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“ChinAI #257: Can Chinese companies keep up with Sora?” by Jeffrey Ding

Mar 11, 2024

The podcast delves into Chinese companies trying to match Sora's AI advancements, focusing on Shengshu-AI and its Tsinghua professor chief scientist. It explores China's progress in video generation, comparing methods with Sora. Additionally, it covers private hacking contractors in China, leaked documents revealing practices, and the tech-government alliance in surveillance.

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Chinese companies are striving to close the technological gap with Sora by leveraging innovative DIT method from Xing Xiuai.

Transitioning to longer video generation tasks requires significant technical challenges and expertise beyond computing power, emphasizing the role of engineering optimization.

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Chinese Companies' Efforts to Keep Up with Sora

Chinese companies, particularly Xing Xiuai, are striving to close the technological gap with Sora, an AI model that surprised the industry with its video generation capabilities. The emergence of Sora has raised concerns about the increasing divide between Chinese and Western AI advancements. Despite challenges in computing power and resource limitations, Xing Xiuai remains optimistic due to their work on a model similar to Sora's innovative DIT method. By highlighting the importance of engineering technology and leveraging experiences from 2D image generation, Xing Xiuai aims to navigate the complexities of advancing to longer video generation tasks.

Introduction

2min

Exploring China's Efforts in Video Generation and Comparison with Sora's Innovations

3min

Exploring Private Hacking Contractors and Surveillance State Creation

2min

Greetings from a world where…

March is mad

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Feature Translation: Can Chinese companies make Sora? This Tsinghua large model team gives hope

Context: Thanks for exercising your right to vote. In a close contest, the #6 option (link to original jiqizhixin article) won out: How are Chinese companies trying to keep up with Sora? This week we zoom in on Shengshu-AI (生数科技), a Beijing-based generative AI startup that has raised 14 million USD and boasts Jun Zhu (Tsinghua professor who co-directors Tsinghua's AI lab) as chief scientist. There are hopes and expectations that Shengshu [...]

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First published:
March 11th, 2024

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-257-can-chinese-companies

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