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China’s generative video race heats up
On Monday, Tencent, the Chinese internet giant known for its video gaming empire and chat app WeChat, unveiled a new version of its open source video
An academic paper published by the team behind DynamiCrafter notes that its technology differs from those of competitors in that it broadens the applicability of image animation techniques to “more general visual content.” In a demo (see below) that compares DynamiCrafter, Stable Video Diffusion (launched in November), and the recently hyped-up Pika Labs, the result of the Tencent model appears slightly more animated than others. Like Tencent, Alibaba has made its video generation model VGen open source, a strategy that’s increasingly popular among Chinese tech firms hoping to reach the global developer community.
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