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Chinese video AI models beat US rivals in visual quality, but lag on safeguards: HKU study

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Monday, October 26, 2026 at 8:00 AM · 1 min read
Chinese video AI models beat US rivals in visual quality, but lag on safeguards: HKU study — South China Morning Post, Shanghai Technology news
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Chinese AI video-generation models have surpassed leading US rivals in visual quality, but several fall behind in safety safeguards, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 Pro took top spot in a ranking of 12 leading artificial intelligence video-generation models, scoring 3.84 out of 5 for visual quality. It outperformed Google DeepMind’s Veo 3.1, which scored 3.47, and OpenAI’s Sora 2 Pro, on 3.27, in a study led by Zhenhui Jack Jiang, professor of...

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