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ByteDance's New AI Video Model Goes Viral as China Looks for Second DeepSeek Moment
Seedance 2.0 processes multiple media types to create cinematic videos, gaining tens of millions of views and endorsements from Elon Musk, highlighting China's AI innovation.
- On Feb 12, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, designed for professional film, e-commerce and advertising, processing text, images, audio and video simultaneously to lower content-creation costs.
- Against a backdrop of DeepSeek's 2025 shock, the launch comes as China and global investors seek a successor to DeepSeek's R1 and V3 after their early 2025 debut triggered a systemic shock, Global Times noted.
- Users on China’s Weibo circulated videos with bizarre prompts, while hashtags hit tens of millions of clicks and Elon Musk replied `It's happening fast.`
- Seedance 2.0 immediately earned praise for producing cinematic storylines from just a few prompts, Reuters reported, drawing investors and Silicon Valley interest this year.
- This year, the continued breakout success of Seedance 2.0 and similar innovations has fueled admiration for China's AI within Silicon Valley, as video-generation models emerge beyond text-centric models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.0 AI Video Model to Rival OpenAI, Google
ByteDance just fired a starting pistol in the AI video race… and it is not aiming for second place. The TikTok parent rolled out Seedance 2.0, a video model that quickly went viral in China, and highlighted major upgrades to its Seedream image tools. The company has designed Seedance 2.0 for professional film, e-commerce, and advertising production, signaling its latest foray into multimodal generative AI. The launch puts ByteDance into direct …
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