Movie Magic: New video generation AI from China stuns the world
China shocked the AI world last year with DeepSeek, an LLM that was made at a fraction of the cost and still competitive in its performance. And now it has done it again with AI video generation. ByteDance is better known as the company that owns TikTok, but when it launched Seedance 2.0, the world was stunned. The model was coming out with videos that were like movie scenes and in 1080p high quality. Clips were also longer. One showing actors Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting went viral.
Responding to it, Rhett Reese, writer of movies like Deadpool, wrote on X, “I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”Numerous other videos made with known superheroes also began to wow viewers online. Disney sent a cease and desist notice to ByteDance, accusing it of using its material without licence to train the model. ByteDance has promised to institute guardrails, but the purpose of highlighting what the model was capable of has been accomplished. It can use multiple inputs of text, audio, and video to make scenes. Seedance’s success is also a testament to China not lagging in the AI race but, in fact, leading on some fronts now. It is currently only available in China but will soon launch elsewhere too.