The FT asked workers in animation, advertising and real estate to test rival AI systems that create short clips

Washed Out’s last album was 2020’s Purple Noon. Today, the chillwave polymath is announcing its follow-up, Notes From A Quiet Life, and releasing the lead single, “The Hardest Part,” which comes with a video made with the text-to-video AI tool Sora.

The world’s first commissioned music video created entirely through OpenAI’s Sora, ‘The Hardest Part,’ directed by Paul Trillo, is now out. "The Hardest Part" – directed by @paultrillo – out now. https://t.co/NlbyCvf5iO The first commissioned music video created entirely through @OpenAI 's Sora. pic.twitter.com/Gz44TdU7Bc

Chinese AI startup Shengshu Technology, in partnership with Tsinghua University, unveiled the country’s latest text-to-video model Vidu last weekend,

Chinese startup Shengshu Technology in collaboration with Tsinghua University unveiled Vidu, a text-to-video generator.

Vidu is launched by Beijing-based start-up Shengshu Technology together with Tsinghua University The firm has released several demo clips produced by Vidu, which can generate 1080p videos as long as 16 seconds China has come up with its own text-to-video artificial-intelligence (AI) tool similar to OpenAI's Sora,

Shengshu-AI claims its Vidu software can develop high-quality videos lasting up to 16 seconds, far surpassing previous Chinese text-to-video models.