AI Video Generation Splinters: Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Midjourney v8.1, and India's Varya All Ship in the Same Week

The AI video generation market is fragmenting rapidly, with new models from China, India, and the U.S. all arriving within days of each other.

Dreamina's Seedance 2.0 mini, Kling 3.0's image-to-video pipeline, Midjourney v8.1 workflows, Hailou AI's local desktop workstation, and India's Varya — billed as an indigenous AI video model — all shipped or were announced in the same window, as compiled by @TraffAlex.

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