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Microsoft Foundry Partners with fal: Kling, LTX, and MiniMax Video Models in Public Preview as First-Party Azure Service

On 2026-11-05 Microsoft and fal put Kling v3 Pro, LTX-2.5 Fast/Pro, and MiniMax H3 Max/Turbo into Foundry public preview as a first-party Azure service (@Azure amplified 2026-11-06). Vendor: US hosting and first US-hosted Kling endpoint, with per-second pricing; more models and pricing-page listings planned in coming weeks.

Microsoft Foundry Partners with fal: Kling, LTX, and MiniMax Video Models in Public Preview as First-Party Azure Service

Key Takeaways

  • Source: Microsoft Tech Community post (2026-11-05) + @Azure amplify 2026-11-06
  • Portfolio (preview): Kling v3 Pro, LTX-2.5 Fast/Pro, MiniMax H3 Max/Turbo via fal as first-party Azure Foundry service
  • Hosting: vendor US-hosted claim and first US-hosted Kling endpoint (still review each model's data terms)
  • Pricing (official USD/sec): H3 Max 1080p $0.16; Turbo $0.08; LTX Fast $0.13; LTX Pro $0.17; Kling audio off/on/voice ~$0.1232/$0.1848/$0.2156
  • Status: public preview; more models and pricing-page listings planned in coming weeks; no GA date
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Linked Models & Agents:
⚡ Kling v3 Pro⚡ LTX-2.5⚡ MiniMax H3 Max🌐 Microsoft Azure AI🌐 fal
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Kandinsky 6.0 Video goes open source: 3B/29B joint audio-video diffusion models with 44 kHz lip-synced sound, MIT weights, runs on 16 GB GPUs

Kandinsky Lab open-sourced Kandinsky 6.0 Video on Oct 6: Lite (3B) and Pro (29B) text/image-to-audio-video diffusion models that generate 5-second clips with synchronized 44 kHz audio including lip-sync, plus built-in super-resolution to 1080p. Dual-stream CrossDiT; code, weights and Diffusers integration under MIT. The report claims it beats open LTX 2.5 on most VABench metrics and is competitive with proprietary systems on speech quality.

Kandinsky 6.0 Video goes open source: 3B/29B joint audio-video diffusion models with 44 kHz lip-synced sound, MIT weights, runs on 16 GB GPUs

Key Takeaways

  • Scale: Lite 3B / Pro 29B; Pro = 19B video stream + 5B audio stream + 5B cross-attention (report)
  • Output: 5 s clips with synchronized 44 kHz audio incl. lip-sync, T2AV and I2AV, built-in SR to 1920×1080
  • Evals: beats open LTX 2.5 on most VABench metrics; trades wins with Veo 3.1 Fast (better artifacts/camera motion, behind on speech/sync); behind MiniMax H3 and Seedance 2.0 on visuals
  • Speed: distilled to 10 NFE with 51% vs 49% human preference vs full model; non-distilled Pro Full HD ≈402 s on H100, ≈1247 s on RTX 4090
  • Deploy: block offload cuts Pro SD peak memory 72.8 → 21.7 GiB, 16 GB preset; Diffusers, ComfyUI and vLLM-Omni support; MIT license
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Linked Models & Agents:
⚡ kandinsky-6.0-video-pro⚡ kandinsky-6.0-video-lite⚡ ltx-2.5⚡ veo-3.1-fast⚡ seedance-2.0⚡ Minimax H3🌐 kandinskylab

Unsloth v0.1.900-beta: local Laya Decision models + Skills editor; ~4.5× LTX-2.3 clips and up to 6.3× faster VAE decode

Unsloth shipped v0.1.900-beta on 2026-09-28 (PyPI unsloth 2026.9.12): Desktop runs Laya Decision models locally via a Jev-compatible /v1/systemone endpoint, adds a Skills CRUD editor and Library viewers for PDF/Office, and improves Apple Silicon with batched serving, structured outputs, and TurboQuant KV. Media pipelines claim ~4.5× LTX-2.3 clips, 1.7–6.3× VAE decode, and up to ~1 minute faster MiniMax-H3 first render with 25–29 GiB lower peak VRAM.

Unsloth v0.1.900-beta: local Laya Decision models + Skills editor; ~4.5× LTX-2.3 clips and up to 6.3× faster VAE decode

Key Takeaways

  • Shipped v0.1.900-beta — local Laya Decision API + Skills editor + Library viewers
  • LTX-2.3 ~4.5×; VAE decode 1.7–6.3×; MiniMax-H3 first render up to ~1 min faster, −25–29 GiB peak VRAM
  • Apple Silicon: batched serving, structured outputs, TurboQuant KV; ModelScope downloads
  • Docs: docs.unsloth.ai
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Linked Models & Agents:
⚡ Laya⚡ LTX-2.3⚡ MiniMax-H3⚡ Gemma-4🤖 Unsloth-Studio🌐 Unsloth

Shanghai AI Lab Open-Sources AV-GRPO: Modality-Anchored Decoupled Diffusion RL for Joint Audio-Video Generation

Shanghai AI Laboratory has open-sourced AV-GRPO (arXiv: 2609.29816, GitHub: zhiyuxu03/AV-GRPO), a modality-anchored online diffusion reinforcement learning framework for joint audio-video generation. Addressing the persistent audio-visual desynchronization, semantic mismatch, and high compute overhead in coupled diffusion models, AV-GRPO decouples multimodal preference optimization into manageable unimodal subproblems via modality-anchored rollouts and trajectory-locked frozen-tower RL. It delivers state-of-the-art cross-modal synchronization on JavisBench and VABench, substantially outperforming LTX-2.3.

Shanghai AI Lab Open-Sources AV-GRPO: Modality-Anchored Decoupled Diffusion RL for Joint Audio-Video Generation

Key Takeaways

  • Extends Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to continuous joint audio-visual diffusion reinforcement learning.
  • Implements modality-anchored rollouts and trajectory-locked frozen towers to resolve multimodal credit assignment bottlenecks.
  • Releases 5DAV, the first systematically decoupled 5-dimensional difficulty-controllable training dataset.
  • Outperforms LTX-2.3 on JavisBench and VABench, boosting cross-modal synchronization by 28.4% and semantic alignment by 19.6%.
  • Training scripts, inference recipes, LoRA checkpoints, and datasets published under open-source licenses on GitHub.
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Linked Models & Agents:
⚡ Av Grpo⚡ Ltx Video⚡ Hunyuan Video🤖 multimodal-agent🌐 shanghai-ai-lab🌐 huggingface
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