{"id":122685,"date":"2025-11-05T06:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122685\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:31:12","slug":"tencent-veteran-raises-50-million-plans-to-launch-rival-to-openai-sora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122685\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent Veteran Raises $50 Million, Plans to Launch Rival to OpenAI Sora"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scientist who oversaw development of Tencent Holdings Ltd.<\/a>\u2019s flagship AI model has raised $50 million with a startup planning to release a rival to OpenAI\u2019s Sora, the latest high-profile entry in one of the more profitable of artificial intelligence spheres.<\/p>\n

Liu Wei<\/a>\u2019s Video Rebirth completed a seed round of funding from investors including Qiming Venture Partners <\/a>and South Korean game maker Actoz Soft Co.<\/a>, according to a company statement. Liu founded the Singapore-based outfit in October last year and aims to make video creation as intuitive as talking to a chatbot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scientist who oversaw development of Tencent Holdings Ltd.\u2019s flagship AI model has raised $50 million with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,21199,218,219,114,43935,61,60,72940,1673,9458,37485,1884,80,58729],"class_list":["post-122685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-douyin-co-ltd","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kuaishou-technology","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-singapore","tag-sora","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-tencent-holdings-ltd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}