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iQIYI Launches Global AI Filmmaking Contest With Alibaba's Wan3.0

iQIYI Launches Global AI Filmmaking Contest With Alibaba's Wan3.0

Beijing – September 16, 2026 -- iQIYI has launched the Global AI Creator Challenge, the first international contest on its professional filmmaking platform NadouPro, partnering with Alibaba's Wan3.0 model to drive end-to-end AI video production.

Contest offers $10,000 prize pool across 156 winners

Themed "Make Ideas Unforgettable," the challenge runs submissions from September 10 to 23, 2026, with judging from September 24 to 30. A total prize pool exceeding USD 10,000 will be split among 156 winners: three Masterpiece Awards, three People's Choice Awards and 150 Active Participation Awards. Winning entries will receive additional promotion from NadouPro and Wan3.0 after judging concludes.

Dashverse's Frameo Tops Independent AI Filmmaking Benchmark

Dashverse's Frameo Tops Independent AI Filmmaking Benchmark

San Francisco – September 14, 2026 -- Dashverse's AI filmmaking agent Frameo scored 88.7 out of 100 in an independent human evaluation, finishing nearly 20 points ahead of the second-placed system among eight AI video agents tested.

Frameo beats Runway, Luma and Kling in 800-video evaluation

The benchmark, Arc v1.0 Movie, was published by Physion Labs and compared Frameo against Runway Agent 2.0, Luma Creative Agents, Kling Canvas Agent, Invideo Agent One and four other AI filmmaking agents. Evaluators reviewed 800 videos generated from 100 prompts, scoring each system across 16 metrics covering narrative coherence, cinematic language and production quality. Frameo ranked first on 13 of the 16 metrics, including all eight human-preference categories.