ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and Kuaishou's Kling Omni Director represent the next generation of AI video control, with Seedance 2.5 offering 30-second clips and up to 50 reference inputs for consistency,…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 AI video model generates native 30-second clips in a single pass and supports up to 50 multimodal references for controlling subjects, styles, and scenes. The model, developed…
ByteDance's Seed team released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model that accepts up to 50 multimodal references including images, video, audio, and 3D assets to maintain consistency across 30-se…
Qualcomm stock surged over 13% after the chipmaker raised its fiscal 2029 non-handset revenue target to $40 billion, doubling its previous goal, with over $15 billion expected from its new AI data cen…
Qualcomm announced Meta as its first major Big Tech customer for data center CPUs, signing a multi-generation strategic agreement centered on the Dragonfly C1000 chip designed for agentic AI workloads…
Qualcomm announced Meta as the first named customer for its Dragonfly C1000 data centre chip, set for 2028, and confirmed a $3.9 billion acquisition of AI software startup Modular. The moves signal Qu…
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is in early-stage talks to raise approximately $20 billion in what would be its largest offshore loan ever, nearly doubling its previous record. The funds are …
A new report from video editing software company Kapwing found that 57.4% of TikTok videos targeting children are AI-generated slop, with the #cartoonkids hashtag almost entirely composed of such cont…
OpenAI signed a multi-year display deal with Getty Images to show licensed photos in ChatGPT, boosting Getty's stock by ~145%. ByteDance teased Seedance 2.5, a 30-second AI video generator with single…
Qualcomm is negotiating to design custom chips for ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, as part of a deeper push into AI data center infrastructure. The deal would involve application-specific integrat…
ByteDance is in preliminary talks with banks to secure a record $20bn offshore loan, its largest ever, to fund AI infrastructure build-out including chips and data centers. The three-year facility, ex…
OpenRouter launched a Unified Image API providing standardized access to over 30 image generation models from providers including Google, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. The API includes a model discov…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generator supporting text-to-video and image-to-video creation for marketing content. The tool offers brand consistency, multi-platform formats, and produc…
ByteDance is seeking a $20 billion offshore loan to fund an AI infrastructure buildout, nearly doubling its previous record, as the TikTok parent pivots from social media to competing with OpenAI. The…
A developer compared API pricing versus self-hosting costs for open-source AI models, finding that for small projects with 1 million tokens per day, using an API is 32 times cheaper than self-hosting.…
Zhipu AI, a Chinese large language model developer, plans a Shanghai STAR Market listing to raise about $2.2 billion, six months after its Hong Kong IPO saw shares surge over 2,000%. The company, with…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and Google's Gemini Omni Flash compete in AI video generation, with Seedance excelling in motion realism and facial consistency, while Gemini Omni Flash handles complex scene …
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model capable of producing 30-second native clips with up to 50 multimodal references. The model addresses key limitations in AI video workflows…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 now generates native 4K video but costs five times more than 720p, with a five-second clip at 4K costing about $2.50 versus $0.50 at 720p. Generation speed also slows signific…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, a video generation model that produces 30-second native 4K clips from up to 50 multimodal reference inputs. The company skipped four version …