HeyGen Video 1.0 Launches, Ranks #3 on Design Arena and Makes HeyGen #2 Video Lab
HeyGen · x · 2026-10-20
HeyGen officially launched Video 1.0, extending its avatar-first product to full video generation: product close-ups, b-roll, and cutaways. Per Design Arena, the model (1080p ultraquality, post-trained on MiniMax's H3) ranks #3 on both the Video and Image-to-Video leaderboards, making HeyGen the #2 video lab overall — behind only Google's Gemini Omni Flash and ahead of Alibaba's Wan 3.0, while generating faster than 71% of models.
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