July 21st, 2026

July 20th Platform Update: Stability, Skills, Bandwidth

Faster Media Delivery (CDN)

All generated images, videos, and audio files are now served through a global CDN (CloudFront) at full quality, delivering content faster to users worldwide regardless of location.

  • Faster image downloads — full-resolution image downloads now served via CDN with proper formatting

  • Faster video downloads — video downloads delivered via CDN with correct media types

  • Faster video streaming — videos now stream via adaptive HLS for quicker playback start, with native Safari HLS support

  • Faster homepage loading — homepage assets and thumbnails served from Cloudflare with optimized resolution and preconnect hints

  • Smarter image sizing — the website now requests appropriately-sized images per device, reducing bandwidth and load times without visible quality loss


New Skills & Connectors Page

  • Public skills catalog — a curated library of skills is now available directly on the homepage, with highlighted sections and category browsing

  • Redesigned command menu — the slash-command skill menu has been redesigned for easier discovery and activation

  • Skill activation indicator — when a skill is active in your agent chat, you'll see a visual indicator and can click to view details

  • Skills in spaces — skills can now be used in spaces with an improved selection experience

  • Improved connector menu — the MCP connector selection menu has been improved directly from the prompt box for a smoother experience

  • Skill editing — skills can be renamed, edited, and managed with auto-normalized names and accent-colored cards


Higher Quality & Faster Images

New image models

  • Seedream 5.0 Pro — new high-quality image generation model

Image quality improvements

  • WebP optimization — large images are automatically recompressed to WebP for faster loading and uploads

  • AVIF support — AVIF image uploads now accepted and converted for provider compatibility

  • Cloudflare Images CDN — all images served through Cloudflare Images with automatic format negotiation and caching

  • Faster page loads — lazy-loaded media players, asset dialogs, and deferred network queries on the homepage


Higher Quality & Faster Video

Mux Plus video quality

  • Higher-quality video delivery — videos are now delivered through an upgraded Mux Plus pipeline for better visual quality, this should match the rate used on Netflix/Youtube

Video streaming & playback

  • MSE-based playback — smoother streaming with Media Source Extensions

  • Native Safari HLS — Safari now uses its native HLS engine for better compatibility

  • Improved video downloads — cleaner download variant handling with CDN delivery


Higher Quality Audio Across All Avatar Models

ElevenLabs v3

  • Speed and stability controls now exposed in the audio asset details

Hedra Avatar audio improvements

  • Full source audio sent to avatar inference — avatar models now receive the complete source audio for more accurate lip-sync

  • Audio-driven duration — when duration is missing, avatar generations automatically default to audio-driven timing

Kling O3 audio

  • Native audio input — Kling O3 models now accept audio input directly for audio-driven video generation


Studio / Canvas Improvements

  • Unified create panels — video, image, and audio creation panels now share a consistent design with shared primitives, accessible from the right sidebar

  • Rerun quick actions — quickly re-run any image, video, or audio generation from the canvas contextual toolbar

  • "Create speech" renamed — the canvas audio widget now says "Create speech" for clarity

  • Improved drag-and-drop performance — smoother canvas interactions


Agent Improvements

  • Collapsible agent widget — minimize the agent chat to a compact widget when you need more screen space

  • More reliable streaming — the agent now reconnects on mid-stream errors instead of failing

  • Tool call visuals — improved rendering of tool calls including skill activation indicators

  • Safari support — agent now works correctly with Safari's idle callbacks

  • Faster skill loading — public skills served from a database-backed catalog cached per pod for instant access