-year-old NBA Hall of Famer is putting his Creative 7 Productions label behind AI-generated content about his life and other sports stories. Forbes estimates the investment at around $5 million, at a valuation of $1 billion.
Cecilia Shen, CEO of Utopai Studios
That's an astronomical number for a company that Forbes estimates did less than $50 million in revenue in 2025 and hasn't released a full-length movie or TV show yet. But the bet isn't on what Utopai has made. It's on what AI movie production looks like in 18 months. The company has projects in the pipeline and strong 2026 projections, and the Carmelo deal positions it as a real player in the Hollywood AI race.
For creators, this is a signal worth paying attention to. The money flowing into AI filmmaking is moving faster than the technology is proving itself. AI video isn't just a tool for clips and Shorts anymore. It's becoming an entire production category, and the people investing in it are betting it replaces traditional workflows entirely.
The First AI Feature Film Just Screened in Cannes
A 95-minute sci-fi heist film called Hell Grind screened at the Cannes Market this week. Every character, setting, and prop was generated using Higgsfield AI. A team of 15 directors, DPs, and editors made it in 14 days for under $500K. Higgsfield says the traditional equivalent would have cost around $50 million.
The production details are interesting regardless. The team generated over 16,000 video clips to produce 253 final shots for the first episode. Each prompt averaged 3,000 words to maintain shot-to-shot consistency, with specific instructions for physics, cinematography, and avoiding what the team called "AI sheen."
The CEO of Higgsfield described the generation process as having "a feeling of a slot machine." The director had spent a decade getting his first traditional feature made. With AI, he arrived in Cannes with a new project months after screening at Rotterdam. Whether you think the result looks good or not, the production timeline is hard to ignore.