This is still about a year and a half behind Seedance 2.0/ Seedance 2.5

But it represents a coming price pressure that will face the leading foundation models. Open source will prevent runaway costs.

Moreover, it prevents the hair-trigger platform safety checkers from shutting down creative work. Video models are notoriously bad at shutting down a huge number of requests.

Creatives will prefer to work on cloud or private GPU clusters. Waiting 10 minutes for a few seconds of 480p is unacceptable. Hobbyists will have fun, but most actual production work is happening in the cloud.

Artist's time is worth money, and they like to spin up dozens of concurrent generations at a time to more quickly explore the generation state space and make progress on completing work.

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