Beanbao's liu xing challenges claims of half domestic computing power used for short films

On October 19, 2026, IT Home reported that a topic claiming over half of domestic computing power is used to create short films has sparked attention. According to a disclosure by Chinese Online in an investor relations activity record, 55% of AI token consumption is allocated to short films and video generation, 24% to e-commerce ads, and only 15% to research and development. AI short films and video generation consume more than twice as many tokens as software development, becoming the largest core consumption scenario in token economics. Liu Xing, public relations head of Beanbao, responded that the computing power data is unreliable. He stated that within ByteDance's total computing power, only about 10% is used for training and inference of video generation models. The article also highlights the rapid rise of AI short films, noting that their production costs are only 1/10 of those for live-action films, with a new short film produced every 36 seconds on average.