The Shanghai-based AI firm is one of China’s ‘AI tigers,’ with models that can process videos and images as well as text.
StepFun founder and CEO Jiang Daxin at the 'Step Up' ecosystem open day, February 21, 2025. Credit: StepFun
A roman statue comes to life in an ancient plaza, drawing a phone-ready crowd. A yellow car speeds down a racetrack suspended in clouds. A Chinese girl unfurls a banner reading “we will open source.”
Clips created with StepFun's 'Step-Video-T2V' AI text-to-video model. Credit: StepFun T2V
None of these videos were shot using cameras. Each, though, is the product of user-delivered prompts to Chinese artificial intelligence firm StepFun, which has made wa
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