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OpenAI Sora

modelactiveprovisionalopenai-sora-961206bc·2 events·first seen 16d ago

Aliases: OpenAI Sora, OpenAI Sora 2 Pro

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7The Batch·15d ago·source ↗

Grok Imagine 1.0 Sharply Cuts Costs for High-Quality Video Generation

xAI launched Grok Imagine 1.0, a text-and-image-to-video model that topped the Artificial Analysis Video Arena leaderboard in both text-to-video and image-to-video categories at launch. The model generates up to 15-second clips with audio at $4.20 per minute of output, significantly undercutting Google Veo 3.1 ($12/min) and OpenAI Sora 2 Pro ($30/min). It is integrated with the X social network, enabling direct generation and sharing, though xAI disclosed no technical details about the model's architecture. The launch highlights continued rapid cost compression in video generation, with a seven-fold price gap between Grok Imagine 1.0 and Sora 2 Pro.

6The Batch·16d ago·source ↗

ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.0 Video Generation Model Globally via CapCut

ByteDance has deployed Seedance 2.0, a multimodal video generation model, to hundreds of millions of CapCut users across multiple global regions. The model supports text, image, audio, and video inputs with synchronized audio-video output, lip-synced dialogue, and camera control via prompts. It ranks within the top two on Arena AI and Artificial Analysis video leaderboards, and is available via API at $0.30 per second of output. The issue also features Andrew Ng's editorial arguing against the 'AI jobpocalypse' narrative, attributing it to incentive structures at labs and companies.