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Chinese unicorn Zhipu AI to launch Sora rival as early as 2024 amid local race to catch up with OpenAI: report

  • The Beijing-based start-up aims to release ‘high-quality text-to-video tools’ by this year the earliest, according to a Chinese media report
  • A recent assessment by Tsinghua University ranked Zhipu AI’s GLM-4 as one of the top two Chinese large language models

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Zhipu AI, one of China’s top emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups, plans to release its answer to OpenAI’s text-to-video service Sora as early as this year, according to a Chinese media report.
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Known formally as Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology, the unicorn started to develop its own text-to-video large language model (LLM) before OpenAI revealed video clips made by Sora in February, according to a report from TMTPost on Monday.

Zhipu AI is expecting an explosion of LLMs capable of turning text prompts into videos this year because of growing demands from a diverse array of customers with needs ranging from film to video game production, the report said, citing the company.

The Beijing-based start-up aims to release “high-quality text-to-video tools” this year at the earliest, according to the report.

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Zhipu AI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

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