AI vs The Big Screen

In our sixth episode, reporters Eliot Chen, Rachel Cheung, and Savannah Billman discuss the latest breakthroughs in Bytedance’s AI video generation tool, Seedance 2.0. The extremely lifelike videos went viral around the world, but also triggered existential questions for the film industry and the Chinese startups looking to make a profit from AI cinema. We also explore why AI diffusion in China is so low despite the high technical capabilities of domestically developed models and tools.

Coming up this week, we have an extract from our latest Q&A with the economist Eswar Prasad about his new book, The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order is Spiraling into Disorder, and a guide to the other articles you can read in this week's edition, published every Sunday evening EST at thewirechina.com

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