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With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, iPIKA, an AI video generation platform, recently launched a striking new feature—allowing you to meet your younger self. This feature has quickly sparked heated discussions since its launch, becoming another innovative case combining technology and emotion. iPIKA's new feature allows users to generate a virtual video interacting with their younger selves by uploading a childhood photo and a selfie video. The specific operation process is: Users shoot a selfie video, ensuring that half of the screen is left empty (themselves located on the left or right).

Diffusion models have garnered significant attention in the field of AI video generation due to their superior performance. However, their inherent iterative denoising nature leads to a time-consuming and computationally expensive generation process, significantly hindering their widespread adoption. Recently, a research team from Beihang University, the University of Hong Kong, and the Shanghai AI Laboratory jointly released AccVideo, an innovative technology. This method, employing a novel and efficient distillation approach combined with a synthetic dataset, successfully boosts the generation speed of video diffusion models by an impressive 8.5 times.

In the field of artificial intelligence, Kuaishou's Keling AI is gradually emerging as a dark horse in video generation applications. According to the latest earnings call, Cheng Yixiao, founder and CEO of Kuaishou, revealed that since its launch in June last year, Keling AI's revenue has exceeded 100 million yuan, making it the largest commercially successful video generation AI application in China. Keling AI's strong functionality and early market entry have secured its position in the fiercely competitive AI market. Cheng Yixiao emphasized that with the continued development of AI...

On March 25th, Kuaishou released its full-year 2024 financial results, reporting a year-on-year revenue growth of 11.8% to 126.9 billion yuan, and adjusted net profit reached 17.7 billion yuan, a significant year-on-year increase of 72.5%. A highlight of the report is the rapid commercial progress of Keling AI, its video generation large language model launched in June last year. By February this year, it had accumulated over 100 million yuan in revenue. Keling AI adopts a membership fee model for C-end users and has established API subscription partnerships with thousands of B-end enterprises. Kuaishou CEO Cheng Yixiao revealed in the earnings conference call that Keling AI is already serving...

LiblibAI has integrated Alibaba's Tongyi large language model to launch a new feature enabling users to generate 10-second AI videos quickly and easily.

Beijing Shengshu Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its AI video generation platform, Vidu, has secured the rights to adapt seven hit online novel IPs into concept shorts. Vidu will leverage AI technology to empower China's animation and short-form drama market, driving the adaptation of online literature into film and television into a new phase of development.

Another chapter in the expansion of Silicon Valley tech giants! Elon Musk's xAI company today announced the acquisition of Hotshot, a startup focused on AI-powered video generation. This strategic acquisition will inject new vitality into xAI's multimodal AI technology. Hotshot CEO Aakash Sastry officially announced the news on the X platform, but did not disclose the specific transaction amount. Previously backed by investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and SV Angel...

On March 17, Beijing Shengshu Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its video large model product, Vidu, has reached a strategic cooperation with Aura Productions, a renowned American animation studio, to jointly create the first overseas AI-original sci-fi anime series. This collaboration marks the formal integration of AI technology into the anime production workflow, setting a precedent for AI video generation platforms to participate in the creation of anime shorts and propelling the animation industry into a new AI-driven era.

Heard of OpenAI's extravagant Sora? With training costs easily exceeding millions of dollars, it's like the Rolls-Royce of video generation. Now, LuChern Technology announces the open-sourcing of its video generation model, Open-Sora 2.0! For a mere $200,000 (equivalent to 224 GPUs), they successfully trained a commercial-grade video generation model with 11 billion parameters. Performance rivals OpenAI Sora. Don't let the low cost of Open-Sora 2.0 fool you...

Still lamenting the high barrier to entry for video production and the complexities of post-editing? Fear not! Alibaba's Tongyi Wan team has launched their latest heavyweight model: the All-in-One video generation and editing model—VACE. One of VACE's most striking capabilities is its powerful conditional video generation function. This means you only need to describe your desired scene in text, and VACE will quickly transform your imagination into reality. It's like having a dream film crew at your command, with astonishing efficiency!

According to Phoenix Technology, Luo Yihang recently joined Shengshu Technology as CEO, assuming full responsibility for the company's R&D, product development, commercialization, and team management. Holding a doctorate in Automation from Tsinghua University, he has over a decade of experience in cloud computing and AI, possessing a strong technical background and commercialization expertise. Before joining Shengshu Technology, Luo served as the head of ByteDance's Volcano Engine AI application product line, reporting directly to the president of Volcano Engine. It's understood that he built this product line from the ground up, overseeing numerous AI-related products and managing a team of hundreds. Previously, he also participated in...

Recently, the Modelers community officially launched Step-Video and Step-Audio, two open-source multimodal large models developed by Step-Star. These models are designed for video generation and voice interaction, respectively, aiming to provide developers and enterprise users with more powerful AI tools. Step-Video, formally known as Step-Video-T2V, is a 30-billion parameter model, making it the world's largest open-source video generation model. This model can directly generate 20...

Heygem is an open-source alternative to HeyGen, offering precise cloning of appearance and voice, and supporting lip-sync for realistic video generation.

The DeepBeepMeep team recently released Wan2.1GP on GitHub, a video generation model optimized for users with low-end GPUs. Based on Alibaba's Wan2.1, this model aims to provide powerful video generation capabilities to those lacking access to high-performance GPU resources. The launch of Wan2.1GP marks a significant advancement in video generation technology, particularly within the open-source community. Image source note: Image generated by AI, licensed from Midjourney.

OpenAI's leadership team announced during a Discord office hours session on Friday that the company plans to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into the popular ChatGPT application, further expanding its AI creative ecosystem. Currently, Sora is only available through a dedicated web application launched by OpenAI in December, allowing users to access the AI video model to generate movie clips up to 20 seconds long. Rohan Sahai, OpenAI's product lead for Sora, stated that...