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While OpenAI keeps teasing Sora after months of delays, Tencent quietly dropped a model that is already showing comparable results to existing top-tier video generators.
Tencent has unveiled Hunyuan Video, a free and open-source AI video generator, strategically timed during OpenAI’s 12-day announcement campaign, which is widely anticipated to include the debut of Sora, its highly anticipated video tool.
“We present Hunyuan Video, a novel open-source video foundation model that exhibits performance in video generation that is comparable to, if not superior to, leading closed-source models,” Tencent said in its official announcement.
The Shenzhen, China-based tech giant claims its model “outperforms” those of Runway Gen-3, Luma 1.6, and “three top-performing Chinese video generative models” based on professional human evaluation results.
The timing couldn’t be more apt.
Before its video generator—somewhere between the SDXL and Flux eras of open-source image generators— Tencent released an image generator with a similar name.
HunyuanDit provided excellent results and improved understanding of bilingual text, but it was not widely adopted. The family was completed with a group of larg…
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