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Chinese video AI models beat US rivals in visual quality, but lag on safeguards: HKU study

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Pro ranked first among 12 leading AI video-generation models with a visual quality score of 3.84 out of 5, ahead of Google DeepMind's Veo 3.1 at 3.47 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro at 3.27, in a study led by Zhenhui Jack Jiang, professor at the University of Hong Kong. The HKU researchers found that Chinese video AI models have surpassed leading US rivals in visual quality, but several fall behind on safety safeguards.

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Chinese AI video-generation models have surpassed leading US rivals in visual quality, but several fall behind in safety safeguards, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Pro took top spot in a ranking of 12 leading artificial intelligence video-generation models, scoring 3.84 out of 5 for visual quality. It outperformed Google DeepMind’s Veo 3.1, which scored 3.47, and OpenAI’s Sora 2 Pro, on 3.27, in a study led by Zhenhui Jack Jiang, professor of...

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