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NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Is China smoking America in AI-generated video?
You may have recently seen a video on your feed of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out while fighting about Jeffrey Epstein. It went viral a few weeks ago, prompting a familiar wave of panic that AI might have replaced Hollywood.
This time, though? Yeah, Hollywood might be (partially) cooked.
That’s because Seedance 2.0, created by ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company) is the video model behind this newest wave of viral AI clips. And purely in terms of emulating traditional film cinematography, it’s more sophisticated than anything American AI has produced so far.
Turns out, China’s production dominance isn’t just in critical minerals or rare earth magnets: the country also possesses the largest trove of high-quality video data. And that data dominance, more than anything, is responsible for the high-quality AI-generated video inundating your feed.
Combine their data advantage with China’s autocratic government that will stop at nothing to help its tech dominate, and American AI companies clearly have their work cut out for them if they want to compete.
@eventidia and @EvanMilenko break down how China took the lead in AI video, and what it means for the future of the AI arms race. Full story 👇