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Public story · 2026-02-12 · source-backed
A multimodal AI video generation model producing ~20-second cinematic clips with synchronized audio, dialogue, ambient sound, and physics-aware motion in a single pass. Accepts 4 input modalities (text, up to 9 images, 3 videos, 3 audio files), generates 2K/1080p at 24fps. Elon Musk commented "This is happening too fast." ByteDance suspended the face-to-voice feature over deepfake concerns. Expanding to CapCut and other platforms by end of February.
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ByteDance partners with NVIDIA / Shared entity: February / What happened next
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ByteDance released OpenViking / Shared entity: ByteDance / What happened next
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