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.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, humanity seems to be closer to the virtual scenes depicted in the movie 'The Matrix'. Recently, an innovative AI basic world simulator named 'The Matrix' was officially launched by an all-Chinese team, capable of infinitely generating high-fidelity 720p realistic scene videos and supporting real-time interaction. This simulator showcases a 14-minute demo video, but in reality, it can continuously generate content for up to an hour, covering various scenes such as deserts, grasslands, bodies of water, and cities.

Video editing platform InVideo recently launched a significant upgrade version 3.0, introducing AI-based text-to-video generation capabilities. Users can create real-life footage, animated, or anime-style video content simply by entering text prompts, with customizable adjustments for different platforms such as YouTube, Instagram Reels, and LinkedIn. Although this new feature relies on third-party AI models, users can dynamically modify the video in real-time by adding text prompts.

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.

Beijing AiShi Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that its PixVerse platform has officially opened its text-to-video and image-to-video technology services to the public. Previously, AiShi Technology's PixVerse V3 had a global simultaneous launch, achieving significant improvements in foundational model capabilities. It offers multi-modal generation capabilities and rich AI features, including creative templates, lip-sync matching, story continuation, and style transfer.

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.

Recently, the short video platform TikTok announced a partnership with Getty Images to launch a new AI ad creation tool. Through this collaboration, advertisers can directly use licensed images and videos provided by Getty Images when utilizing TikTok's AI ad creation tools, producing ads that include AI-generated content. The platform's AI avatar feature can create virtual characters that look like real people, adding richer expressions to the advertising content.

Apple has released Final Cut Pro 11, introducing a series of new features, including AI-driven magnetic masking and Transcribe to Captions. The software will be available for download on Wednesday, with existing users receiving the update for free, while new users will need to pay $300 to download. New features in Final Cut Pro 11 include: Magnetic Masking, which allows for easy cropping of people and objects from videos without relying on green screens.

On the occasion of Vidu's launch anniversary, Shengshu Technology is proud to announce the release of the new version Vidu 1.5, which achieves world-leading breakthroughs, especially in understanding diverse inputs and overcoming the 'consistency' challenge. The launch of Vidu 1.5 marks a new 'contextual' era for visual models, accelerating the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). From its global debut, Vidu has demonstrated the ability to generate character consistency.

Today, the Zhipu Technology team released its latest video generation model, CogVideoX v1.5, and made it open source. This version is another significant advancement in the CogVideoX series launched by the Zhipu Technology team since August. The update greatly enhances video generation capabilities, including support for 5-second and 10-second video lengths, 768P resolution, and the ability to generate 16 frames. Additionally, the I2V (Image-to-Video) model supports arbitrary aspect ratios, further improving the understanding of complex semantics.

Beijing Zhizhu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. announced that its CogVideoX series models have launched the latest version - CogVideoX v1.5, which is now open source. Since its release in early August, this series of models has become a leader in the video generation field due to its industry-leading technology and developer-friendly features. The new version, CogVideoX v1.5, has been significantly upgraded, enhancing video generation capabilities and now supports 5/10 second, 768P, 16-frame video generation.