Wondershare Technology Group (300624.SZ) strategically invests in Vidu, a joint effort to create a new paradigm of industrialized production of AI animated dramas.

After the launch of Wanxing Drama Factory and the multi-million-dollar investment in the explosive comic drama production company Lingman Kuai Chuang, on February 5th, AIGC software A-share listed company Wondershare Technology Group (300624.SZ) announced an increase in its AI comic drama strategy, investing tens of millions of yuan in strategic investment in the artificial intelligence enterprise Shengshu Technology, focusing on the research and development of multimodal universal large models. At the same time, the two parties reached a strategic cooperation to create an ecological level of co-creation with "large models + tools + scenes" and create a new paradigm of industrialized production of AI comic dramas. The signing ceremony for the strategic investment cooperation was held in Shenzhen, with Wondershare Technology Group Chairman Wu Taibing, Shengshu Technology CEO Luo Yihang, and other key executives in attendance. It is reported that this strong alliance between the two parties aims to fully leverage their respective strengths and accelerate the deep integration and scale landing of AI technology in digital creativity, especially in the field of comic dramas. This includes building an AI comic drama "ecosystem + technology" complete loop by using the Shengshu Technology Vidu AI comic drama large model combined with Wondershare Technology Group's global solutions, creating innovative tools for future comic drama creation, promoting technical innovation and application of multimodal large models in video and image generation scenarios, co-building AIGC tool chain and solutions for professional creators and enterprises, and constructing a collaborative, shared, and win-win AIGC application ecosystem, jointly outlining a new blueprint for the AIGC content industry represented by AI comic dramas. Wondershare Technology Group General Manager of Strategic Investment Wu Jiabing (left) and Shengshu Technology CEO Luo Yihang (right) attend the strategic investment cooperation signing ceremony. Shengshu Technology CEO Luo Yihang expressed on the spot that Shengshu Technology has always been committed to rooting top multimodal AI technology in the most valuable industrial soil. The cooperation with Wondershare Technology Group is a key move for Shengshu Technology to realize the "scalability of technology value" strategy. Wondershare Technology Group's mature global product ecosystem and user base provide the optimum path for the large-scale application conversion and continuous iterative optimization of the Vidu large model. It is believed that through the deep integration of "top models + top platforms," the efficiency boundary of creation tools will be redefined, enabling model capabilities to be truly "embedded" in key creative nodes, enhancing production delivery capabilities, allowing global creators to enjoy creation, and collectively promoting the arrival of the "creative equality" era. As a new emerging format combining "culture + technology," AI comic dramas, with their low cost, high productivity, and imaginative visual presentation, are quickly accumulating users and commercial circulation at an astonishing speed, experiencing explosive growth. According to industry forecasts, the global AI comic drama market is expected to exceed 100 billion yuan in the next three years, making AI comic dramas a strategic race track for top technology companies to seize the global digital creative high ground. It is reported that Wondershare Technology Group and Shengshu Technology began their collaboration in 2024, with multiple products from their video creative business integrating the capabilities of the Vidu large model. The collaboration foundation is deep. Public information shows that Shengshu Technology's Vidu focuses on self-developed multimodal universal large models and applications, having built Vidu MaaS, Vidu SaaS, and Vidu Agent application matrices. Currently, Vidu has become one of the preferred models for global creators, content organizations, and enterprises to use for commercial content creation. By constructing the world's leading "reference-generated video model," it not only solves core creative challenges such as character consistency and stable images but also liberates creators from repetitive labor, effectively promoting the scale and standardization of production capacity, leading the industrialization process of AI comic dramas. With over twenty years of cultivating digital creative software, Wondershare Technology Group is an A-share listed company in China with a wide product coverage, large revenue volume, and a high degree of globalization in the digital creative software field. Its business covers over 200 countries and regions globally, with over 2 billion active users, being dubbed the "Chinese version of Adobe." In preparation for the AI comic drama era, Wondershare Technology Group is taking the lead, implementing the "dual-mode driving + AIGC application matrix innovation" strategy. Its self-developed Wanxing Tianmu large model features the characteristics of "multimedia + vertical solutions + localized computing power data and application," and it also introduces third-party advantage models from various fields, as well as innovatively developing Wanxing Drama Factory, Wanxing Tianmu AI, and other AI native products and solutions, providing a one-stop service from creative ideas to finished products for the AI comic drama industry. The newly launched Wanxing Drama Factory (reelmate.cn) is an AI-driven one-stop boutique comic drama creation platform, integrating leading industry image and video generation models. It is designed for short comic drama production companies, AIGC film and television studios, and universities/film and television training institutions to create "Your Exclusive AI Film Studio," featuring abilities such as adapting scripts from million-character novels, director-level controllable creation, complete smart efficiency, extreme high cost-effectiveness, efficient team collaboration management, professional Agent inspiring creativity, exclusive knowledge bank for creative compounding, with an average production cycle speed increase of eight times per episode, a 72% decrease in overall labor costs, an average 55% reduction in computing costs, a 60%+ reduction in AI production costs for the entire project, widely applicable to the large-scale production of high-quality dramas such as 2D comic dramas, AI character dramas, 3D comic dramas, and film and television dramas to assist in creating popular works even with zero foundation and low costs. In the future, Wanxing Drama Factory will further enhance the consistency of comic drama styles and characters based on the core capabilities of Wanxing Tianmu and Vidu, promote full-process co-creation Agent, upgrade Vidu with AI simulated human comic intelligence Agent, and establish a new benchmark for an AI comic drama creation platform.