Chinese language GenAI startup AIsphere, aiming to be as robust as Sora technically inside six months, introduced on Monday that it has raised RMB 100 million ($13.9 million) in a Form A1 financing spherical led by way of Shenzhen-based Fortune Challenge Capital. In step with AIsphere’s announcement on its WeChat account, the corporate, which is set to show one presen used in April, has introduced a text-to-video fashion for the Chinese language marketplace on Monday, two months following its internationally-faced fashion PixVerse rolled out. PixVerse, which the corporate claimed is now “the largest China-grown GenAI product worldwide” with the most important collection of customers, is in a position to generate video lengths of about a couple of seconds. Native outlet Caixin cited the statistical web page Similarweb, announcing the software surpassed 1,000,000 visits in February. Founder Wang Changhu prior to now served as the top of ByteDance’s AI Lab, the place he supported the construction and construction of widely-used video apps Douyin and TikTok “from zero to one,” the announcement mentioned. [AIsphere, in Chinese]