A Chinese AI video startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive images

A China-based startup, Sand AI, has released an openly licensed video-generating AI model that's garnered praise from entrepreneurs like Microsoft Research Asia founding director Kai-Fu Lee. But Sand AI appears to be censoring images that might raise the ire of Chinese regulators from the hosted version of the model, according to TechCrunch's testing. Earlier this week, Sand AI announced Magi-1, a model that generates videos by "autoregressively" predicting sequences of frames. The company claims the model can generate high-quality, controllable footage that captures physics more accurately than rival open models. Magi-1 is too impractical to run on most consumer hardware….