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China Fuels Rush to Turn AI Video Into an Industry

Chinese cities are competing to host AI filmmakers with rent waivers, living allowances and subsidised compute, treating AI video like EVs and solar. We map the subsidies, show how production costs fell from 5,000 yuan a minute to a few hundred, cover the platforms betting on it and the new rules, and explain what the overcapacity signs mean for businesses that buy video.

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Virse Review: The AI Design Canvas That Encodes Your Taste Across 50+ Models

Virse calls itself a personalized creative engine — an AI-native design canvas that puts more than fifty image and video models (FLUX 2 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 and more) into one infinite workspace and then learns what you find beautiful. This review examines the node-based canvas, the taste-encoding aesthetic memory system, the credit-based pricing from a free 200-credit tier to $399 Max plans, the enterprise Large Aesthetic Memory Model, and how the aggregated canvas compares with direct single-model subscriptions — including the unusual fact that credits get more expensive per dollar as the plans get bigger.

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Paying Artists to Embrace AI: Inside Pippa’s Royalty Model

Text-to-video startup Pippa pays illustrators $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video, plus a 5% share of subscription revenue. It is the clearest test yet of whether compensation alone can bring artists over to generative AI, or whether consent, credit and stylistic control were always the bigger obstacles.

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