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Prices Drop From Yuan to Fen: The Second Half of AI Video Begins
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The 'DeepSeek moment' for video models is less about low prices than about combining good quality with affordability. Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 and Shengshu Technology's Vidu Q4 Preview, both released around the National Day holiday, raised performance while cutting prices sharply, with Vidu starting at about 0.09 yuan per second. As generation success rates rose sharply, AI video has moved from experimentation toward a production tool.
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The article frames AI video's 'DeepSeek moment' as a shift from novelty to productivity, driven by both price cuts (Vidu starting at 0.09 CNY per second) and a jump in one-shot generation success rates from roughly 20% to around 90%. This signals that competition is moving from 'who can generate' to 'who can reliably deliver usable, cost-efficient output' at film and short-drama production scale. For the broader AI and tech industry, the implication is that value will accrue to players who optimize the Pareto frontier of quality, consistency, and cost rather than those competing on price alone.
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