Video AI Wars: How Chinese Labs Are Winning The Race OpenAI Abandoned

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Chinese AI labs are racing ahead in video generation while OpenAI has largely stepped back from the competition. ByteDance's Seedance, Alibaba's Wan and Happy Horse, Kuaishou's Kling, MiniMax's Hailuo AI, and Tencent's Hunyuan represent a formidable wave of models that are advancing rapidly in converting text to video. The shift reflects both the technical momentum of Chinese companies and OpenAI's apparent pivot away from this particular frontier, a strategic choice that leaves American competitors scrambling to catch up in a capability that could reshape content creation.