Image created with gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Wide static shot of young Chinese woman at cluttered desk with multiple computer screens showing social media feeds in cramped fluorescent office, fire horse visible through dirty window in concrete courtyard behind her, Jia Zhangke observational realism style, desaturated gray-blue palette, flat natural light, large white Chinese cinema poster text overlay reading ByteDance, documentary stillness, postindustrial decay, human-scale intimacy
BitDance is our lunar new year gift: a 14B parameters autoregressive image generation model – that is autoregressive in bits, not codebooks It’s fast given 14B parameters, try it: https://x.com/multimodalart/status/2023797260057014372
ByteDance releases BitDance: Scaling Autoregressive Generative Models with Binary Tokens “”We present BitDance, a scalable autoregressive (AR) image generator that predicts binary visual tokens instead of codebook indices. With high-entropy binary latents, BitDance lets each”” https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/2023707945104458097
A short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year (Subtitled) – YouTube
As promised, here’s the short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year and his take on AI filmmaking”” https://x.com/FrankYan2/status/2023257752017981446
ByteDance Seed https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seed2
Jia Zhangke is considered one of the greatest living directors… not an AI hack. He’s worth Googling. I’m overwhelmed by the critical acclaim he has, and his brazen “look at me make an AI video” flex. The X video has subtitles, and the YouTube one has commentary in the description from Vanity Fair.
Primer: Where to start with Jia Zhangke
https://www.avclub.com/primer-jia-zhangke
Ranking the Jia Zhangke Films – The Reel World
the first official AI movie is here and.. its wild China’s top director Jia Zhangke was so impressed by Seedance 2.0 that he made a film himself.. in just 3 days when asked if AI will replace filmmakers, he said cinema has always moved with tech. Digital cameras didn’t kill”” https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/2023449238114320514
Where to begin with Jia Zhangke | BFI
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-jia-zhangke
WORLD APART: THE FILMS OF JIA ZHANGKE
https://www.artforum.com/features/world-apart-the-films-of-jia-zhangke-171661/
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