What Sand.ai does
Sand.ai builds video generation models and the apps that use them. It was founded by Cao Yue, a co-author of Swin Transformer. Its models are Magi-1, an autoregressive video model, and GAGA-1, which generates audio and video together. It has also released MAGI-2 Preview as open source, a 114B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates 6B parameters per token. Its VidMuse app builds visuals around the structure of a song, and the company says it passed $10M ARR within two months of launch. Its consumer terms of service are issued by SandAI Pte. Limited, a Singapore entity.
How Sand.ai compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Sand.ai does. Among the 3 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Pika Labs at $8 a month and the median is $25. 2 of the 5 offer an API, as Sand.ai does. Sand.ai offers a web app and a mobile app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and none offers a mobile app. Sand.ai was founded in 2024; the alternatives were founded between 2017 and 2024, 4 of them earlier. Sand.ai is based in Beijing, China; none of its 5 alternatives is in China. They are in Singapore, the United Kingdom, India and elsewhere.