Today, SenseTime officially launched its "Product Launch Week," with Seko 2.0—a tool highly anticipated by numerous creators of short dramas and comic dramas—taking center stage.

This tool, which claims to be the industry's first integrated creative and production platform for generating multi-episode content, is striving to turn the notion of a "one-person crew" into a practical reality.

Since its debut in July 2025, Seko 2.0 has attracted over 100,000 users in just two months and amassed more than 200,000 creators within half a year. Notably, short drama and comic drama creators make up a significant 50%, forming a highly focused vertical community.

According to media reports, the new Seko 2.0 has enhanced the following features:

A brand-new UI upgrade, focusing on visual appeal and an immersive creative experience;

Multi-episode generation capability, enabling continuous script creation for up to 100 episodes with extended context management;

Agent intelligent scheduling, allowing flexible connections between characters, scenes, and props across different episodes, with character appearances adapting seamlessly to scene changes.

In the realm of AIGC video, sustained creation has long posed a challenge. Most tools available can only generate single-episode shorts or fragmented clips.

For creators aiming to produce series, this has meant navigating a complex workflow, akin to assembling a puzzle, by switching between multiple software applications.

The core upgrade of Seko 2.0 lies in its multi-episode generation capability, which supports coherent script creation for up to 100 episodes.

This accomplishment is supported by two key technological breakthroughs: SekoIDX and SekoTalk.

SekoIDX technology ensures consistent character depiction across different episodes and shots by introducing innovative model training methods. This allows characters to naturally display a wide range of expressions and postures without appearing stiff or "copy-pasted."

Meanwhile, SekoTalk stands as the industry's first solution enabling precise lip-syncing for more than two individuals, ensuring natural synchronization of audio and video, whether in casual conversations or heated debates.

These technological advances directly result in increased productivity. According to official sources, compared to traditional production workflows, Seko 2.0 can reduce the production cycle of comic dramas by 80% to 90%. This means a 50-episode work that previously took a team three months to complete can now be produced in days with the help of AI.

However, technological prowess alone does not ensure widespread adoption, as high costs often present another hurdle for ordinary creators. AI-generated video, especially for multi-episode creation, demands massive computational resources.

Generating a 5-second video clip may require nearly 100,000 tokens; generating 10 to 20 shots simultaneously could escalate the total demand to millions.

To free creativity from cost constraints, SenseTime has implemented its Phased DMD distillation technology at the software level. Through an elegant framework of collaborative model division, overall efficiency is significantly boosted without incurring additional computational overhead.

More notably, hardware-level domestic adaptation has been achieved. SenseTime's open-source real-time video generation inference framework, LightX2V, has been adapted for domestic AI chips such as Cambrian and Moore Threads.

SenseTime's data indicates that on international mainstream chip platforms, 1 second of computation can generate 1.25 seconds of video; on adapted domestic chip platforms, 1 second of computation can also generate over 1 second of video, with comparable performance.

The transformation brought about by Seko 2.0 extends beyond tool functionality, beginning to reshape the production and ecosystem landscape of film and television content.

This reshaping follows an intriguing path of "bottom-up" and "top-down" parallelism. A notable example is the live-action short drama "Wan Xin Ji," which successfully topped the Douyin AI Short Drama Chart. Additionally, works like "I Built an End-of-the-World Fortress on the Mountaintop" and "Hidden God Chronicles" have garnered widespread attention, demonstrating the potential of AI tools to foster popular content.

In the "top-down" professional sphere, Seko's influence has extended into the core circles of traditional film and television production. SenseTime has forged a strategic partnership with leading film enterprise Changjiang Film Group.

The two entities plan to jointly launch a series of short dramas based on Jingchu culture next year, with an even more ambitious goal of co-incubating theatrical-grade AIGC films, driving deep integration of AI tools into professional film production workflows.

Xu Li, Chairman and CEO of SenseTime, referenced a viewpoint from "The Innovator's Dilemma," noting that disruptive technologies often achieve commercialization first in peripheral or emerging markets. AIGC, with its unparalleled efficiency and cost-effectiveness, empowers creators to unleash their imagination.

He believes that as technological capabilities evolve, the quality of AI-generated content will steadily progress toward excellence, ultimately creating a new content ecosystem where both highbrow and popular, diverse forms coexist harmoniously.

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