Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps Financial Times 2026-05-18 Eleanor Olcott ByteDance, Chinese AI Related Coverage Kuaishou Weighs Kling AI Spinoff at $20 Billion Valuation Implicator.ai · Marcus Schuler Chinese AI groups pull ahead of US rivals in video generation race Crypto Briefing I recall being impressed by initial previews of OpenAI's Sora video model and even more when the app launched. — ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 dropped and blew it away. Nothing from American AI labs now comes close to the Gen AI video models from Chinese labs. — It's as if American labs have given up. … @carnage4life@mas.to · Dare Obasanjo Discussion @taumuyi Tau-Mu Yi on bluesky This is #True but also it seems that Chinese consumers are waaay more “into” AI #vids than non-Chinese consumers [embedded post]