After TikTok, Chinese businesses like Kling ramp up AI for video

Kuaishou’s Kling AI platform creates video from text and still images.
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Beijing-China’s video-heavy entertainment world has given a series of data for companies-and now they are increasing artificial intelligence tools to make money to create ads and movie clips.
TIKTOK Parent Byttteance keeps the first and third points in the research company Artificial analysis‘The high-level text-video productive AI models started in the last two months. Google organizes the second and fourth points, Beijing -based short video application Kuaishou’s Kling Ai is fifth.
“Despite some consolidations in other parts of the AI industry, UBS Securities China Internet analyst Wei Xiong said,” AI video production models have emerged at an earlier stage and some Chinese companies have emerged as early leaders in this field. “
“We believe that AI video production has the potential to reshape the content industry,” he said, “increasing production efficiency, reducing the obstacles to creation, and unlocking new money -making models.”
With such AI tools, users can upload a single picture or multiple pictures and direct AI to create a video clip based on them. Other tools allow users to enter the text in which AI will create a video clip.
More than 20,000 businesses from advertisers to film animators, Beijing -based company, claimed this week at the World AI conference in Shanghai this week. The latest version, the Kling 2.1, can automatically add relevant audio effects to match the video created by AI.
Not only for users in China.
“The user scale is calculating the majority abroad, whether the user is commercial income,” he told CNBC in Mandarin, surrounded by CNBC. He said. The company said it plans to increase the support of the vehicle in Japan, South Korea and Europe.
“This is something we observe, AI big models are increasingly globalized,” he said. “People don’t care which country is the product.”
Kuaishou claimed Kling Ai More than 150 million yuan ($ 20.83 million) earned income In the first three months of the year, daily advertising expenditures to productive AI vehicles became 30 million Yuan during this time. The company has not yet announced when to publish its second quarter results. Zeng refused to share Kling Ai’s model training costs.
While the cost of reduced production means a “big” market, UBS ‘Xiong, “Current model capabilities are restricted by clip length, consistency of movement and controllability.” He said.
Chinese video AI companies face competition from the United States beyond the restrictions of Trump administration’s access to advanced semiconductors to educate China’s AI models.
Amazon And Google Vehicles started to create a video From images or text. Bulletins Microsoft-Backed Openai launched the video production model Sora in December to Chatgpt subscribers -About a year after you announced your abilities in February 2024.
However, the Kling AI had already begun the public in June 2024. Users buy subscribers and credit to create a video.
Vidu, a rival vehicle of Beijing -based initiative, was launched about 12 months ago and said that around March this year, the user expects $ 20 million annually compared to subscription fees.
“Chinese firms, Chinese firms, companies, tend to identify a commercial ‘pain point’ … ACI,” Paul Triololo, Chinese Vice President and Senior Vice President of China at the DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group. He said.
China drew attention to how Startup 3DStyle uses productive AI to design new clothing styles and integrate them with internet connection, automatic production.
Triololo said that US companies also apply AI to certain industries, but that Chinese enterprises are able to recruit a very competitive environment and can recruit artificial intelligence faster because they can recruit a “very qualified” local software engineer.
‘AI as a filmmaker’
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba This week, the video creating AI model of the latest version of the trend remained on the trend. WAN2.2. The company claimed that with an open source model, users can control the lighting, the clock of the day, color tone, camera angle, frame size, composition and focus length.
Open source allows users to download a model free of charge and customize the products if they do not commercialize. Alibaba, in February since the open sources of the “Wan” model series, the hugging of models from the face platform of more than 5.4 million and a similar model called Modelcope in China has been downloaded.
“In the film, the AI age is over. We entered the AI age as a filmmaker.” He said. Authority pointed out that China’s population of 1.4 billion gives “tremendous” video monitoring data to local companies.
“Just as Tiktok bought global markets with short videos in the mobile internet age, Chinese AI companies can lead the productive AI revolution in visual digital entertainment,” he said.
Avatarlar and Game
Chinese companies also create AI tools for more than creating videos.
Last week, Baidu During a live broadcast session of more than six hours of interactive live broadcasting session in June, the newest AI -supported digital human technology, which sold $ 7.65 million, will be released in October for a wider industrial use.
In 3D visualization, Coil He released the Hunyuan world model to create digital panoramic images of scenes created from text and visual demands. Visuals use a “mesh” file form that player developers can then use to edit certain parts of the image.
“Beyond support [Tencent’s] The platform, which is internal development teams, shows the ambition of standardizing Tencent’s high -loyal game asset production and expanding China’s influence in the game development environment. “He said.
Niko found that more than half of the game development studios in China have already used AI for content production and reduces the development time and costs.
However, game development reflects more difficulties in using AI to create videos and graphics.
“Although it is high,” AI, “Ahmad said,” We have already seen a reaction to the games that implement technology badly. “