# HeyGen News ### [What’s new at HeyGen: September 2026]() October 1, 2026 September was built for developers. HeyGen shipped an open-source real-time avatar stack powered by GPT-Live-1, launched the Code2Video Benchmark for evaluating AI-generated motion graphics, and brought Professional Voice Clone to the API. ### [Code2Video Benchmark Evaluates AI Motion Design]() September 21, 2026 HeyGen and HyperFrames introduced Code2Video Bench with the Kaggle team. It tests how well AI agents turn creative briefs into code-rendered motion graphics, using 168 human-created reference videos and evaluations across engagement, prompt intent, composition, timing, and craft. [View on X]() ### [What’s new at HeyGen: August 2026]() September 9, 2026 See everything HeyGen shipped in August 2026, from the launch of HeyGen for Real Estate to Edit Look, a new way to retouch and refine your avatar without recording again. ### [HeyGen for Real Estate and Edit Look]() September 9, 2026 HeyGen launched a real-estate workflow that turns an agent’s expertise into market updates, listing videos, and neighborhood tours without anyone holding a camera. Edit Look retouches an existing avatar once so every future video made from it follows the new look. [View on X]() ### [What’s new at HeyGen: July 2026]() August 17, 2026 See everything HeyGen shipped in July 2026, from Video Podcast and HyperFrames inside Video Agent to 30-minute talking avatar videos, website-to-video, Figma-to-video, and new agentic video creation tools. ### [Introducing HeyGen for Real Estate]() August 11, 2026 HeyGen for Real Estate brings three video formats built for agents. Type what your market needs to hear, and get a polished video starring you. As a launch offer, US agents who sign up for the Creator plan get HeyGen White Glove free for 30 days. [View on X]() ### [Video Podcast Is Live]() July 29, 2026 HeyGen's Video Podcast turns any doc, link, or idea into a two-host video show with studio scenes, multi-cam cuts, and B-roll, ready in minutes. Everyone else stops at audio — this is a show you can publish. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames Becomes Video Agent]() July 23, 2026 HeyGen brought HyperFrames, its HTML motion-graphics framework, inside HeyGen as a Video Agent. Prompt what you want and the agent builds the entire video, avatar, graphics, captions, and music, infinitely customizable, just ask. [View on X]() ### [AI Clipping in the HeyGen API]() July 18, 2026 AI Clipping is now in the HeyGen API: one call turns a long video into scored, social-ready clips. Let the model pick the highlights, guide it with plain-language instructions, or pass exact timestamps. Up to 10 clips per job, each with a confidence score, optional auto captions, and 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9 output. [View on X]() ### [Batch APIs Are Live]() July 17, 2026 HeyGen's Batch APIs are live: submit up to 100 videos, translations, lipsyncs, or uploads in one request and get a single webhook back when everything's done. One batch\_id tracks the whole job, with per-item status and pagination for large batches. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames Gets a Media Library]() July 17, 2026 HeyGen gave HyperFrames a media library: 10k+ tracks, 75k+ images, SFX, and logos, free with a HeyGen login, plus access to HeyGen's generative models. Assets save to your machine, so the next project skips the search. Run it with /media-use. [View on X]() ### [Keyframes Open-Sourced in HyperFrames]() July 2, 2026 HeyGen open-sourced Keyframes in HyperFrames — the system behind pro editing tools, rebuilt as code. Comfortable for beginners, deep enough for After Effects pros, and your agent can now see its own motion and fix issues with one command (npx hyperframes keyframes). [View on X]() ### [Next-Gen HyperFrames Skills]() June 26, 2026 The next generation of HyperFrames skills is here — 9 workflows your agent actually understands (a launch video, a music video, captions and overlays on video). It knows which one you mean from context and routes there on its own. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames Cloud Render]() June 21, 2026 Don't let your machine be the bottleneck — HyperFrames can now render in the cloud on HeyGen. No local Chrome, ffmpeg, or AWS; renders land faster and your machine stays free so you (or your agent) can keep building while it renders. Run it with \`npx hyperframes cloud render\`. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames Live on Grok]() June 21, 2026 HyperFrames is now officially live on Grok — any answer becomes a polished video in minutes. Grok knows everything; HyperFrames shows it. [View on X]() ### [HeyGen May 2026 Release]() June 6, 2026 HeyGen May 2026 release — new features and improvements across the platform. ### [AI Avatar on Twitch]() June 6, 2026 HeyGen put an AI avatar on Twitch to roast 24/7 — people send GitHub repos in chat and it reviews code and roasts bad design decisions in real time. [View on X]() ### [Cinematic Avatar API]() June 6, 2026 Cinematic Avatar API is live — keep your likeness, add cinematic range, and build your video pipeline via a coding agent. [View on X]() ### [frame.md]() June 6, 2026 Introducing frame.md — a spec built for videos and motion that teaches AI agents how to make branded video, converting your design.md into video-native brand guidelines. [View on X]() ### [Lovable Integration]() June 6, 2026 HeyGen is now integrated with Lovable via MCP + OAuth — prompt avatar video directly into your app and ship with a face and voice. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames Templates on AWS Lambda]() May 21, 2026 Turn your best HyperFrames composition into a template — swap text, colors, and clips, then render dozens of versions in parallel on AWS Lambda. Build once, scale forever. ### [HeyGen API Pricing Cut Across the Stack]() May 20, 2026 AI video just got cheaper to scale. We've reduced pricing across the HeyGen API stack while continuing to outperform competitors on realism, lip sync, motion quality, and identity consistency. See the updated pricing breakdown. [View on X]() ### [Avatar V Lands on fal]() May 20, 2026 Avatar V is live on fal! Realism + identity consistency, studio-quality videos from a 15-second recording, lifelike motion and expressions, stable across multiple camera angles, and built for long-form performance. [View on X]() ### [Avatar V API at $0.05/sec]() May 20, 2026 Avatar V API is live at $0.05/sec — the highest-quality AI avatar model for developers. Benchmarked against Veo 3.1, Kling O3 Pro, OmniHuman 1.5, and Seedance 2.0 on cross-scene talking-head generation. Avatar V won every category. [View on X]() ### [Tutorial: Avatar V Custom Motion]() May 20, 2026 In this video, HeyGen breaks down how you can prompt things like eye contact, pacing, pauses, posture, gestures, and subtle shifts in energy to shape the performance. What kind of creator workflow should we break down next? [View on X]() ### [Avatar V Now Takes Direction — Custom Motion]() May 17, 2026 Avatar V now takes direction. Custom Motion lets you cue specific motions, expressions, and gazes — a lean-in before a key point, a smile for emphasis, a thumbs up at the end. Whatever the moment calls for, just type it. [View on X]() ### [HeyGen Now Built Into Canva]() May 15, 2026 190M+ people already create in Canva. Now they can generate videos there too. HeyGen is officially built into Canva, letting you add AI avatars into decks, training docs, social posts, and marketing assets without leaving the canvas. [View on X]() ### [HeyGen Is Now Built Into Codex]() May 13, 2026 HeyGen is now built into Codex — one-click install. Your A-Roll, B-Roll, audio, captions, and motion graphics all live in one workflow. Call on your avatars, change looks, edit scenes, and generate videos without ever leaving Codex. [View on X]() ### [HeyGen on Android]() May 12, 2026 Some of the best ideas happen when you're nowhere near your desk. HeyGen is now on Android — create and publish videos directly from your phone, wherever inspiration hits. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames Inspector]() May 12, 2026 Every edit used to be a round-trip through the model — font swap, color change, nudge 20 pixels, easing curve. Now they're a click in the Inspector panel. HyperFrames Inspector is live. npx hyperframes preview [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames Catalog Update]() May 8, 2026 HeyGen pushed a HyperFrames catalog update with new textures and shaders — each one addable with a single npx command. [View on X]() ### [One-Click Vercel Rendering for HyperFrames]() May 8, 2026 HeyGen and Vercel teamed up on a HyperFrames-on-Vercel template — preview HTML video compositions in the browser, render MP4s server-side on Vercel Sandbox. ### [HTML-in-Canvas with HyperFrames]() May 6, 2026 HeyGen showcased HyperFrames rendering HTML directly inside canvas-based video compositions — making interactive web layouts a first-class video element. [View on X]() ### [Hermes Agent + HyperFrames Skill]() May 6, 2026 HeyGen added HyperFrames as a native Hermes Agent skill — a collab with Nous Research. Install with \`hermes skills install hyperframes\` and turn an X post, PDF, or repo into a video. [View on X]() ### [Hyperframes Community Hub]() May 5, 2026 HeyGen launched hyperframes.dev — a community hub where you can browse projects, download any zip, hand it to your agent, or publish your own. Hyperframes is HeyGen's open-source HTML-to-video framework: write HTML, CSS, and JS, render deterministic MP4. Built for AI agents. ### [HeyGen × Granola]() May 1, 2026 HeyGen now integrates with Granola — turn your meeting notes into shareable HeyGen videos automatically. [View on X]() ### [HDR Rendering for HyperFrames]() April 29, 2026 HeyGen rolled out HDR rendering for HyperFrames — higher contrast, richer colors, and better highlights and shadows in your generated video. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames in Codex + Claude Design]() April 27, 2026 HyperFrames is now an official one-click plugin in Codex (turning Codex into an end-to-end video workspace — code it, edit it, render it, ship it) and natively in Claude Design (drop in the skill file, generate motion graphics, then \`npx hyperframes render\` to MP4). Design → animation → MP4 in one flow. [View on X]() ### [Instant Highlights V2]() April 21, 2026 Your 90-min video has 15 clips hiding in it. Instant Highlights V2 finds them. Prompt-based search, face tracking, multi-speaker handling, captions. Translate into 175+ languages and upscale to 4K. [View on X]() ### [HeyGen Skills — Custom AI Avatars]() April 18, 2026 Your agent already knew how to write. Now it knows how to show up. Describe your avatar or paste a photo — your agent builds it and saves it for every future video. [View on X]() ### [1080p with Seedance 2.0 on HeyGen]() April 18, 2026 Full HD generation with Seedance 2.0 is now available on HeyGen. Same motion, same multi-character scenes — now with the clarity it deserves. [View on X]() ### [HyperFrames — Open Source HTML to MP4]() April 17, 2026 HeyGen built their launch video in Claude Code using HyperFrames. Now it's open source and agent-native. HTML to MP4. $ npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes [View on X]() ### [HeyGen CLI Is Live]() April 15, 2026 Your AI agent can now generate and ship videos from the terminal. Run one command and your agent handles it all: script → avatar creation → video → delivery. All from the CLI — just your agent and one command. [View on X]() [View HeyGen on Creators Toolbox]() --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/tools/heygen/news