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Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test.
With China’s AI video generators pushing memes into weird territory, it was time to test one out.
After OpenAI made waves with Sora in February, two major AI models emerged from China: Kuaishou Technology's Kling and Minimax's video-01. Overall, the Minimax video-01 results seen above feel fairly similar to Gen-3's outputs, with some differences, like the lack of a celebrity filter on Will Smith (who sadly did not actually eat the spaghetti in our tests), and the more realistic cat hands and licking motion. But China's servers are doubtlessly cranking away at training new AI video models as we speak, so this deepfake arms race probably won't slow down any time soon.
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