TLDR: HiDream.ai, a Chinese startup specializing in multimodal generative AI, has received the prestigious Best Demo award at the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025). The award recognizes their revolutionary HiDream-Agent, a unified multimodal agent that simplifies complex visual content creation through an intuitive conversational interface, marking a significant achievement as the first Chinese team to earn this distinction in the field.
BEIJING, November 6, 2025 – HiDream.ai, an innovative Chinese startup at the forefront of multimodal generative artificial intelligence, has been awarded the coveted Best Demo at the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025). This accolade is particularly significant as it marks the first time a Chinese startup team in multimodal generative AI has received this honor, highlighting HiDream.ai’s exceptional research capabilities and innovative prowess in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
The award-winning innovation, HiDream-Agent, is described as a revolutionary unified multimodal agent designed to transform the intricate process of visual content creation into an intuitive conversational experience. The agent’s core strength lies in its ability to overcome the limitations of fragmented multimodal tools by seamlessly integrating various functionalities within a single interface. This includes text-to-image generation, instruction-based image editing, and text/image-to-video generation, effectively addressing the industry-wide challenge of cross-modal semantic alignment.
HiDream.ai has demonstrated a consistent track record of innovation. Earlier this year, in April, their HiDream-I1 model quickly rose to the top of the authoritative Artificial Analysis ranking within 24 hours of its launch. This achievement positioned it as the first Chinese self-developed generative AI model to enter the global top tier, a leading position it has maintained since.
The ACM MM conference, organized by the Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), stands as a premier academic event in the global multimedia field. It is dedicated to advancing research innovation and industrial application of multimedia technologies, making the Best Demo award a strong international recognition of HiDream.ai’s research outcomes and the team’s competence in multimedia technology innovation and application.
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Looking ahead, HiDream.ai plans to further deepen its multimodal technology innovation, accelerate the industrialization of its technologies, and expand its core application scenarios. Key areas for expansion include digital creation and film/television post-production. The company also aims to foster global technological collaboration and academic exchanges, with the ultimate goal of delivering more intelligent and efficient AI creative solutions to creators worldwide.
