Will Smith Clarifies Video Authenticity, AI Model Sora Sparks Controversy


Competition in the AI video generation sector is intensifying. Singapore-based startup PixVerse has completed a $439 million C-round expansion financing, with its valuation exceeding $2 billion, signaling strong growth confidence. The company was co-founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu, former head of computer vision at ByteDance, and Jaden Xie, following a typical technology-driven development path.
Huawei Cloud partners with Shengshu Technology to launch the world's first video large model Vidu Q3 designed specifically for dramas. It focuses on integrated text-to-video and image-to-video generation. The model is tailored for enterprise marketing, film and television, and cultural and creative design. Its core advantage lies in strong narrative capabilities, enabling the efficient creation of coherent video content and accelerating the realization of creative ideas.
The Tencent Hua yuan team has open-sourced the video generation acceleration solution DisCa. By using learnable feature caching technology, it further compresses the inference cost on the distilled few-step model and improves the generation speed. The code and model weights of this solution are publicly available and have been accepted by CVPR 2026.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that shutting down Sora is not due to technical issues but a severe shortage of computing power, as the company must allocate limited chip resources to higher-priority projects, leading to internal competition for resources.....
Kuaishou's Kling AI leads globally in mobile video models, gaining prominence after OpenAI's Sora shutdown, with 7.8 million MAUs far surpassing Sora's 4.7 million.....