Tencent launches its answer to OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool

HunyuanVideo is available for free to enterprise and individual users

Iris Dengin Shenzhen
Tencent has launched HunyuanVideo, a text-to-video generation tool. Photo: Screenshot
Chinese video gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings has launched a text-to-video generation tool based on its Hunyuan artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model, joining an intensifying race among domestic rivals to challenge US peers in the field.

HunyuanVideo has been made available for free to enterprise and individual users, the company announced on Tuesday. With over 13 billion parameters – a measure of variables present in an AI system during training – HunyuanVideo is the world’s largest open-source model for video generation, the company said.

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