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Kuaishou's AI video product, reported to have raised nearly $3B at an $18B valuation with Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu backing.
State broadcaster CCTV says the average minute of AI short drama in China fell from about 5,000 yuan to a few hundred in the first half of 2026. Local governments pay part of the compute and rent behind it, so buyers cannot yet tell the lasting saving from the subsidy.
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Google charges $0.05 a second, or $3 a minute, for Veo 3.1 Lite video and made Vids generation free on the day OpenAI's Sora API shut down. Teams losing Sora can budget against that rate. Google has not published the free tier's allowance, and Decrypt's test of it produced only 720p.
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Dantiva's video generation is three Google model calls. The schedule went to accounts, a reserve-capture-refund token ledger, support tooling, and making one wallet work behind three different sign-ins.
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Next.js dispatches Server Actions one at a time per client connection, so open-higgsfield collapses every in-flight generation poll into a single 4,000 ms tick and fans the status calls out on the server with Promise.all.
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Goldman Sachs and Intel are funding a company whose founder says broadcast-quality video fell from $100,000 to $500 a minute. The enterprise revenue mix is the part to read closely.
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