On the vibrating sound, the 68 series of the Ai reality shorts, “The Queen’s Hearts of the Queen’s Palace ” , played a cumulative amount of 210 million; the first paid Ai short play in the country, “Hingingleing’s Scrolls”, had a total of less than 21 hours on the line, with a cumulative amount of 561.33 million, with a total yield of over 300,000 from the original tremor, and an increase of 100,000+ in the account; overseas, the AfterDivorce peaked at over 5 million, and became the world’s first Ai short play in the top sales of short-time tickets.
The bright-eyed data of these short plays are continuously refreshing the industry ‘ s perception of their transmission.
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And behind these blasts, the production-end efficiency revolution is equally remarkable, and “crawling up” has become a prominent feature. In the case of the full-AI short play White Fox, for example, a team of only four people, with ChatGPT to complete a quick iterative script, then to build audio-visual content through tools such as Ai mapping, smart clippings, not only compressing the three-month production cycle under the traditional model to two weeks, but also reducing the cost of production per minute from tens of thousands of dollars to 10,000 dollars, both efficiency and cost advantages.
Interest-driven, capital is accelerating “run-in”.
From the first AIG short play in the country, “The Three Stars: A Revelations of the Future”, to the Chinese Friends’ announcement of the preparation of seven AI shorts, to the Kuala Lumpur shorts. With a monthly flow of $10 million, the platform now has more than 10 A-stock listed companies that have multiple dimensions to bet on the AI short course, from technology development, content creation to platform operation.
From a rapid leap from a technical test to a capital race in the commercial Blue Sea, the outbreak of the AI short play is clear. However, technological bottlenecks, content homogeneity and copyright disputes still follow – Can this radical AI content revolution really run from “flow realization” to “long-term value”?
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At the end of 2023, the Boone industry began to smell industry opportunities by setting up the AIGMS production centre, which integrated AIGMS with the industrial film production system, as an early enterprise to explore the intelligence of video content; and in July 2024, the first AIGS short show in the country, The Three Stars: A Revelation of the Future, was launched by the fast-starter, who for the first time integrated with “Technology + Content”, entered the mainstream view.
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As we enter this year, the addition of the platform further magnifies the attraction of the track: Dream AI launched the “AIG short play joint recruitment program” with the voice of Whispering, while the quick-hander launched the “Star-Small short drama x-Cola-Ai-A-I-A-I-A-I-Theater” model, both of which launched a tens of millions of-degree cash incentive and a billion-thousand flow support, both lowering the creation threshold and providing a clear path to content realization.
This model of “platforming, capital singing” directly drives capital markets to accelerate “run-in” and now includes the Bonna film industry, with more than 10 A-stock listed companies coming in from technological research and development, content creation, IP operations, etc., moving the AI short play from a piecemeal pilot project to a scale production phase.
Among them, the Science and Technology Corporation, represented by Kuala Lumpur Manway, has taken the lead in building technological barriers: Its launch of the AI short play creation platform SkyReels has completed multiple rounds of upgrades to support 30 seconds of video generation, multi-curricular scene-building and a seamless line-up of front-end frames to provide efficient creative tools for the industry; DramaWave, the flagship short play platform, reaches users worldwide through a “pay-for-free” model, with a monthly flow of $10 million as of the first quarter of 2025, and closes the technology research and development-content-distribution-business transformation.
The focus on the efficiency of output-output hands-on technology and national art is driven by the two dimensions of “high frequency output” and “long-term operation”: Hand-in-hand technology has identified three or so Ai shorts per month in the future to run the full process of production and commercialization of the Ai short play as soon as possible; the national art culture has cumulatively completed 240 Ai short productions since the layout, with a total of 70 million Internet-wide broadcasts, and the latest Ai opera, Operation Sacramento, is scheduled to go online on the eve of National Day this year, creating a steady rhythm of “continuous output + nodal eruption”.
Gravity media focus on “Technology + Content” synergy, relying on AI video generation technology to explore AI micro-short dramas and AI animations simultaneously, in an attempt to find differential advantages in content form. The Bonner industry also uses this approach, and, in addition to the previous content production layout, has recently pushed the “Borner One-Ai short play generation platform” to integrate deeply with AI technology and video expertise, which can be directly translated into a complete short play video.
As traditional video giants, the fratricidal brothers, with their IP reserve and industrialization experience, have been very powerful in terms of content. The Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Huayan Brothers, King Zhong Zhong Zhong Zhong Zhong of the CEO, has publicly stated that the Chinese Friends are about to launch the first full-AI production list in the country’s film industry, and that they are now in reserve for seven short plays and one single-ai film, several of which have been produced and will be on line.
More listed companies have chosen “multi-track” to tap cross-border values: the Juarez Century revealed in their investor interactions that it has steadily deepened the layout and increased resource investment in the newly emerging tracks, such as the Ai short play and the Ai comic; the Cai-Eng network built an overseas media matrix around its own IP Time Order to promote the dual goal of “content out of the sea + IP realization” through the Ai short play IP; and the Chinese online production of nearly 100 comics and dynamic cartoons in 2024 using AI technology, with a cumulative view of over 3 billion times, followed by a plan to cover the “Fact-Creative-Silient” self-study AI tool chain to further connect the entire chain.
Other enterprises have opted for “hot competition” on the basis of their core advantages: while the Reading Group has not yet launched a purely AI short play, the Executive Director, CEO, has made it clear that it will work with IP as a copyrighter, with the aim of “reshaping the ecology from creation to consumption”; Mango super-media is still in the process of being developed in the AI short play area, but its Mountain Sea Institute and Mango Large Model have been registered through the Central Network, and the full-process production of AI has been applied in the areas of micro-short operas, so as to build up experience with “appliative exploration”.
AI Reshaping Production Process: Dual Change in Efficiency and Creative
The capital bet on the AI short play, the core drive being generated by the significant breakthrough in the system change and downside efficiency of AI in the production process.
A retrospect of the production process of traditional video works, whether long-form or short, short and delicate, usually involves planning, script creation, cornering, viewing, filming and later production. This process is not only time-consuming and costly. However, the involvement of AI technology has radically changed the situation.
On the creative side, large-language models such as ChatGPT show great power. It can produce the first draft of the script quickly on the basis of keywords, and it can also optimize the pain and flame of the drama. In the case of light media, for example, the company used the AI smart system to carry out a mass assessment and diagnostic of the company ‘ s backlog of thousands of scripts, significantly reducing the required incubation cycle under the traditional model.
At the end of the production, the Ai-Vanctuary, graphic video technology has been brought to the fore, effectively replacing high-cost scenario-building and animation modelling and avoiding the high costs and risks associated with field filming. While improving the efficiency of short play production, the cost of scenes and manpower has been reduced. At present, AI technology has been widely applied for scenario rehearsal, special effects sequence preparation and production planning. This means that the “high-level special effects” that once required teamwork can now be achieved easily by one person using AI.
This process-wide intellectual change, like the White Fox case mentioned earlier, has led to a leap forward in efficiency, not only lowering the industry threshold, but also enabling creators to invest more resources in the grinding of content, thus improving the quality of their work.
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As tools such as Sora2 continue to lower the technical threshold, the production process for the AI short play will be further streamlined. Just one word, Sora 2 can generate short video. It is significantly enhanced in terms of quality, duration, synchronization, consistency, etc., and can generate short videos of up to 10 seconds ‘ duration, close to 4K details. In addition, Sora2 achieves a basic synchronization of voice and mouth and supports multilingual dialogue generation. In such a technological context, the technical barriers to the AI short play are decreasing and the imagination of the creators is better realized.
In addition to efficiency gains, the growing expansion of diversified business models has strongly underpinned the growth of market space in the AI short play. At present, the AI short play has explored a wide range of profit paths: in addition to ads to see the short play and pay for it, in branding, AI is able to generate targeted advertising and integrate it into the short. In the play, the multi-form promotion of soft and hard advertising has expanded the revenue space for short plays.
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Despite these rapid developments, the AI short play faces many challenges.
First, at the content level, the AI short play has not yet been produced as a phenomenon-level work, most of which relies on the platform. Some of the creators over-exposed themselves to the luxuriousness of the picture and the flow of action, while ignoring the consistency of the story and the shaping of the role, which led to the creation of a slide stack. For example, some AI micro-shorts create visual shocks through special effects piles, but the logic of the drama is confusing and it is difficult for the audience to resonate.
At the same time, the AI shortshow market is facing a serious homogeneity of content. A large number of works are composing in fields that are easily AI-generated, such as phantom and science fiction, leading to an acceleration of aesthetic fatigue. More worrying is the growing tendency to rely too heavily on technology to ignore the essence of content.
The second is at the technical level. Although AI can quickly generate a special-effect scenario and optimize the impact of the image, emotional expression and character formation are inadequate. Human sense of humor, fear and cultural background are closely linked, and AIS simulations often lack depth. For example, the role mentality can be transmitted through micro-images by movie-class actors, while the performance generated by AI remains hard. In addition, technical slabs lead to frequent problems of identity-situation consistency.
At the commercial level, the overall profitability of the AI short play has yet to be fully demonstrated. Despite the fact that individual works have bright broadcast data, most still rely on platform subsidies and traffic support and lack independent profit models. More crucial is the widespread lack of IP attributes in the AI short play, which makes it difficult to create lasting brand influence, leading to a persistent low user retention rate. This dilemma is compounded by short-termist creative tendencies, with many producers sacrificing the quality of their work for quick profit, a thirst that not only harms the user ‘ s experience but also hinders the development of healthy business models.
Even worse, copyright and ethical issues are frequent. Some of the groups use the AI key to produce scripts, to change their faces and even to sell “specified intimacy”, which seriously violates the rights of others. The Interim Scheme for the Management of Generating Artificial Intelligence Services, 2023, explicitly states that the production of AI content shall not infringe on the rights of others to portraits and reputations, but the violation is still repeated.
Overall, the outbreak of the AI short drama is the result of a combination of technology, capital and market demand, but its long-term development needs to cross the triple threshold of content, technology and commercialization. In the future, only if the best balance is found between technological innovation, content quality and commercial values can this AI-led content revolution truly move from “flow realization” to “long-term value”.
