Who is actually shipping

Nobody maintains a list of what AI studios have actually released. Announcements are indexed, amplified and repeated until they read as output, and six months later it is genuinely hard to tell which pieces of work exist. This is a ledger, current to early November 2026, of what each studio has shipped against what it has announced. Where a claim comes from the studio rather than from a verifiable release, it is marked.

Promise

Shipped. More than 500 AI-generated shots for Harlan Coben's Final Twist Season 2, premiered on CBS on 5 October 2026, streaming on Paramount+. Ten real crime scenes reconstructed. The slate as of July 2026 ran to 17 projects with 6 in production. Promise has also acquired the AI film school Curious Refuge as a talent pipeline.

Verdict. The clearest delivery of the year, on a broadcast network, with a credit trail.

Asteria

Founded by Bryn Mooser and Natasha Lyonne. Shipped. The Odd Birds Show, animated shorts released to social platforms in April 2025. Announced only. The feature Uncanny Valley, Lyonne's directorial debut. Asteria also launched Continuum Suite on 11 March 2026, a production operating system rather than a generator, and announced a partnership with the Brooklyn virtual-production studio ZeroSpace on 31 July 2026.

Verdict. Real shipped work at short form. The feature remains the open question, and the product is honestly described.

Toonstar

Shipped. StEvEn & Parker on YouTube, a channel of roughly 3.38M subscribers with some episodes around 1M views. On hold. Space Junk. Announced, not released. A multi-year deal with HarperCollins, announced on 3 April 2026, to adapt titles as YouTube series in 2 to 10 minute episodes, starting with Friendship List by Lisa Greenwald. CEO John Attanasio told the New York Times that full episodes are produced "80 percent faster and 90 percent cheaper than industry norms". Treat that as the studio's own claim. We have seen no independent verification of either figure.

Verdict. Genuinely shipping, continuously, at volume, in a format where audience numbers are public. The economics are self-reported.

Secret Level

Founded by Jason Zada, who is also chief creative officer. Shipped. The Coca-Cola AI holiday ads. Marketing Dive credits Silverside AI and Secret Level under WPP Open X and VML. Secret Level Academy launched on 2 February 2026 at $849, rising to $1,299.

Verdict. Delivered for a global advertiser, through an agency structure, which is the closest comparison to a brand commission on this list.

Nolia Studios

Toronto, launched August 2026 by Bob Gaudette and Kirk Hipkiss. Shipped. Gaudette's eight-minute short A Face Only a Mother Could Love won the $50,000 Grand Prix at the 2026 Runway AI Festival, Best Picture at OMNI International and Best AI Film at the New York International Film Awards, and was a finalist at the 2026 Reply AI Film Festival in Venice. Sister company Radical Point Media does CG and AI work for Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and A+E. Launch coverage.

Verdict. Festival-proven short-form work with a conventional vendor business attached to it. A different and more durable shape than a pure AI studio.

iQIYI AI Film Studio

Shanghai, opened 2 November 2026, around 110 square metres. Live-action capture syncing to iQIYI's NadouPro platform, with access to roughly 30 models including Seedance 2.5 and Kling 4.0. Inaugural title Cop in Trouble began filming on 28 October 2026. In production, nothing released yet. Announcement.

“The projects that have shipped started from a production and used models inside it.”

Verdict. Too early to grade, and the most relevant entrant for anyone working in APAC. Note that it is built around capturing performance first.

Utopai Studios

Shipped. Products. PAI went to public release on 5 March 2026 and Utopai X on 30 September 2026. Not shipped. Any completed film or series. Variety reports three films and two series premiering in 2027.

Verdict. A software company with a film slate, which is a legitimate business and not the same business as a studio.

Dor Brothers

This entry is the caution. We could not find a single verified named, commissioned, client-credited piece of work from a reliable source. What exists is their own site and their own social channels, and an enormous amount of attention. That is not an accusation of anything. It is a statement about what is checkable.

Verdict. A viral-reputation studio, not a verified commissioned one, on the evidence available to us. Worth saying plainly, because this is how reputation forms in AI production: a recognisable visual signature circulates widely enough that commissioned delivery gets assumed. Assumption is not a credit list. If you are considering a commission, ask for one.

Lionsgate and Runway

Announced two years ago. Nothing shipped. An exclusive model trained on a catalogue of more than 20,000 titles, which per TheWrap's reporting hit copyright problems and a data-scale wall. That reporting dates to September 2025 and we found nothing since indicating the model has shipped.

Verdict. The reference case for why capacity announcements should not be read as output.

Netflix

Shipped. Generative AI workflows used in roughly 300 titles in 2026 per the Q2 2026 shareholder letter, concentrated in post-production, for enhanced crowds, historical battle sequences and worldbuilding establishing shots.

Verdict. The largest volume of delivered work by a wide margin, and the least cinematic use of it. That is not a contradiction.

The pattern in the ledger

Read the shipped column on its own and one thing is consistent. Nearly all of the verifiable delivered work is hybrid. Promise shot a presenter on a volume stage against an LED wall with camera-tracked parallax and built the environments behind him from generative AI, 3D, Gaussian splats and Unreal. iQIYI captures real performances and changes everything around them in post. Netflix extends and populates footage that a crew already shot. Nolia's festival work sits alongside a conventional CG business serving conventional broadcasters.

The projects that have not shipped are, with few exceptions, the ones that started from the model. The projects that have shipped started from a production and used models inside it.

If you are briefing a studio this quarter, that distinction is the only one on this page that costs money to get wrong. Ask which column their last piece of work sits in, and ask for the link.