For business
Seedance earns half its revenue overseas
36Kr: overseas revenue at Seedance reached 50% and grew almost fivefold in six months. The MPA deal, the Disney and TikTok pilot, and why industries buy now.
Pika H3 Flex in FastVideo: 7x faster on 4 bits
Hao AI Lab ran Pika H3 Flex in the open FastVideo engine: 2.4x faster on BF16, 7x on four GPUs, and five seconds of 480p in 5.8 seconds on 4-bit weights.
Kandinsky S2V 1.0: an open talking avatar from one photo
Kandinsky S2V 1.0 takes one frame, a voice track and a prompt, and moves the whole body to the speech. Architecture, H100 timings and who this fits.
AI video news: Wan 3.0 takes first place
The Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard on November 4: Wan 3.0 on top, plus TaoMate-HD for live streams, Archon from Selendis and Creator Mode.
Video models
Open and local
LLMs and agents
Sound and editing
Research
Vidu S2-Avatar: an AI avatar you can actually talk to
Vidu S2-Avatar went live on Reactor on November 2. A character from one photo, live voice, interruption, API access, and what the launch note leaves out.
How to make a fairy tale cartoon with AI, step by step
A folk tale is the best first project for an AI model: short plot, repeating scenes. The working order, character references and what is safe to use.
OpusClip 4.0 takes raw footage and edits the whole video
OpusClip 4.0 takes raw takes and cuts the video itself: speech cleanup, captions, B-roll, three formats and saved recipes. Where it saves hours.
Generation
Avatars and voice
Editing and processing
Distribution and formats
More news
Seedance earns half its revenue overseas
36Kr: overseas revenue at Seedance reached 50% and grew almost fivefold in six months. The MPA deal, the Disney and TikTok pilot, and why industries buy now.
AI characters in series: fruit, cats and a vegetable family
A tracker count from November 4: six formats built on one recurring character, from fruit to AI models as heroes, and what a brand can borrow from them.
A 1,000-episode AI series, made by six people
How a team of six turned a web novel into a thousand-episode AI series in two months, what compute cost and what a brand can borrow from the method.
Ads and marketplaces
Mass posting and channels
Pricing and ordering
Market and law
An AI feature film flopped, and the script is to blame
Sanxingdui earned 1.42 million yuan against a production budget in the tens of millions. Here is the box office math, and where AI video already pays for itself.
Commissioning animation: three techniques, and what each one costs to change
Cutout, rigging and 3D produce different results and different bills when a client asks for a change. How to pick a technique, why twelve frames per second is normal, and what to ask a studio.
Spotting AI video: why I stopped trusting a detector's first number
How to check whether a video is AI generated: six visual signals, Content Credentials and C2PA, SynthID watermarks, why detectors fail on compressed clips, and a ten-minute order of checks.
