ByteDance's New AI Video Model Can Make 30-Second Clips From a Single Prompt

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The Chinese tech company ByteDance revealed Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its artificial intelligence video generator model, during a conference in Beijing on Tuesday, according to a report from The Information.

AI video generation has come a long way since its debut, with each new version becoming increasingly better at producing realistic imagery. We're far from the first time we saw Will Smith eating spaghetti, which was horrifyingly bad.

Now, we need watermarking for these AI-generated videos to help identify deepfakes and other synthetic or false content.

The latest version of the video model allows users to provide up to 50 reference pieces, whether they're images, videos or audio files -- up from 12 in its predecessor, Seedance 2.0. Increasing the number of references will give you greater control over the video creation process. The model can generate 30-second, 4K videos with a single prompt.

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