# Netflix's First AI Model Erases Objects From Video — Then Simulates What Happens Next

> Everyone was so busy arguing about Gemma 4 benchmarks this week that Netflix quietly shipped something genuinely weird on HuggingFace.

- URL: https://neural-dispatch.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-netflix-void-physics-video-inpainting
- Blog: Neural Dispatch
- Date: 2026-04-04
- Updated: 2026-04-04
- Tags: netflix, void, video-inpainting, diffusion-models, open-source, computer-vision, cogvideox, apache-2

## Outline

- #Why This Isn't Just Another Inpainting Tool
- #The Two-Stage Pipeline
- #The Numbers That Matter
- #Running It Yourself
- #The Uncomfortable Part
- #Why Developers Should Pay Attention