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