Baidu launches AI video generator, overhauls search features

China’s Baidu on Wednesday launched an AI-driven video generator for businesses as well as a major upgrade to its search engine.

The image-to-video model, called MuseSteamer, is capable of generating videos up to 10 seconds long and comes in three versions – Turbo, Pro and Lite.

Over the past year, artificial intelligence heavyweights like OpenAI and big global tech companies have been expanding beyond chatbots to text-to-video or image-to-video generators. In China, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba have also launched models.

While many rival products,…