SAN FRANCISCO — November 13, 2026 -- Pine AI released Pine Drama Studio, a free open-source AI filmmaking studio under the Apache 2.0 license, and added phone calling to Pine Computer, 35 days after the platform's Oct. 9 launch. One Australian studio says its output per team member rose from 2-3 minutes of video a day to 30-50 minutes, which works out to a 10- to 25-fold increase by our calculation.
Australian studio reports output rising from 2-3 to 30-50 minutes of video a day
The studio, an Australia-based AI short-drama company, moved production onto Pine Drama Studio in October after a September beta. Its CTO, identified only as Alec, says the same team now produces 10 times more video and runs several episodes in parallel. The figures are the customer's own and were not independently verified. The range of 10 to 25 times comes from dividing the low and high ends of the two daily-output ranges (30 by 3, and 50 by 2).
Pine says Pine Computer drew about 24 million views on its Oct. 9 launch day. It does not say how many users or paying teams followed.
In the studio, a producer supplies a screenplay and one instruction. Agents then build the story bible, design characters, locations and props once for the whole series, storyboard and generate every shot, check takes and redo those that drift, and cut approved takes into episodes. Creators approve designs, storyboards, takes and final cuts. Each episode runs on its own Pine Computer. When a script change occurs, agents regenerate only the affected shots.
Pine keeps the software free and charges for cloud compute
Teams can modify the studio's code and its workflow, which is defined in plain skill files. They can also choose their own models and add steps such as dubbing and localization. Projects and production know-how stay in the studio's own folder.
Generation and agent work run on Pine Computers in the cloud, and Pine says that compute is the paid part. For studios running many episodes in parallel, compute is therefore the recurring cost. Pine did not disclose pricing for it.
Pine Phone lets agents finish tasks that end in a call
Pine Phone is built into Pine Computer rather than offered as a separate voice assistant. An agent changing a booking in a browser can phone the business, talk the request through and complete the task without switching applications. Existing users of Pine's Muse or Instinct products can connect them to Pine Phone.
Pine Phone runs on Pine Voice 1.0. The company says the model ranks first on the English version of a voice-AI benchmark from researchers at Sierra and Princeton, with 87.3% Pass@1. The company also says Pine Voice ranked ahead of published systems from xAI, OpenAI and Google when it reached first place earlier in 2026.
Creators and studios download Pine Drama Studio from GitHub and create a project key on Pine's site. Developers can build on Pine Computer and attach Pine Phone to their agents through the same site.