PixVerse
Pixverse
PixVerse is the flagship AI video generation product of AISphere (爱诗科技), a Chinese startup founded in April 2023 that counts Ant Group among its backers . The product entered beta in October 2023 and has iterated at a relentless clip — eight model versions from V1 to V5 by August 2025 alone, followed by V5.5 (one-click storyboard-plus-audio generation), the R1 real-time "world model" in January 2026, V6 in March 2026, and C1, the company's first vertically trained model, tuned for fight scenes, special effects, and multi-panel storyboarding in AI comic dramas . It also runs a domestic Chinese version under the name 拍我AI and has pushed into interactive territory with PixVerse Game, which generates playable games from a single prompt .
Commercially, it has become one of the few AI video products with real numbers behind it: 100 million global users announced in August 2025, growing to 150 million users across 177 countries with ARR above $40 million by end of 2025, and a reported 2.98 billion yuan raise behind it . That traction matters in a field that, per 十字路口Crossing's coverage, has entered an elimination phase — OpenAI's Sora shut down in March 2026 after earning just $2.1 million against roughly $1 million in daily operating costs, leaving PixVerse sparring with ByteDance's Seedance, Kuaishou's Kling, and Alibaba's models in what co-founder Xie Xuzhang calls the "final stretch" of video foundation models .
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