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AI videos from China are coming for the world
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Vidu 2.0, a text-to-video AI model, was released last week by Beijing-based Shengshu Technology.
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Catherine Thorbecke
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Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies are laser-focused on closing the development gap with the US. Despite Washington’s efforts to hold the industry back, it’s proving it can stay competitive with Silicon Valley.
I spent some time playing around with Vidu 2.0, a revamped AI video generator that has been dubbed a domestic rival to OpenAI’s Sora. Released last week by Shengshu Technology – a Beijing-based start-up with ties to the backbone of Chinese AI innovation, Tsinghua University – the public platform lets anyone from around the world turn images into short videos.
