Kling AI

Kling AI is Kuaishou's flagship AI creative productivity platform for video and image generation, launched in June 2024 and already hitting an annualized revenue run-rate of over $100 million by its tenth month online . It entered the global top tier of AI video tools rapidly: by March 2025 it ranked 17th on a global top-100 AI apps list, with monthly visits surpassing OpenAI's Sora . The product's competitive edge lies in camera movement controls, lip-sync alignment, and strong price-performance positioning .

The platform has moved through an exceptionally fast iteration cycle. Kling 2.1 arrived in May 2025 with 1080p HD and cost efficiency as headline features; by early 2026 the team had already pushed out 2.5 Turbo, O1, and 2.6, making audio-video synchronized generation a baseline capability . Kling 2.0, released in April 2025, introduced upgraded base models for both video (Kling 2.0 "Master Edition") and image generation (Ketu 2.0), plus new multimodal editing tools . The pace reflects the broader AI video landscape's compression from half-yearly leader shifts to mere weeks between benchmark-topping releases .

For Kuaishou, Kling AI has become more than a side project. By February 2025 it had generated over 168 million videos and helped drive a daily spend of 30 million RMB in AIGC short-video marketing and virtual livestreaming, contributing to cumulative business revenue exceeding 100 million RMB . The company also launched an international version in 2024 to expand beyond China . As of early 2026, Kling AI sits in a crowded top tier alongside ByteDance's Seedance, Google's Veo series, and OpenAI's Sora, with the gap between leaders narrow enough that rankings shift frequently .