Good morning. ComfyUI just raised $30M at a $500M valuation. OpenArt dropped Smart Shot, a tool that generates multi-cut cinematic videos from a single prompt. And an AI video of General Grievous walking into Pawn Stars is going viral. Have you used ComfyUI? Hit reply and tell me. We cover all three below.
ComfyUI Just Raised $30M at a $500M Valuation
ComfyUI just raised $30M led by Craft Ventures, bringing total funding to $48M. The open-source node-based workflow tool now has 4 million users, 60,000+ community-built nodes, and 150,000+ daily downloads. Studios are using it for VFX, animation, advertising, and even industrial design. "ComfyUI artist" is now a real job title on studio job boards.
The pitch is simple: tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT get you 60-80% there, but tweaking the last 20% is a slot machine. ComfyUI gives you granular control over every step of the generation process. The team that made SVEDKA's 2026 Super Bowl commercial, the first primarily AI-generated Super Bowl ad, built it entirely in ComfyUI. As AI slop floods the internet, precision tools are becoming the moat.
OpenArt Just Dropped Multi-Cut AI Video
OpenArt launched Smart Shot, an AI video feature that generates multi-cut cinematic videos from a single prompt. Most AI video tools give you one continuous clip. Smart Shot generates 3-5 distinct cuts with different camera angles, framing, and movement. Wide shots, close-ups, orbit shots, push-ins. It feels like a directed and edited sequence, not a single generated clip.
You get a Shot Plan before generating so you can preview the storyboard and adjust camera movements. Characters, products, and environments stay consistent across all cuts. If you've been stitching together individual AI clips in CapCut to fake multi-shot sequences, this does it in one step.
Pawn Star Wars Is Going Viral
An AI-generated video of General Grievous walking into Pawn Stars to sell his lightsaber collection to Rick Harrison is making the rounds right now. The whole thing is AI-generated. Grievous. The shop. The negotiation. It looks like an actual episode of the show except one of the customers has four arms and a cough.
This is the kind of content that proves AI video has crossed a threshold. The format works because everyone already knows both IPs. You don't need context. You just need the visual and it's immediately funny. Expect more AI mashups like this to blow up.
The formula is simple: take two things people already love, smash them together, and let the AI handle the rest. Hit reply if you want to see the full video.