This Week’s AI Product Picks | From Keling to Popi and OiiOii – The AI Film Showdown
The Most Crowded Track: Where the Next Platform-Level AI Product Will Emerge First
Overview
This week’s AI spotlight is on what many creatives once saw as their lifelong adversary — AI video generation tools.
In 2024, the conversation in AI video generation has shifted from "Can it be generated?" to "Can it be delivered at scale?". The main battleground is no longer eye-catching demos, but engineering reliability and workflow integration.
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From Demos to Production Pipelines
To truly compete, AI video generation tools must:
- Ensure multi-shot consistency
- Provide precise camera control syntax
- Enable reusable characters across projects
- Integrate audio & video pipelines into a single output
- Move beyond one-off cinematic reels to sustained production capabilities
Industry leaders already set benchmarks:
- OpenAI Sora: Makes reusable characters and shot stitching standard.
- Google Veo: Offers tiered services for speed vs. quality to match computing budgets.
> Demo is just the start — production capacity is the real story.
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Four-Quadrant Classification
We map AI video tools by:
- Horizontal: Model-driven vs. Tool/Workflow-driven
- Vertical: General-purpose vs. Vertical-specific
Products from tech giants and startups compete in different quadrants.
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Q1: General × Model-Driven
Focuses on strong foundational models, wrapped with product layers.
Kuaishou | Kling
- Launch: June 2024
- Capabilities: 2-min videos, 1080p @ 30fps, multiple aspect ratios
- Tech Path:
- Large-scale datasets (Koala-36M) + Scaling Law strategy
- Owl-1 general world model: “state–observation–action” learning
- Maintains motion, cinematography, physical realism at scale
- Role: Integrated into Kuaishou ecosystem for short/long content generation
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Tencent | Hunyuan
- Foundation: Hunyuan large model framework
- Product: HunyuanVideo — text-to-video for public & API use
- Open Source: Code + weights on GitHub & HF (~13B params)
- Focus: Strong in Chinese contexts, cinematic & physical consistency
- Use Cases: Short video platforms, advertising, gaming, film production
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Alibaba | Tongyi Wanxiang
(Detailed below under separate heading)
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Q2: General × Tool / Workflow-Driven
Broad use cases with an emphasis on integrated workflows rather than raw model strength.
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Tongyi Wanxiang
Part of Alibaba’s Tongyi AI ecosystem. Evolved from text-to-image into:
- Text-to-video
- Image-to-video
- Image editing
Available via Bailian platform API.
Model Iteration
- Versions Wan2.1 → Wan2.2
- MoE Architecture:
- High-noise experts manage layout → Low-noise experts handle details
- Cuts inference compute cost ~50%
- High-compression 3D VAE:
- Encodes spatiotemporal info into compact latent
- 5s 720p video in minutes on consumer GPUs
Unique Feature
Cinematic Aesthetics Control: descriptors for light, color, composition, lens mood bring cinematography language directly into generation.
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LTX Video
By Lightricks (Facetune). Built on open-source LTX-Video / LTX-2.
- Architecture: Latent space video diffusion based on DiT
- Performance: 5s 768×512 video in ~2s on H100 GPU
- Product: LTX Studio — AI movie studio from text/script → scenes → timeline editing
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Stable Video Diffusion (SVD)
By Stability AI (November 2023).
- Modes: SVD (~14 frames), SVD-XT (~25 frames)
- Strengths: Self-hostable, controllable, lightweight integration
- Limitations: No audio, limited duration, character continuity requires editing
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Integrated Publishing Example: AiToEarn
Platforms like AiToEarn官网 offer model ranking, cross-platform publishing, analytics — enabling creators to push AI content to Douyin, Kwai, WeChat, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, YouTube, Instagram, X, etc., with monetization workflows.
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Q3: Vertical × Model-Driven
Specialized in specific styles or content types.
MiniMax | Hailuo
Short clips (3–10s), strong prompt adherence, expressive motion.
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Vidu by Shengshu
High consistency in 2D animation, reusable characters, API integration.
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Daydream AI
Strong anime style, adapted for web novel/comic video production.
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PixVerse
Consumer-facing viral effects: AI Kiss, character transformations.
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Q4: Vertical × Application/Tool-Driven
Selling complete creative/industry workflows.
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TapNow
AI brand workbench for e-commerce/ads, node-based workflow.
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MovieFlow
Automated long-form storytelling; multi-min continuous videos.
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OiiOii AI
Turns a single photo into animated + music video, beat-synced.
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popi.art
Automated animation + virtual IP incubation.
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Pika
Ultra-fast short-form video generation; keyframe transitions, community templates.
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AIPAI
Unified interface, multi-model routing (Kling, Hailuo, Vidu, Sora, Veo, PixVerse, Runway).
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Product Strategy Summary
- Model-Centric Path:
- Build stable lower-layer models; integrate physics + time + aesthetics.
- Workflow-Centric Path:
- Understand real production pain points; abstract them into usable toolchains.
- Hybrid/Open Approach:
- Use open-source & local deployment for compute, IP, and data security control.
These products already operate in real production environments, positioning them to become next-gen platform products.
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Cross-Platform Monetization Infrastructure
For high-frequency creators, AiToEarn integrates AI content generation, publishing to major platforms, analytics, and ranking — turning creativity into revenue quickly.
📄 Documentation | 📊 Model Rankings | 🔥 Trending Content
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Do you want me to add a comparison table for Tongyi Wanxiang, LTX Video, and SVD — summarizing strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases? It will make this guide even easier to scan.
