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Pine AI releases open-source filmmaking studio and adds phone calls

Pine Drama Studio gives creators an open-source workflow for producing AI-generated series, with paid cloud computing. Pine Phone lets agents place calls as part of tasks in Pine Computer.

AI.info Team · · fact-checked · against 1 source ↓ · Published 13 Nov 2026

Pine AI has released an open-source filmmaking studio that uses agents to turn screenplays into episodes, while adding phone calls to its Pine Computer platform. The company said in a Nov. 13 release that Pine Drama Studio is free to use, although the cloud computing that runs its agents and generation is paid.

The releases come weeks after Pine Computer's launch. Pine says the computer drew about 24 million views on its Oct. 9 launch day, and that production teams now use it for video creation and other long-running work.

From screenplay to episodes

A producer starts a project with a screenplay and a single instruction. Agents build a story bible, design characters, locations and props for the series, and then storyboard and generate shots. They check takes, 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, allowing a series to be produced concurrently; when something changes, agents regenerate only the affected shots.

The studio grew out of work developers had built on Pine Computer, where AI short-drama production was the first workload to take off. An Australian AI short-drama studio moved its production onto Pine Drama Studio in October after a September beta.

Pine says each member of that team previously produced 2 to 3 minutes of video a day and now produces 30 to 50 minutes a day, with several episodes in production at once. The production company's CTO, identified as Alec, said the same team could produce 10 times more video while working on multiple episodes in parallel.

Code is free, computing is paid

The studio is free under the Apache 2.0 license. Teams can change its code and workflows in its skill files, select 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 that computing is the paid part of the offering. Creators and studios can download the software from its GitHub repository and create a project key at pinecomputer.io.

Calls within a task

Pine Phone is a capability within Pine Computer rather than a separate voice assistant. In the company's example, an agent changing a booking in a browser can call a business if the final step requires a conversation, then complete the task without switching apps.

People already using Muse or Instinct can connect them to Pine Phone. The calling feature runs on Pine Voice 1.0, which Pine says ranks first on the English version of the τ³-Voice benchmark with an 87.3% Pass@1 score.

The benchmark, from researchers at Sierra and Princeton, tests whether real-time voice AI can hold a conversation while completing real-world tasks. Earlier in 2026, Pine says, Pine Voice ranked ahead of published systems from xAI, OpenAI and Google on the benchmark.