Aurora Mobile integrates Vidu Q3-Mix to automate e-commerce and AI drama

This integration signals a move toward high-controllability AI tools optimized for production pipelines rather than casual experimentation. By focusing on reference-based consistency, Modellix is addressing the primary technical bottleneck preventing AI video from replacing traditional b-roll and product shoots. Within the broader ecosystem, this puts pressure on incumbent platforms like Sora and Runway to provide similar unified interfaces for enterprise-grade consistency. Watch the volume of AI-generated microdramas and social commerce ads on major platforms, as this level of stability significantly lowers the entry barrier for high-volume content creators.

The launch of Vidu Q3-Mix coincides with a surge in the AI video generation market, which is projected to reach $18.6 billion by the end of 2026, according to analysis from Vivideo in February 2026. This growth is increasingly fueled by the 'microdrama' sector, where full seasons of 60 to 90 episodes are being produced for under $200,000 using generative tools, per reporting from Forbes in March 2026. Creators in this space are pivoting from text-to-video toward image-to-video and reference-to-video workflows to ensure that characters remain visually identical across serialized content.

ShengShu Technology’s competitive position was recently bolstered by a 2 billion yuan (approximately $293 million) Series B funding round led by Alibaba Cloud in April 2026, per PRNewswire and China Tech Signals. This capital has funded the rollout of its Vidu model family across 200 regions globally. At the same time, the industry is seeing rapid model consolidation; while many niche tools exist, Google’s Veo 3.1 captured a 96.4% market share of AI video generations in early 2026, according to Vivideo. Vidu Q3 is one of the few models successfully competing on creative benchmarks, recently ranking first in China and second globally on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard as of June 2026.