Sora’s lead in the generative video space is already in jeopardy, and Meta’s highly anticipated AI hasn’t even been released yet. On Wednesday, Chinese tech titan Kuaishou Technology announced that its Kling AI video-generation system is now available to users around the globe.
Kling had officially launched in China last month, but was only available for users in the country and required a Chinese phone number to access. With the global rollout, users simply need to provide an email address — and a fair amount of patience.
Here we go! Kling AI is now available globally.
People have been already creating wild AI videos.
1. Grannypic.twitter.com/9n6MB4jOYK
— Min Choi (@minchoi) July 24, 2024
The model is capable of generating high-definition video clips up to two minutes in length — double what Sora will reportedly be able to produce — at 30 frames per second (fps) and 720p resolution. Kling offers a 2,000-character context window and can receive both text and image inputs to create a quick 5-second clip. Users can then consecutively extend their videos by 4.5 seconds at a time, according to the company’s website. The Kuaishou team wrote on X that users will receive 66 credits per day. Each video generation will cost 10 credits. The team is also reportedly developing a subscription model.
Despite its impressive generative capabilities, Kling is limited in what it can produce. Specifically, it’s unable to generate videos of a politically sensitive nature. According to a TechCrunch report Thursday, prompts like “Democracy in China,” “Chinese President Xi Jinping walking down the street” and “Tienanmen Square protests” return nonspecific error messages. However, users are still able to upload and animate images of the same subjects without issue, so long as the user didn’t name the subject specifically in their prompt.
The Financial Times noted earlier this month that China’s primary internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), plans to begin purity testing of AI systems developed in-country to ensure they “embody core socialist values” on a variety of sensitive topics. Those include criticism of the Communist Party and President Xi Jinping himself.
Kling is also severely limited, at least currently, in how quickly it can produce content. A five-second clip can take as much as 15 minutes or more to generate. Even getting the system to send an email verification code took inordinately long. It’s not clear, however, if that lag is due to underlying infrastructure issues or simply enormous user demand as folks rush to try out the new AI.
Kling isn’t the only AI to rival Sora. Runway released its Gen-3 video AI, which is capable of creating clips up to 10 seconds in length, earlier this month. That followed Luma Labs’ debut of Dream Machine in June, which saw similar performance issues when users overloaded the platform at launch.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.