How China May Be Poised To Win The AI Video Generation Race

My recent trip to Beijing made me realise that the six years I spent during and after the pandemic living in a small village in Hong Kong, while comfortable, was the lifestyle equivalent of living under a rock. This past week of meeting tech companies in Beijing was the equivalent of being dragged out from underneath that rock and thrust into the sunlight, kicking and screaming. And sunlight is the apposite word here because, although Chinese indie films give us the impression that China is always overcast with a depressing gloom, the country does in fact have a lot of sunlight. And it’s that sunlight that may help China pull ahead in the AI video generation race.

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