Seedance called AI video's answer to Claude and GPT

The headline saying Claude and GPT are expanding into video does not quite hold up. The Chinese tech analysis I have been able to find says the opposite: Claude and GPT have not moved into video. Instead, a third player, Seedance, has taken that spot.

Seedance is an AI model from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok. It can create video from text or images. Version 2.0 arrived in February 2026. According to the analysis, which refers to the rankings at Artificial Analysis, it is number one in both text-to-video and image-to-video.

The new "big three"

The article on the Chinese outlet Woshipm talks about a new trio in AI. Claude is the default choice for programming, GPT for general tasks, and Seedance has become the preferred choice for video. That is the author's assessment, not an official fact.

The analysis also writes that OpenAI has shut down the web and app versions of its video service Sora, and that its API is being shut down. I have only seen that in the one source, so take it with caution.

Why is Seedance hard to compete with?

The analysis points to three moats:

- Data: ByteDance has ten years of video from TikTok and Douyin as well as its own tools for compression and recommendation. - Technology: The company has built its own infrastructure for training large models. Seedance also creates sound and picture at the same time, so less needs to be done afterward. - Lock-in: Seedance is built into ByteDance's own editing programs such as CapCut and Jianying. If you switch models, quality gets worse according to the analysis, so switching is cumbersome.

That makes it hard for competitors to close the gap simply by making a better model.

What does it mean for you?

If you use AI for video, it is likely that you already encounter Seedance, often via other apps. In practice, Claude is used as a helper to write good instructions for Seedance. That shows the tools complement each other rather than compete directly.

Whether the moats will hold is still an open question. Nothing suggests, however, that Claude or ChatGPT are about to enter the field right now.