Recently, New York-based company Runway announced the launch of a new talent network aimed at helping brands, agencies, and film production companies hire AI film creators. With advancements in video generation by Google and OpenAI, Runway hopes to expand the application of its AI video tools through this platform. The new Runway talent network provides a platform for creators, artists, and companies focused on AI video tools from around the world to showcase their work.

Beijing TuSimple Technology Co., Ltd. has officially changed its name to CreateAI. This rebranding comes alongside the announcement of several significant advancements in the generative AI field, marking its ambitious plans to apply generative AI technology in the animation and video game industries. Additionally, CreateAI announced that it has acquired the official licensing rights to the renowned wuxia intellectual property 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' and plans to develop a large-scale open-world RPG game. Furthermore, the company will collaborate with notable animation director Masashi Hoshino and leading animation production company Hashimoto Co., Ltd. to utilize AIGC.

Chinese AI video generation startup Aishi Technology recently announced the completion of its Series A2 to A4 financing, raising nearly 300 million yuan. Previously, the Series A2 financing was funded by Ant Group, while the recent Series A3 and A4 rounds were co-invested by the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Guoke Investment, and Guangyuan Capital. This round of financing will primarily be used to enhance technological research and development capabilities, expand computing power resources, build a talent team, and accelerate product feature iteration and market coverage, thereby continuously promoting the widespread application of AI video generation technology.

Pollo AI, a leader in the field of AI video generation, recently released four new AI effects, attracting attention in the industry once again. Users can easily achieve effects like 'squeeze,' 'inflate,' 'explode,' and 'melt' by simply uploading static images, bringing anything (or anyone) to 'life' in videos using advanced AI technology. Additionally, Pollo AI has appropriately introduced several holiday-themed templates to help users quickly create short videos filled with a Christmas atmosphere. The four newly launched effects each have their own unique characteristics.

Google has officially released its next-generation video generation model Veo2, aiming to compete with OpenAI's Sora. Google claims that Veo2 demonstrates higher realism and intricacy in video generation. This update not only enhances video quality but also improves understanding of real-world physics and the subtle nuances of human movement and expression. Google states that Veo2 has a better understanding of the physics of the real world as well as the nuances of human movement and expression.

Israeli tech company Lightricks has recently launched a lightning-fast AI video processing platform called LTX Video (LTXV). This platform uses advanced artificial intelligence models that can run on commonly used graphics processing units (GPU). Released in late November, LTXV can generate a 5-second AI video clip at a resolution of 768x512 in just 4 seconds, making it stand out among other AI video platforms. With its 2 billion parameters, it is capable of even...

Today, Deepfake is ubiquitous. With the rise of generative AI, the amount of false content online has exploded. According to identity verification platform Sumsub, the number of Deepfakes globally has increased fourfold from 2023 to 2024. By 2024, Deepfake will account for 7% of all fraud incidents, involving everything from identity impersonation and account theft to complex social engineering attacks. To effectively combat Deepfake, Meta...

Adobe is making a significant expansion into the artificial intelligence (AI) space, launching a brand new high-end video generation feature based on the tremendous success of the Firefly AI platform. According to the company, the Firefly platform has generated over 16 billion pieces of content since its launch, demonstrating its impact. In a fourth-quarter earnings call on December 11 (Wednesday), Adobe announced plans to launch AI video generation capabilities as a premium service in early next year. Currently, this feature is in a limited

OpenAI's video generation tool Sora has garnered significant attention since its launch, but where it draws its expertise from has remained a mystery. Now, a corner of that mystery seems to be revealed: Sora's training data likely contains a large amount of game live streams and tutorial videos from Twitch! Sora acts like a skilled 'master of imitation', capable of generating videos of up to 20 seconds long just from text prompts or images, and can handle various aspect ratios and resolutions. In February of this year, OpenAI first publicly introduced Sora.

EndlessAI, a four-year-old AI startup, recently launched its iOS application Lloyd, which has attracted over 50,000 users just three months after its quiet release. What sets Lloyd apart is its proprietary video streaming and encoding technology, which combines users' real-time videos with AI models to support a variety of tasks, from bike repair to storytelling. Currently, 41% of users engage with the application daily. Although Lloyd has not yet reached the user levels of ChatGPT.

Recently, Visual China announced a strategic partnership with Beijing Vidu Technology Co., Ltd. to jointly explore and establish a 'Visual Industry Large Model Platform and Applications.' This collaboration aims to deepen the application of artificial intelligence technology in the visual content industry and promote the intelligent upgrading of the industry, with the goal of providing more efficient and intelligent services for global visual content creators and users.

Today, in another significant breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman posted on social media platform X, acknowledging that the company severely underestimated the demand for the AI video production model Sora. Sora is an AI video generation platform launched by OpenAI that can create high-quality video content from text prompts or static photos. The release of this tool marks a significant advancement in video generation technology and signifies a potential transformation in the creative industry.

Kuaishou announced that China's first AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) director co-creation project, the 'Keling AI Director Co-Creation Project', will officially launch on December 6. This project is initiated by Kuaishou Technology's self-developed video generation large model product 'Keling AI' in collaboration with nine renowned directors including Li Shaohong and Jia Zhangke, covering diverse genres such as fantasy, weird tales, family themes, and animation.

The AI chat tool Kimi is currently beta testing its innovative feature 'Kimi Creation Space', an AI video generation service that has attracted widespread attention in the industry. According to Sina Technology, this feature is currently in a gray testing phase and provides users with a new way of creative expression. Insiders revealed that 'Kimi Creation Space' will be launched in the bottom area of the Kimi official website homepage. Users can create personalized music videos using 12 preset style templates and custom creation features. Notably, users will receive 100 seconds of free video generation each day.

YouTube introduced a significant update to its Shorts feature this Thursday. By integrating Google's DeepMind Veo video generation model, the Dream Screen functionality now supports AI video background generation, allowing for 1080p HD video output, greatly enhancing creators' short video production. The application of this technology is extremely simple and intuitive. Creators just need to open the Shorts camera, click the 'Green Screen' icon, select the 'Dream Screen' feature, and input the desired scene.

Recently, researchers from ByteDance Research Institute and Tsinghua University jointly released a new study, pointing out that current AI video generation models, such as OpenAI's Sora, while capable of creating stunning visual effects, have significant flaws in understanding basic physical laws. This study has sparked widespread discussion on the capabilities of AI in simulating reality. The research team tested AI video generation models under three different scenarios: predictions under known patterns and predictions under unknown patterns.

TikTok recently announced that its AI-driven video generation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, is now fully available to all TikTok business users. This tool will provide advertisers and content creators with an unprecedented creative experience. This intelligent tool, which integrates video generation, transformation, and expansion functions, aims to help advertisers and creators overcome the bottleneck between creativity and production, making the video creation process simpler and more efficient. Users can access the full suite of features at no additional cost.