ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 6 Lightricks releases since May 2025, most recently LTX-2.5 on Aug 13, 2026. Highlights include LTX-2.5, LTX Video (distilled), LTX Video 2.3, LTX Retake. 4 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live, plus key numbers where we have them.
LTX-2.5: 22B open-weights video model with multi-shot generation
Lightricks released LTX-2.5, a 22B-parameter open-weights video model with multi-shot support. It generates 10 seconds of 1080p video in 23.7 seconds on fal and needs a minimum of 16GB VRAM.
Lightricks ships open-source LTX Video 2.3, runs on an RTX 3090
Lightricks released LTX Video 2.3, an open-source video generation model with improved motion, audio, and quality that runs on a single RTX 3090. It is available on GitHub and Hugging Face.
Lightricks open-sources LTX-2 synchronized audio-video model
Lightricks open-sourced LTX-2, billed as the first truly open audio-video generation model with synchronized audio and video output, releasing full training code alongside the weights. A distilled version is available to try on Replicate.
LTX Studio's Retake brings Photoshop-style object editing to video
LTX Studio launched Retake, an AI video editing tool that enables inpainting-style editing of specific objects within video frames. Wolfram called it 'the image editing moment for video' — Photoshop for video, available to try on Replicate.
LTX-2: native 4K audio+video generation engine from Lightricks
Lightricks announced LTX-2 as breaking news on the show: a video generation engine producing native 4K video (no upscaling) with synchronized audio, positioned as a fast, efficient open alternative to closed models like Sora. It is billed as open-source with weights coming this fall.
LTX distilled model enables near real-time video generation
Lightricks shared a distilled version of its LTX video model that generates video at near real-time speeds. It was highlighted in the vision and video segment as a notable speed milestone for video generation.
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