China's Pace and Geopolitical Stakes

Seedance 2.0 is the best AI video model we've ever seen. Bytedance's new AI tool generates 15 second clips of basically anything. But what happens next? And where do we go from here?

Gavin got early access before it got locked down. We tested it with original animation, fake sitcoms, anime, and a McDonald's ad. The results are genuinely shocking - multi-shot editing, cinematic camera work, and real celebrity voices coming straight out of the model. People are making fake Seinfeld episodes, Avengers deleted scenes, and Rocky working at a fast food restaurant with Optimus Prime.

Plus two new Chinese LLMs beating American models on benchmarks, Google Deep Think scores 84% on ARC-AGI, OpenAI's Codex Spark model, that viral AI post your mom sent you, and Kevin loses his mind building an Open Claw agent named Mr. Tibs who now requests server upgrades at 3am.

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Seedance 2.0 - Bytedance's New AI Video Best Since Sora 2

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_0

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/bytedances-new-ai-video-model-goes-viral-china-looks-second-deepseek-moment-2026-02-12/

The Seinfeld Test:

https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/2021351821718225330?s=20

Even better The Seinfeld Fight: https://x.com/itspoidaman/status/2021409465355075655?s=20

Wolverine vs Thanos: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2021979655130296487?s=20

Avengers Endgame: https://x.com/cfryant/status/2021398605278376201?s=20

Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt: https://x.com/RuairiRobinson/status/2021394940757209134?s=20

Ethan Hunt vs John Wick: https://x.com/chatcutapp/status/2021902856367092108?s=20 Gavin's Game of Friends Sitcom Test:

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021418263432032635?s=20

Gavin's Rocky Balboa & Optimus Prime Test:

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021429329012650045?s=20

Original Animation style: https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021396803787383254?s=20

Anime test: https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021732810554507352?s=20

Comparing AI McDonald's Ads: https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1802715910488400047?s=20 GLM-5 from Z.AI

https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2021638634739527773

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5

GLM-5 Gameboy Emulation

https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2021754659590033565?s=20

New Minimax 2.5 Model

https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2021980761210134808?s=20

CODEX SPARK - Faster Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/

New Google Deep Think Model CRUSHES Benchmarks

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2021981510400709092?s=20

The 'Something Big Is Happening' Post Heard Round The World

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403?s=20

Gavin's Simultaneous Take (in Monday's newsletter too)

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2021292314291999182

AI 2027

https://ai-2027.com/

One-Shot Otter Anime From Ethan Mollick:

https://x.com/emollick/status/2021412306291392535

The Best Prompt Ever Seedance

https://x.com/Gossip_Goblin/status/2021468902220497061?s=20

MattVidPro's Shrek & Donkey Crash a Honda Accord

https://x.com/MattVidPro/status/2021739211674566808?s=20