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   AI-generated short dramas squeeze Hengdian's live-action actors

   The number of productions shooting at Hengdian World Studios has fallen sharply — the site said in August 2025 that it hosted more than 150 short-drama crews a day, while in May 2026 it reported only 59 crews in one week — and several short-drama actors say they can no longer find work, with some leads paid as little as 150 yuan a day. A DataEye report puts China's AI-generated short-drama (manju) market at 16.8 billion yuan in 2025, 22 billion yuan in January–May 2026 and a projected 40 billion yuan for the full year, with AI-realistic human-style shows accounting for 70% of the category in Q2 2026. A Zhongtai Securities note says AI short-drama costs fell another 80–90% in the first half of 2026 versus 2025, at 200–300 yuan per minute for 2D/3D and 800–1,000 yuan for photorealistic AI, versus 8,000–12,000 yuan for live-action.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 5
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   Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra push into video, testing video models' moats

   An industry analysis describes two ways general-purpose models are entering AI video from upstream: Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (said to have launched Sept 22) writes front-end code — SVG, Canvas, Three.js, Remotion — renders frames and composites them with FFmpeg, spawning a creator-dubbed "Vibe Video" style; OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra (said to have launched Sept 3) acts as director-producer inside Blender, Unreal Engine and DaVinci Resolve, handling storyboards, previsualisation and rough cuts before handing rendering to video models such as Seedance. The piece says ByteDance's Jianying Hub, MiniMax Design and Kuaishou's Kling AI 4.0 and ikli are meanwhile pushing deeper into end-to-end creation workflows to defend their positions. View counts, API costs and an "80%-90% of AGI" claim in the article come from creators and bloggers and are unverified.

   创业邦 科技 · 🔥 7
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   Post-90s leaders take over China's LLM race: Qwen, MiMo, Tencent, ByteDance

   In September 2026 Alibaba confirmed Liu Dayiheng (b. 1993) as head of the ATH group's TokenFoundry Qwen large-language-model project ahead of its Yunqi conference, and Chen Yusen (b. 1992) appeared as an Alibaba group vice president and CEO of the Qwen Office unit. The same day Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.6 series and promoted Luo Fuli (b. 1995) to level 22, the top of Xiaomi's job ladder; her MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored 46 on Artificial Analysis's composite intelligence index, which the article says makes it the top open-weight model on that list. It also describes Zhou Chang running ByteDance's Seedream, Seedance and world-model work and Yao Shunyu heading both AI Infra and the LLM department at Tencent since December 2025, arguing the job handover is complete while capability, commercialization and cost tests are only beginning.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 5

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