Meta unveiled SAM Audio on December 16, 2025 — extending the legendary Segment Anything family into sound with the world's first unified multimodal audio separation model. Supporting intuitive text descriptions, visual clicks in videos, and time-span anchors (alone or combined), it cleanly extracts voices, instruments, or ambient noise from messy real-world mixes in seconds. Open-sourced with small/base/large variants, PE-AV perception encoder, and new benchmarks, it's already crushing competitors on SAM Audio-Bench while powering faster-than-real-time edits — a game-changer for creators, podcasters, filmmakers, and accessibility tools.

Singapore-based Pollo AI announced a $14 million seed round on December 8, 2025 — led by Gaorong Capital (Gao Cheng) with ZhenFund (True Fund) following — marking its first institutional funding. The all-in-one AI video and image generation platform integrates top models like Kling AI, Runway, Veo, and Stable Diffusion, boasting 20M+ registered users, 6M+ MAU, and $20M+ annualized revenue while already profitable since May. Funds will fuel model aggregation, product upgrades, and global expansion, positioning Pollo as the "video version of Canva" in a crowded creator economy.