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just met a guy who does ugc for higgsfield
guess which city is higgsfield's #1 by revenue? not NYC or LA
it's "Seoul"
every new technology has its frontier city, and for ai video that's korea
k-pop idol MVs are already using ai
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tiktok shop's top brands like medicube and anua are all making ai content at scale
what's happening in seoul is coming to la and nyc next
SF nerds couldn't even imagine
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people in SF think that AI UGCs are the only way to use AI videos
bro, that's only 1% of the AI video market opportunity
get outside of the tech bubble, you'll see a whole different world
One of the wildest AI video use cases we’ve seen from our beta customers : Gmarket's (one of Korea’s largest e-commerce company) videos are generated with our Agentic Video API to automate hundreds to thousands of live-commerce videos featuring AI hosts.
traditionally, producing a single host-led commerce video could cost thousands to tens of thousands of dollars (you needed a studio, talent, scripting, and a production crew)
but the way people actually shop through live commerce makes that math difficult
most viewers don’t sit through an entire show. They scroll, stop for a moment, and buy if something catches their attention. an expensive production doesn’t necessarily translate into better returns
what matters is being able to produce more content at a much lower cost. that makes this one of the clearest opportunities for AI video. we’ve seen multiple cases where these videos have driven thousands of dollars in sales
since visiting Korea from SF, I think i've learned a lot about what the future of AI content actually looks like (Asia is the frontier for AI content)
businesses in Korea and China are putting AI content to work aggressively. I think many of the use cases emerging here will start showing up in the US&EU over the next few months (actually it might take a long time for EU)
If you’re interested in producing AI videos at scale, DM me or reach out at david@sume.com.
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One of the wildest AI video use cases we’ve seen from our beta customers : Gmarket's (one of Korea’s largest e-commerce company) videos are generated with our Agentic Video API to automate hundreds to thousands of live-commerce videos featuring AI hosts.
traditionally, producing a single host-led commerce video could cost thousands to tens of thousands of dollars (you needed a studio, talent, scripting, and a production crew)
but the way people actually shop through live commerce makes that math difficult
most viewers don’t sit through an entire show. They scroll, stop for a moment, and buy if something catches their attention. an expensive production doesn’t necessarily translate into better returns
what matters is being able to produce more content at a much lower cost. that makes this one of the clearest opportunities for AI video. we’ve seen multiple cases where these videos have driven thousands of dollars in sales
since visiting Korea from SF, I think i've learned a lot about what the future of AI content actually looks like (Asia is the frontier for AI content)
businesses in Korea and China are putting AI content to work aggressively. I think many of the use cases emerging here will start showing up in the US&EU over the next few months (actually it might take a long time for EU)
If you’re interested in producing AI videos at scale, DM me or reach out at david@sume.com.
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Every technology has places where the future shows up first. For AI content, I think that’s China and Korea.
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One of the wildest things happening in AI video right now is short dramas.
China’s short-drama and animated-drama market reached nearly $15B in 2025. Almost TWICE the country’s entire movie box office.
Here’s the wild part: over 95% of the roughly 128,000 short dramas released in China in Q1 2026 were AI productions, according to the China Netcasting Services Association. By the end of the first half, DataEye had tracked over 220,000 new AI and animated dramas on Douyin, generating 500B views.
The same pattern extends beyond AI short-form content to AI ads: currently 8 of the 10 top-performing AI ads on TikTok Shop are from K-beauty brands.
My bet is that AI content trends emerging in Eastern Asia will increasingly make their way to the US.
Sources f:
CNN: cnn.com/2026/08/22/style/sho…
Guangming Daily, citing CNSA (95% figure): news.gmw.cn/2026-05/02/conte…
DataEye H1 2026 report: pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP20260…
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Every technology has places where the future shows up first. For AI content, I think that’s China and Korea.
>>
One of the wildest things happening in AI video right now is short dramas.
China’s short-drama and animated-drama market reached nearly $15B in 2025. Almost TWICE the country’s entire movie box office.
Here’s the wild part: over 95% of the roughly 128,000 short dramas released in China in Q1 2026 were AI productions, according to the China Netcasting Services Association. By the end of the first half, DataEye had tracked over 220,000 new AI and animated dramas on Douyin, generating 500B views.
The same pattern extends beyond AI short-form content to AI ads: currently 8 of the 10 top-performing AI ads on TikTok Shop are from K-beauty brands.
My bet is that AI content trends emerging in Eastern Asia will increasingly make their way to the US.
Sources f:
CNN: cnn.com/2026/08/22/style/sho…
Guangming Daily, citing CNSA (95% figure): news.gmw.cn/2026-05/02/conte…
DataEye H1 2026 report: pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP20260…
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my prediction
> the hardware that OpenAI launches will be an AirPod-like device, and it will serve as a companion-like voice agent that orchestrates multiple subagents
GPT-Live-1 is now available in the API.
Bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth to your app, with voice agents that listen while they speak and work with the models and harness you choose.
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I'll immediately pay $1,000 for this kind of hardware
The interface would be full-duplex voice, with two layers of agents:
1. An orchestrator with persistent memory across all my context (Slack, Linear, Notion, Email, etc). Orchestrates my subagents
2. Specialized subagents, each with the context and tools needed to handle a specific task. Can control a browser running in a cloud VM.
So basically a grok bot with a voice first interface, as a thin client (essentially a small Linux machine running an agent like Codex or Claude Code. Model inference happens in the cloud, while the agent can execute code and use tools locally or on a remote VM, so the device itself doesn’t need powerful hardware)
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doing a closed beta with large, paying b2b customers is actually good
you can keep the “user feedback → shipping” loop very tight. and since they’re paying a lot, they give wonderful feedback. they can provide more value than PMs when it comes to product development
(then you can just distribute the product more broadly once it gets really good. like the @AsideAI team)
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