Report: Chinese unicorn Zhipu AI to launch Sora rival as early as 2024 amid local race to catch up with OpenAI

The Beijing-based startup aims to release ‘high-quality text-to-video tools’ by this year the earliest, according to a Chinese media report. A recent assessment by Tsinghua University ranked Zhipu AI’s GLM-4 as one of the top two Chinese large language models. — SCMP

Zhipu AI, one of China’s top emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) startups, plans to release its answer to OpenAI’s text-to-video service Sora as early as this year, according to a Chinese media report.

Known formally as Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology, the unicorn started to develop its own text-to-video large language model (LLM) before OpenAI revealed video clips made by Sora in February, according to a report from TMTPost on Monday.