China leverages short-video ecosystem, lower costs to carve out lead in AI video

SCMP TechAugust 29, 2026en

Chinese artificial intelligence companies are carving out a distinct lead over their US rivals in video generation, leveraging vast short-video ecosystems, looser copyright rules and aggressive pricing to dominate an arena where compute alone does not dictate success, analysts say. While US tech giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lead in frontier closed-source large language models (LLMs), Chinese firms are emerging as some of the most formidable competitors in the AI video...

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