Video generator: Chinese AI "Kling AI" to compete with "Sora"

The video AI Sora has competition from Beijing: "Kling AI" produces videos of equal quality and should even deliver longer and more coherent results.

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Rabbit reading a newspaper in a café

A rabbit reads the newspaper (screenshot from a video generated with "Kling AI").

(Image: Kuaishou)

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This article was originally published in German and has been automatically translated.

Beijing-based tech company Kuaishou has released "Kling AI", a video AI that delivers impressive videos and is set to rival OpenAI's "Sora". This is evident from various posts on social media. Anyone who wants to test Kling needs an app and a Chinese telephone number and must first be put on a waiting list.

According to Kuaishou, Kling can produce videos up to two minutes long with a resolution of 1080p and a frame rate of 30fps. By comparison, Sora's videos look unrealistic after around ten seconds. According to a user on X, it takes no longer than three minutes to create the videos.

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In an FAQ, Kuaishou states that Kling uses a "3D space-time attention" model to combine spatial and temporal information and generate high-resolution images. Kling is also able to correctly simulate the physical properties of the real world.

Diffusion models are also used. This means that fictitious content can also be generated, such as a panda riding a bicycle. In addition to OpenAI, Google is also working on such AI models. In March, for example, Google presented a framework that can generate a video based on a single image.

In the FAQ, the company also mentions Ashton Kutcher's efforts to change the Hollywood film market with generative AI. Filmmaker Tyler Perry, on the other hand, took the publication of Sora as an opportunity to stop expanding his film studio.

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