A Chinese company based in Shanghai, MiniMax, launched a new AI video generation model with high resolution and frame rate.
"It can perform quite well when presenting grand scenes, like movie-like videos. Genres like animations and cartoons can also be presented faithfully," said a MiniMax exhibitor.
The model is also able to train mass data more efficiently in unit time, greatly enhancing the model's practicality and responsiveness.
In the future, the company will continue innovating model algorithm as well as facilitating the implementation of large models in the industry.
"Shanghai has a very good application environment and foundation. Next, we plan to use large model technology to empower human's imagination and content creation by employing the ability to combine music and video and collaborating with more partners in the sector," said Peng Tao, vice president of MiniMax.
At the beginning of 2024, foreign tech company OpenAI developed text-to-video model "Sora". Later, many enterprises in China also started to explore this multiple large model arena.
Statistics show that so far, 26 large model services have been registered and put online across China, with 20 of them coming from Shanghai.
Chinese company in Shanghai launches new AI video generation model
The Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, to be held by China Media Group (CMG), will provide a stunning visual feast through the ingenious combination of state-of-the-art technologies and picturesque landscape scenery, aiming to impress the audience via delicate stage designs in romantic and aesthetic settings.
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Tuesday this year. CMG has announced that the gala is going to take place in Shenyang City, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.
The stage for the upcoming gala has been set on the lakeside of Dingxiang Lake in Shenyang City as the event is aimed to present an impressive "beautiful, sincere, lyrical, and romantic" artistic vision.
Nestled against the lake, the circular stage featuring a 360-degree panorama highlights the integration of art and modern technologies.
The biggest highlight and innovation of the stage design is a movable "full moon". With a diameter of 12 meters, the moon weighing 10 tons sits on the main stage and casts light on the rippling water.
"The use of water is a feature of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. We hope that the mutual reflections of the images will evoke longing for family reunion. These buildings with styles of Ming and Qing dynasties, the typical and simple Chinese moon gate, we hope that through graphics, modeling, physical scenery set and the overall structural setting of the stage, we can combine Chinese aesthetics with modernity and infuse the Chinese aesthetics in the Mid-Autumn Festival stage creation, so as to present them to Chinese people around the world," said Wang Chen, director of stage art of the gala.
"When I got here and saw it today, I thought the stage setting is so beautiful. The big moon delivers an artistic conception. And there is a pavilion by the water. When a performer stands inside and sing, it looks like a beautiful painting. This time I will sing a very beautiful song, and I'll also dance in my performance. I hope people will like it," said Jin Chen, a performer.
In addition to the theme of family reunion, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Gala also incorporates patriotism, as well as precious video clips showcasing the development of the country.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a significant traditional Chinese festival celebrated on the night when the moon reaches its fullest and brightest on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.
During the festival, family members would come together, share mooncakes while admiring the moon, and light up lanterns to enjoy the happiness of family reunion.
CMG unveils moon-shaped, dreamlike stage of Mid-Autumn Festival Gala
