Video & Image Generation
China's video & image generation sector, and every entry we have filed under it.
Chinese labs are among the strongest in video generation, with Kuaishou's Kling, Alibaba's Wan, MiniMax's Hailuo and ByteDance's Seedance competing directly with Western models. Around them a second tier of startups and university labs is releasing open-source models, interactive world models that double as video generators, and production tools aimed at short-video studios, game developers and advertisers, the industries that pay for generated pixels in China.
This page holds our entries on that ecosystem: open-source releases with weights, new versions of AI production workbenches, and research from Westlake, Alaya Lab and others that blurs the line between video generation and world modelling. Consumer app launches are noted when they come with a new model behind them.
Seventeen entries, newest first