ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 hits Cannes with 95-minute AI film Hell Grind

At the 79th Cannes Film Festival, where cinematic storytelling has never been in short supply, one of this year’s biggest surprises came from AI. On Thursday, ByteDance’s cloud platform Volcengine brought its Seedance 2.0 model to Cannes, where the company hosted an AI film showcase and premiered Hell Grind , a 95-minute AI-generated feature film billed as the world’s first full-length AI movie. The production team behind the feature film comes from the US-based AI company Higgsfield, while its