Seedance 2.0 says it generates ‘cinematic content’ with ‘seamless video extension and natural language control’.
TikTok parent company ByteDance launched the pre-release version of its new AI video model, called Seedance 2.0, over the weekend, sparking value growth of shares in Chinese AI firms.
Seedance 2.0 markets itself as a “true” multi-modal AI creator, allowing users to combine images, videos, audio and text to generate “cinematic content” with “precise reference capabilities, seamless video extension and natural language control”. The model is currently available to select users of Jimeng AI, ByteDance’s AI video platform.
The new Seedance model allows exporting in 2k with 30pc faster generation than the previous version 1.5, the company’s website read.
Swiss-based consultancy CTOL called it the “most advanced AI video generation model available”, “surpassing OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3.1 in practical testing”.
Positive response to the Seedance 2.0 launch drove up shares in Chinese AI firms.
Data compiled by Bloomberg earlier today (9 February) showed publishing company COL Group Co hit its 20pc daily price ceiling, while Shanghai Film Co and gaming and entertainment firm Perfect World Co rose by 10pc. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index is up by 1.63pc at the time of publishing.
Consumer AI video generators have made leaps in advances in just a short period of time. The usual tells – blurry fingers, overly smooth and unrealistic skin and inexplainable changes from frame to frame – in AI videos are all becoming extremely hard to notice.
While rivalling AI video generator Sora 2 by OpenAI produces results with watermarks (although, there’s no shortage of tutorials on how to remove them), and Google’s Veo 3.1 comes with a metadata watermark called SynthID, Seedance boasts that its results are “completely watermark-free”.
The prevalence of advanced AI tools coupled with ease of access has opened the gates to a new wave of AI deepfakes, with the likes of xAI’s Grok at the centre of the issue.
Last month, the EU launched a new investigation into X to probe whether the Elon Musk-owned social media site properly assessed and mitigated risks stemming from its in-platform AI chatbot Grok after it was outfitted with the ability to edit images.
Users on the social media site quickly prompted the tool to undress people – generally women and children – in images and videos. Millions of such pieces of content were generated on X, The New York Times found.
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