OpenAI OpenAI has teased, and repeatedly delayed, the release of Sora for nearly a year. On Tuesday, the company finally unveiled a fully functional version of the new video-generation model destined for public use and, despite the initial buzz, more and more early users of the release don’t seem overly impressed. And neither am I. … Read more
OpenAI OpenAI’s unreleased Sora video generation model was leaked Tuesday by a group protesting the company’s “art washing” actions, per a post from X user @legit_rumors. The group, calling themselves Sora PR Puppets, reportedly had gained early access to the Sora API. Through that, they leveraged authentication tokens to create a front-end interface enabling anyone … Read more
China’s state-backed unicorn Zhipu AI has introduced a series of artificial intelligence (AI) features to its video tool Ying, in a heated race with other start-ups and Big Tech companies to woo users in a growing market for AI-assisted video creation tools. After the updates, Ying will be able to generate 4K high-definition video clips … Read more
A safety executive at OpenAI made a rare speech at an event hosted by a major Chinese video streaming platform, calling for the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI). Lilian Weng Li, a research vice-president on AI safety at the Microsoft-backed start-up, said at an event hosted by Chinese streaming platform Bilibili last week that … Read more
Meta Meta revealed Movie Gen, its third-wave multimodal video AI, on Friday. It promises to “produce custom videos and sounds, edit existing videos, and transform your personal image into a unique video,” while outperforming similar models like Runway’s Gen-3, Kuaishou Technology’s Kling 1.5, or OpenAI’s Sora. Meta Movie Gen builds off of the company’s earlier work, … Read more
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology backbone of the e-commerce giant, announced the release of more than 100 of its newly launched Qwen 2.5 LLMs to the global open-source community at the opening of the three-day Apsara Conference, its annual flagship event that runs until Saturday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. “Alibaba Cloud is … Read more
Chinese short-video app operator Kuaishou Technology is offering a monthly subscription to its Sora-like artificial intelligence (AI) video generating service, as China’s AI players step up efforts to monetise the cutting-edge technology. Kuaishou, the major domestic rival of TikTok’s sister app Douyin, is charging 19 yuan (US$2.66) for the first month and 58 yuan per … Read more
Chinese firms from start-up Zhipu AI to tech giant ByteDance have rushed to launch artificial intelligence (AI) video-generation tools in recent days, but face challenges in differentiating themselves from local rivals in the market. Other new market entrants include short video platform operator Kuaishou Technology and start-up Shengshu AI, which released video generation tools for … Read more
China is narrowing the artificial intelligence (AI) gap with the US through rapid progress in deploying applications and state-backed adoption of the technology, despite the lack of access to advanced chips, according to industry experts and analysts. Chinese tech firms have rushed to create their own large language models (LLMs) – the underlying technology behind … Read more
Sora’s lead in the generative video space is already in jeopardy, and Meta’s highly anticipated AI hasn’t even been released yet. On Wednesday, Chinese tech titan Kuaishou Technology announced that its Kling AI video-generation system is now available to users around the globe. Kling had officially launched in China last month, but was only available … Read more
