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releasePRIMARY2026-06-25
Pika adds Seedance 2.0 Mini through MCP workflows

Pika made Seedance 2.0 Mini available through its MCP, following earlier native 4K Seedance support in the same layer. The change gives creators a cheaper and faster Seedance option inside Pika's workflow stack.

releasePRIMARY2026-06-18
Pika introduces Influencer Ignition Kit MCP with 4 growth skills

Pika rolled out an MCP bundle for creator growth with Persona Builder, Content Director, Viral Hook, and Fix My Look. The release packages audience and presentation tasks as reusable agent skills, so creators can try the workflow across more posts and profiles.

releasePRIMARY2026-06-15
Pika launches Director’s Suite with 6-minute TV pilot demo

Pika introduced Director’s Suite as an agentic workspace for concepting, casting, storyboards, generation, and edits in one project. Creator demos show the same stack assembling a 6-minute pilot in one interface, pushing AI video toward episode-length production.

workflowPRIMARY2026-06-10
Pika supports six-language Language Swap demos through MCP

Pika expanded its Language Swap story with official multi-language demos and creator tests of own-voice Japanese dubbing through MCP. The evidence matters because localization is shifting from voice replacement toward performance-preserving video translation inside creator workflows.

workflowPRIMARY2026-06-09
Pika adds Language Swap to MCP for own-voice video dubbing

Pika launched a Language Swap skill in Pika MCP that re-dubs talking-head videos into other languages while keeping the speaker’s voice profile and lip sync. Creator demos in Japanese and Mandarin show it is already usable, though facial hair and loose framing can still distort mouth motion.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-28
Pika launches Founder Starter Kit for Claude MCP with four launch skills

Pika released a four-skill bundle for Claude via MCP covering brand creation, app screens, product sizzle videos, and founder videos. Demo posts show a single App Store link can generate polished promo assets inside one chat workflow, so founders can test it for faster launch content.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-26
Pika launches Generative UI experiment with voice-controlled HTML layouts

Pika opened its first Pika Experiments release, a voice-controlled Generative UI system that generates HTML layouts dynamically and is available on GitHub through Pika MCP. The experiment pushes Pika beyond media generation into interface composition, but the company is positioning it as rough early work.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-14
Pika launches MCP access and Pika Agent editing inside Claude

Pika launched MCP access and Pika Agent flows for Claude, and a creator demo showed a full edit completed without Premiere or After Effects. It matters because model access and edit actions move into one chat-driven video workflow.

releasePRIMARY2026-05-01
Pika launches Claude MCP with podcast, explainer and UGC ad skills

Pika launched a Claude connector that turns prompts, URLs and repos into explainers, podcast clips and UGC ads. The update keeps face, voice and identity controls inside Claude workflows, so creators can build video assets without switching apps.

workflowPRIMARY2026-04-29
Pika Agents supports GPT Images 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 ad workflows

Creator tests showed Pika Agents using GPT Images 2.0 for storyboards, extending two 15-second Seedance 2.0 clips into one ad, and running from Telegram on mobile. The workflows matter because Pika is being used as an orchestration layer for multi-model ad production, not just one-shot video output.

releasePRIMARY2026-04-28
Pika launches Agents with voice, face and one-shot video outputs

Pika launched Pika Agents, a persona-based interface for making videos, ads, decks and designs by talking to a custom face-and-voice agent. Early creator demos show marketing, research and fashion workflows, but most evidence is still from launch-day tests.

releasePRIMARY2026-04-02
Pika launches PikaStream 1.0 video chat skill for Google Meet and any agent

Pika released a beta skill that lets Pika AI Selfs and third-party agents join Google Meet with real-time face and voice, and published the integration on GitHub. Pika says memory and personality persist across calls, while beta notes and user posts report glitches as the feature expands beyond Pika’s own agents.

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