Chinese AI videos are coming for much more than Hollywood
China’s early advantages may determine who leads the next era of artificial intelligence.
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China’s dominance in generative video could give it an advantage in building so-called “world models”, long heralded as the next generation of AI.
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Catherine Thorbecke
New large language models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 have dominated the debate about China’s artificial intelligence ambitions. Yet the clearest evidence of the country’s prowess may be in video, and the stakes could extend far beyond just shaking up Hollywood.
Outside Alphabet’s Google, nearly all of the leading video-generation models are Chinese, making up nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on benchmarking platform Artificial Analysis’ leaderboard.
