Changelog
Latest product updates
October 2026
October 5–11 updates: create team workspaces and manage team subscriptions, explore the redesigned Community, and search generation history. Zumi can switch to a free model when credits are insufficient.
New
- Team Workspaces: Create a team and switch between personal and team workspaces. Projects, assets, and credits are managed by workspace.
- Team Subscriptions and Members: Subscribe as a team, add seats, upgrade plans, and purchase team credits. Invite members through links and manage members and invitations according to your role.
- Generation Search: Search titles, descriptions, or prompts. Filter by image, video, audio, and date, then sort newest or oldest first. Page filters stay in the URL for later visits. Some older records may lack prompts.
- Quick Search and Canvas Reuse: Use
⌘ KorCtrl Kto open generation search with a keyword. The canvas generation panel also supports search, filters, and importing multiple selections.
Zumi
- Free Model Switching: If the current model needs more credits, Zumi switches to an available free model and notifies you. If none is available, it shows how to add credits.
- Batch Generation and Session Recovery: Fixed missing confirmation cards for batches larger than five items. Also fixed session recovery and continuation after confirmations across conversation turns.
Community and Events
- Improved Viewing: Work cards support hover previews. Detail pages use a theater layout with access to the next work and other collection episodes.
- Creator Channels: Browse works, series, and highlighted works in one place, and view following and follower lists.
- Events and Homepage Picks: Event pages use poster layouts and bring entries and award results together. The homepage displays works by recent event collections to help you find inspiration.
Improvements
- Account and Usage Pages: Unified personal and team account pages and added usage charts. Credit transactions are shown by workspace, and orders support pagination.
- Canvas and Media Fixes: Fixed overlapping nodes during resizing of multiple selected nodes. Also fixed audio quality changes after video trimming.
September 19–October 4 updates: redesigned credit history, grouped model search, Zumi model and reasoning choices, and session usage details. Community sharing is open to everyone, and the Time Machine event page is refreshed.
Credits and Billing
- Transaction Filters: Filter by grants, usage, refunds, expiration, or clearing, and select a date range. Transactions show the related project, task, source, and remaining balance.
- Credit Batches and Balances: View your total balance, locked credits, and deduction order in one place. Check each credit batch's remaining amount, expiration date, and status.
Canvas
- Model Groups and Search: Browse models by directory groups and search the model selector. Opening the list locates the currently selected model.
- Context Menu Creation: Improved node creation entries, with emoji and sticker choices in the menu.
- Asset Detail Fixes: Restored text selection in preview details and fixed incorrect input parameters in generation details.
Zumi
- Session Models and Reasoning Levels: Choose a model and reasoning level for each session to suit your creative task.
- Send and Stop Controls: One button switches between sending and stopping based on the draft and reply status.
- Session Usage and Model Details: Sessions display cumulative credit and token usage. The model list shows limited-time free labels and offers credit purchase or upgrade options when your balance is low.
- Conversation Links and Downloads: Unified web link and file download styles in Zumi conversations to make referenced content easier to identify and open.
Community
- Sharing for Everyone: Community sharing is available to all users. Publish your work through the project sharing menu.
Events
- Time Machine Challenge Page: Updated the event visuals, awards, and rules. Added registration, submission, watermark download links, and an X community entry.
Collaboration
- Permission Denial Reconnection Fix: Fixed repeated reconnections after collaboration access is denied, reducing unnecessary connection requests.
September 2026
A brand-new official docs hub and changelog section are live; the homepage gains skill extraction and import; Community work pages are redesigned and focused on pure video creation.
New
- All-New Official Docs Hub: The user guide and changelog are unified into a standardized documentation site with instant global search and clear section navigation for faster lookup.
- Skill Creation & Reuse: The homepage creation area adds a dedicated skills panel that can intelligently distill a skill from a reference video or an existing work, import external skill files, and reuse great setups anytime.
- Experience Feedback & Rewards: After a purchase, take the new satisfaction survey—share your thoughts and suggestions to claim an exclusive credit gift.
Community
- Video-First Creation & Layout Upgrade: Community submissions move to a video-only format for purer motion imagery, and work detail pages adopt a more focused layout with polished information display.
The Creative Ad Challenge is officially open; a redesigned events hub makes entering and browsing entries clearer; Airwallex joins the payment methods.
Events
- Creative Ad Challenge: Dream up original ad shorts for wildly imaginative fictional products and compete for the $1,000 Best Creative Concept grand prize!
- All-in-One Events Hub: Rules, prizes, and entries are fully consolidated, with browsing by popularity or recency and a clear view of your progress and key dates.
Pricing & Payments
- More Payment Options: Airwallex is now supported, making one-time credit purchases and subscription payments even smoother.
Zumi can parse Excel and PowerPoint assets; canvas tasks resume seamlessly after a refresh or interruption; the image editing toolbar gets a fresh look.
Zumi
- Document-Level Asset Parsing: Zumi accepts Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks directly, extracting their structure to guide conversation and script generation.
Canvas
- Resumable Tasks & Pre-Checks: After a network drop or page refresh, unfinished generation tasks can be resumed instantly from the instance list; batch generation supports item-by-item pre-checks and tweaks.
- Rebuilt Image Editing Panel: Brush, shape, typography, and sticker tools get a redesigned layout for a more intuitive retouching experience.
Japanese, German, French, and Korean are now supported, bringing the platform to 8 major languages and a native-language experience for creators worldwide.
Languages
- Broad Global Language Coverage: Japanese (日本語), German (Deutsch), French (Français), and Korean (한국어) are now available, expanding support to 8 languages.
- Seamless Site-Wide Localization: From the homepage and prompt inspiration library to events and your profile, every interface can be switched to your native language.
August 2026
A dedicated AI video production page for commercial clients; start a project from the homepage with a skill attached in one click; new on-demand credit packs.
New
- Custom Commercial Video Production: Showcasing social campaigns, music videos, brand ads, and other professional use cases, where businesses can submit requirements and enjoy a first-order discount.
- Seamless Homepage-to-Creation Flow: The homepage prompt box now lets you pick a skill and reference image, opening a Studio project in one click.
- Flexible Credit Packs: One-time credit purchases you can top up as needed—no long-term subscription required to add generation capacity.
Instant hover previews for assets referenced in prompts, project covers captured straight from canvas work, and clearer, friendlier error messages.
Canvas & Workflows
- Instant Preview of Referenced Assets: Hover over an
@-referenced asset tag in the input box to float a high-resolution preview—no more back-and-forth hunting. - Custom Canvas Cover: When editing a project cover, capture any standout frame from the canvas as the project image.
- Friendlier Error Guidance: Generation failures now come with clear troubleshooting steps and parameter adjustment suggestions.
Zumi gets a major upgrade with quick access to creative skills and a curated template library, plus interactive batch generation in chat.
Zumi
- Creative Skills & Slash Commands: Call up dedicated creative skills and curated templates with
/in chat to launch advanced workflows in seconds. - Interactive Batch Generation: Select multiple reference assets in chat to launch batch generation, adjust parameters beforehand, and monitor progress live.
A bird's-eye minimap and collapsible group nodes, plus full-screen prompt editing, give you better command of complex projects.
Canvas
- Canvas Minimap: A collapsible overview highlights nodes by type—click or drag to jump the viewport instantly.
- Modular Group Collapsing: Collapse sprawling node networks into tidy status cards to cut visual load, expanding them again whenever needed.
- Full-Screen Prompt Writing: Switch the prompt input to a wide mode in one click for clearer, more comfortable long-form prompt writing.
An official creator marketplace bringing together top AI directors and artists, where brands and teams can explore work and connect for commercial partnerships.
Creator Marketplace
- Verified Creator Directory: A curated roster of officially verified generative artists and studios, searchable by specialty style and work type.
- Transparent Commercial Profiles & Outreach: Detailed portfolios, licensing status, starting rates, and availability, with one-click commercial collaboration requests.
A pinned-node panel, multi-color tags, and a sidebar filter make asset management in large, complex projects much easier.
Canvas
- Pinned Node Panel: Pin frequently used assets or key reference nodes to a fixed area and expand them anytime—no more hunting across a vast canvas.
- Color Tags & Multi-Dimensional Filtering: Tag nodes with multi-color status labels, then locate targets quickly by type, color, and tag from the filter sidebar.
July 2026
A creator referral program is live—invite friends to sign up and try AZ8, and you both share generous credit rewards.
Creator Program
- Dedicated Invite Links: Creators can generate their own referral links and track invited users' sign-ups and conversions in real time from the dashboard.
- Two-Way Credit Rewards: When a friend signs up through your link and makes a first purchase, both the inviter and the invited friend receive extra creation credits.
A new local audio toolbox with format conversion and track separation; Zumi confirms requirements before generating; a handy double-click menu on the canvas.
Audio Toolbox
- Local Audio Tools: Fast conversion between mainstream audio formats and precise clip trimming, plus one-click extraction of a standalone audio track node from a video.
Interaction & Canvas
- Smarter Zumi Interaction: Confirm your exact requirements through interactive cards before generation to keep results on target, and search curated inspiration assets right in the chat.
- Canvas Double-Click Menu: Double-click empty canvas space to bring up common actions for a faster creative flow.
AZ8 CLI lets coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor drive the canvas to generate multimodal assets; subscription pricing is now fully transparent.
Developers & Tools
- AZ8 CLI: External AI coding assistants and developers can control the canvas from the terminal—reading the graph, running batch image/video generation, and writing results back to nodes.
- Simplified Pricing & Flexible Trials: The subscription lineup is simplified into clear fixed tiers, plus a low-commitment paid trial pack.
The 3D World supports free camera creation and choreographed camera paths, rendering HD MP4 from the timeline and returning it seamlessly to the canvas.
3D World
- Camera Paths & Keyframes: A new camera node with target tracking, smooth motion curves, and view switching for cinematic camera work.
- Timeline Video Rendering: Render 3D camera paths to MP4 in one click, then automatically return the result to the canvas for further generation.
- 3D AI Agent Assistance: Summon the AI Agent directly inside a 3D scene to fine-tune camera angles and object layout automatically.
Credit packs tailored to specific models, with a detailed dashboard; the platform now supports Spanish and Portuguese.
Pricing & Payments
- Model-Specific Credit Packs: Buy credit packs for the models you use most, and see remaining balances per model clearly in the account center.
Languages
- Spanish & Portuguese: The site now supports Español and Português, serving more creators across Latin America and Europe.
The canvas supports selecting multiple assets to group and rename in bulk; text nodes gain a distraction-free full-screen editing mode; project covers are easier to set.
Canvas
- Efficient Batch Organization: Select multiple assets to create a group node and rename them in bulk, keeping large, complex creative flows tidy.
- Immersive Text Editor: Text nodes switch to a distraction-free full-screen view in one click—ideal for long story scripts and complex prompts.
- Freeform Project Covers: Grab any highlight frame from your canvas work to use as the project cover.
A superhero-themed AI short film challenge with major prizes; Community video upgraded to HD streaming; a starter project for new users.
Events
- Superhero Creation Challenge: Submit original cinematic AI short films for a share of $4,000 in creative prizes, plus a special Zumi Jury Award.
Community
- Smooth HD Playback: Community videos now use adaptive streaming, with seamless handoff between the list preview and the detail page.
- Starter Template for New Creators: New accounts get a sample project preloaded on first login, so the core generation flow works right out of the box.
The built-in image editor gains a unified toolbar, with a free lasso, creative stickers, and rich text styling tools.
Image Editor
- All-in-One Editing Toolbar: A free lasso, geometric shapes, brush, eraser, and sticker library are deeply integrated for smoother retouching and composition.
- Rich Text Styles & Shortcuts: Custom typography and background styles, with clear shortcut hints for every tool.
Subscriptions gain an annual plan with exclusive discounts; the official user guide is fully revamped, covering everything from basics to advanced workflows.
Pricing & Payments
- Annual Discount Plan: A cost-effective annual subscription option, with seamless switching from monthly and automatic day-based credit for the remaining value of your existing plan.
New
- Comprehensive User Guide: The official guide is fully upgraded, systematically covering getting started, core tools, and advanced workflow techniques.
June 2026
Generate read-only snapshot links for projects and clone them in one click; share finished canvas work straight to a Community submission.
Projects
- Read-Only Snapshots & Safe Sharing: Generate a read-only snapshot link of a project's current state, so sharing with audiences or partners never risks unwanted edits to the original.
- One-Click Cloning & Community Submissions: Clone an entire project into your own workspace for remixing, and bring canvas work into the Community submission page in one click.
Zumi, the AI assistant, is embedded in the canvas, deeply aware of your node context and ready with next-step ideas and actions while you create.
Zumi
- Canvas-Aware Conversations: Multi-turn chat with history, where Zumi understands every asset node and creative thread on the current canvas.
- Smart Next-Step Suggestions: Zumi proactively recommends next actions and strong prompts based on the current composition, generating the corresponding node on the canvas in one click.
Studio includes a visual workflow editor for intuitively orchestrating complex node flows, plus multi-dimensional tags for organization and search.
Workflows
- Visual Pipeline Editing: Build generation pipelines visually in Studio, with a redesigned parameter panel and tuned defaults to speed up iteration.
- Workflow Tags: Add custom tags to workflows and quickly filter them by style, scene, and production stage in your workflow library.
Creator profiles now support series collections; the creator program opens verification and supports linking major social channels.
Community
- Series & Episodes: Organize multiple works into serialized collections on your creator profile, and let viewers binge the whole series from the playback page.
- Creator Verification & Program: Verification for the million-dollar creator growth fund is now open, with one-click linking of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other social channels.
May 2026
Comments, notifications, and creator following arrive in the Community; video submissions support resumable uploads and automatic draft saving.
Community
- Comments & Instant Notifications: Comment and discuss on works, get notified in real time when someone engages, and reply right from the notification center.
- Follow Creators: Follow creators you like with one click and track their latest releases and fan activity from your profile.
- Drafts & Resumable Uploads: Large video uploads resume automatically after network drops, and submissions are saved as drafts—so you can create with peace of mind.
Multiple people can create together on the same canvas in real time, with live cursors and edits; share projects securely with granular permissions.
Collaboration
- Real-Time Canvas Collaboration: Team members create on the same canvas together, with collaborators' cursors, selections, and edits shown live.
- Project Sharing & Permissions: Generate dedicated share links with configurable view or edit permissions, and manage shared projects separately in your project list.
A new account and billing center with credit statements and prorated plan upgrades; checkout now supports Stripe and Alipay; the site is bilingual in Chinese and English.
Account & Payments
- Unified Account Center: See your current billing cycle, credit balance, and transaction history at a glance. Upgrading a plan automatically credits the unused value of your current cycle.
- Mainstream Payment Methods: Checkout supports international credit cards (Stripe) and Alipay for smoother, more flexible payments.
Languages
- Chinese–English Switching: Switch seamlessly between Chinese and English across the site for a more natural, localized experience.
The canvas supports 3D World nodes with panoramic Gaussian Splatting previews for building scenes in 3D space; the asset library organizes assets in multi-level folders.
3D World
- Spatial Preview & Scene Building: A new 3D World node renders panoramic and Gaussian Splatting previews, with preset primitives and spatial snapping to assemble 3D scenes with ease.
Asset Library
- Structured Asset Management: Create multi-level folders, drag to organize, and run batch operations. Images, audio, and video on the canvas can be saved to the library in one click.
The all-new Infinite Canvas is live, with free-form node connections, prompt context references, and a command palette.
Canvas
- Free Connections & Node Creation: Drag connections anywhere on the infinite canvas to orchestrate your creative pipeline. Drop a connection onto empty space to instantly create a downstream node.
- Prompt Context References: Reference images or videos from upstream nodes directly in the input box with
@for coherent, progressive generation. - Global Toolbar & Command Palette: The canvas integrates asset management and generation panels, with a command palette (
Cmd/Ctrl + K) and keyboard shortcuts for efficient work.