{"id":118808,"date":"2025-11-05T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118808\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:23:11","slug":"tencent-veteran-raises-50-million-plans-to-launch-rival-to-openai-sora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118808\/","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":118809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,16544,363,364,607,55056,83994,111,139,5742,69,9739,45416,1046,145,83993],"class_list":{"0":"post-118808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-douyin-co-ltd","14":"tag-kuaishou-technology","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nvidia-corp","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-singapore","20":"tag-sora","21":"tag-startups","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-tencent-holdings-ltd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}