Video Generation
2 milestones in AI history
Sora: AI Video Generation
OpenAI previewed Sora, a model that could generate photorealistic videos up to a minute long from text descriptions. The quality stunned the world — realistic physics, complex camera movements, and coherent scenes that looked like professional cinematography.
Three Chinese Labs Ship Major Models in 24 Hours
Within a single day, DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-0731 — comparable to frontier Western models on coding at roughly a 99% discount — MiniMax released H3, an omni-modal model generating 15-second 2K video clips, and ByteDance launched Seedance 2.5, extending single-run video generation to 30 seconds. The releases landed amid a brutal late-July selloff in which the world's 20 most valuable chip companies lost about $1.3 trillion in market value on fears that China's semiconductor progress and cheap models would reset AI economics.