ShengShu Technology
Headquarters
Beijing, ChinaFounded
2023CEO / Founder
Yan BoEmployees
51-200Funding
Series B — $878MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
6.8/10Website
vidu.com/
Profile updated
About ShengShu Technology
ShengShu Technology (生数科技) is an artificial intelligence company founded in March 2023 in Beijing, China, focused on multimodal generative AI models. The company was formed through a collaboration between researchers from Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China, drawing on academic work in diffusion models and transformer-based generative architectures.
The company's primary product, Vidu, is an AI video generation platform that converts text prompts and reference images into video clips. Vidu is built on a proprietary architecture called U-ViT, which combines diffusion models with vision transformers. The platform competes with other text-to-video generation tools such as Runway, Pika, and Kling, targeting use cases in content creation, advertising, and entertainment production.
ShengShu Technology has raised funding from Chinese venture investors and technology firms, including participation reported from Alibaba and other institutional backers, though exact deal terms have not been fully disclosed in public filings. The company has released successive versions of Vidu with expanded capabilities, including longer video generation and improved character and scene consistency.
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Financials
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AI video and image creation from text, images, and references
Competitive Landscape
Who ShengShu Technology competes with, and how they differ.
The closest direct rival: a Chinese video foundation model sold to the same advertising, short-drama and film customers, but distributed off Kuaishou's own short-video platform and ad ecosystem rather than as an independent vendor. Kling is also the segment's revenue benchmark, reporting more than RMB 850 million in Q2 2026 alone against Vidu's disclosed ARR of over $20 million.
Competes through Seedance and Jimeng AI, bundling video generation into CapCut and Douyin distribution instead of selling model access as the product. Its advantage is owned traffic and cloud capacity; ShengShu's pitch against it is vendor neutrality for customers who do not want to be tied to a content platform.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewedThe nearest independent Chinese peer — a same-generation text- and image-to-video startup (AIsphere) targeting creators and overseas consumer apps. It leans consumer-app growth and template-driven effects, where Vidu pushes reference-to-video consistency and enterprise/API delivery into film, ad and game pipelines.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
A broader Chinese multimodal foundation-model company: Hailuo AI is one product line beside its LLM and voice models, and it listed in Hong Kong in January 2026. ShengShu is the narrower bet — video and world models only — which is also its argument for depth in generation quality and controllability.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
The US incumbent in generative video, selling Gen-series models with an in-browser editing suite and studio partnerships at Western subscription price points. Vidu competes mainly on generation cost and speed, and on reference-based character/scene consistency for serialised content.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
A US video foundation-model rival (Dream Machine / Ray) grown out of 3D and neural-reconstruction research, sold via consumer subscriptions and an API. Overlap is direct on text- and image-to-video; Luma has no comparable presence in Chinese film, short-drama and advertising production workflows.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in ShengShu Technology's history, with sources.
- Milestone
Exploring a Hong Kong IPO of more than $500 million
Bloomberg reported that ShengShu is working with China International Capital Corp. and Citic Securities on a Hong Kong listing that could raise over $500 million, potentially in 2027. The company and both banks declined to comment.
finance.yahoo.com - Funding
Series B+ — US$500 million
ShengShu closed a $500 million (about RMB 3.4 billion) B+ round, reported as the largest single financing to date in China's general world model segment; the company said cumulative funding then exceeded RMB 5 billion.
news.qq.com - Launch
Vidu S1 real-time interactive video model unveiled
Announced at the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference, Vidu S1 generates video in real time under voice control at 540p (960x540) and 25 FPS, peaking at 42 FPS, for continuous interactive sessions.
prnewswire.com - Launch
Vidu Q3 Reference-to-Video released
Vidu Q3 Reference-to-Video added up to 16 seconds of synchronised audio-and-video generation with multi-shot composition and camera control.
prnewswire.com - Funding
Series B — RMB 2 billion ($293M) led by Alibaba Cloud
ShengShu raised 2 billion yuan ($292.59 million) in a round led by Alibaba Cloud, joined by Andon Haitang, China Internet Investment Fund, TAL Education and Luminous Ventures alongside existing backers LINK-X CAPITAL, Delta Capital and Baidu Ventures. The company said the capital funds a "general world model".
finance.yahoo.com - Funding
Series A+ — over RMB 600 million
Co-led by Zhongguancun Science City and LINK-X CAPITAL, with strategic investment from Wondershare, Visual China Group and TRS, and follow-on from Qiming Venture Partners, the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, G&O, C&D Emerging Industry and Guowen Hechuang.
prnewswire.com - Launch
TurboDiffusion open-sourced with Tsinghua University
ShengShu and Tsinghua University released TurboDiffusion, an open-source acceleration framework combining low-bit attention and sampling-step distillation; the announcement cited a 1080p clip generated in about 8 seconds versus roughly 900 seconds before.
prnewswire.com - Launch
Vidu Q2 Reference-to-Video released
ShengShu launched Vidu Q2 Reference-to-Video, its reference-driven generation model, citing higher subject and scene consistency, faster generation and lower pricing than the prior release.
prnewswire.com - Launch
Vidu launched globally
Vidu became available worldwide in July 2024, opening ShengShu's video model to creators, studios and enterprises outside China.
prnewswire.com - Launch
Vidu text-to-video model released
ShengShu released Vidu, its first text-to-video generation model, widely framed as a Chinese answer to OpenAI's Sora.
finance.yahoo.com - Funding
Round of several hundred million yuan led by Qiming Venture Partners
ShengShu announced a new financing round of "several hundred million yuan" led by Qiming Venture Partners, with Delta Capital, Hongfu Houde, Zhipu AI and returning investors BV Baidu Ventures and Zhuoyuan Asia participating. China Renaissance acted as sole financial adviser.
36kr.com - Founded
Founded in Beijing as a Tsinghua University AI spin-out
ShengShu Technology was founded in March 2023 in Beijing by Tsinghua University computer science professor Zhu Jun, commercialising his lab's work on multimodal diffusion models.
eu.36kr.com
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