Chinese short video giant Kuaishou Technology on Tuesday unveiled an upgraded version of its Kling video generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, touting it as “the world’s most powerful” as competition intensifies in the race to develop video-generating models.
“This is the most powerful video-generation model available for you to use in the world,” Kuaishou senior vice-president Gai Kun said at the unveiling of Kling AI 2.0 during a corporate event in Beijing.
Kling now has more than 22 million global users who have generated over 168 million video clips and 344 million images, according to Gai.
Kuaishou is among a group of Chinese Big Tech firms rushing to claim new advances in AI tools capable of producing video, following developments from TikTok owner ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding, as Chinese firms jostle for attention against OpenAI’s Sora and Google DeepMind’s Veo 2. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
Gai said the upgraded model has made improvements in areas such as instruction-following, prompt understanding, image and movement quality, as well as in the realistic and aesthetic feel of generated clips.
Kuaishou, which is ByteDance’s main short video rival in China, unveiled the new model just months after introducing the last generation of Kling models at the end of last year.