Pictured right here is an AI-generated clip from Vidu’s web site. The software can create movies from textual content or picture prompts.
Evelyn Cheng | CNBC
BEIJING — Beijing-based Shengshu Know-how on Wednesday mentioned that its synthetic intelligence-powered text-to-video software Vidu will now have the ability to generate movies by combining pictures.
Vidu already permits customers worldwide to create 8-second clips primarily based on written prompts. Whereas OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — in February revealed that its AI mannequin Sora may generate one-minute movies from textual content, it has but to launch that publicly.
Vidu’s new AI characteristic can mix three photos — akin to a shirt, individual and moped — right into a video of the individual sporting the shirt and driving the moped via a scene, Shengshu mentioned.
Different platforms declare they’ll flip textual content or pictures into movies utilizing AI, however the high quality of output varies. The breakthrough that Shengshu claims is the power to take three distinctive pictures and combine them with visible consistency into an AI-generated video.
“Very early on we pinpointed [visual consistency] as the issue, and wished to unravel it effectively,” Fan Bao, chief know-how officer at Shengshu, mentioned in Mandarin, translated by CNBC.
Vidu launched in April and its skill to show two profile pictures into lifelike movies of individuals hugging went viral on TikTok.
The AI video generator is already creating wealth from advertisers, animators and different companies, Shengshu co-founder and CEO Jiayu Tang mentioned in Mandarin, in keeping with a CNBC translation. He mentioned month-to-month utilization charges per buyer can vary from 100,000 yuan to 1 million yuan ($13,871 to $138,711).
To handle copyright points, Tang mentioned an organization would possibly signal a cope with an artist that permits the AI to imitate the artist’s fashion of portray for an commercial. He mentioned he hadn’t seen important authorized circumstances round customers’ use of pictures.
Tang added that Vidu does not enable the general public to generate content material utilizing pictures of celebrities or “delicate” people. He mentioned the AI software additionally bans nudes and violent pictures. As for private pictures, Tang mentioned Vidu destroys the info in accordance with basic knowledge safety regulation — a worldwide benchmark.
Shengshu was based final yr with backers together with Baidu Ventures, Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group, Chinese language startup Zhipu AI, Qiming Enterprise Companions and Beijing metropolis, in keeping with PitchBook.
Tang mentioned Vidu’s AI runs off rented cloud servers in China and overseas.