This week in creative industries, agentic AI systems made big waves worldwide. In Spain, Southern Catalonia became home to one of the EU's first AI gigafactories focused on large-scale model training and hardware development. This facility will boost Europe's tech independence and create new jobs in creative AI fields.

Over in China, Alibaba's Qwen3 AI model narrowed the gap with US tech giants through better cost efficiency and multilingual features. This gives global creative teams more accessible tools for international projects.

Midjourney launched its first AI video generation model called "Model V1," letting users create dynamic clips from text prompts. This tool offers advanced control over motion and style, competing with top video AI platforms.

Copyright concerns remained top-of-mind as experts warned about legal risks in AI-generated creative work. Panels stressed that human creativity stays irreplaceable despite AI's efficiency gains.