# AI content
Latest news and articles about AI content
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China’s 2026 Spring Festival: Films, Long Series and AI-Driven Short Dramas Square Off for Holiday Audiences
China’s nine-day 2026 Spring Festival has prompted a crowded content race among films, long TV dramas and short-form series, with early figures showing presale box office roughly half last year’s pace and ticket prices falling. While traditional tentpole films still lead presales, platforms are aggressively promoting AI-assisted short dramas and conservative co-financing models are reshaping risk allocation across the industry.
ByteDance’s Seedream 5.0 Lite Adds Live Web Retrieval to Image Generation — A Step Toward More Up‑to‑Date, Reasoning‑Capable Multimodal AI
ByteDance’s Volcano Engine has launched Seedream 5.0 Lite, a lightweight image‑generation model that for the first time supports real‑time web retrieval and chain‑of‑thought reasoning. Available now on the JiMeng creative platform and due for API rollout later in February, the release tightens the gap between static generative systems and live, context‑aware content creation while raising new questions about provenance, copyright and content safety.