Kling (Kuaishou)

Kling is an AI video generation model developed by Kuaishou, one of China's largest short-video platforms. Kling generates high-quality video clips from text prompts and images, competing with Western counterparts like Runway, Luma Labs, and Sora (OpenAI).

Kling represents the Chinese frontier in generative media—alongside Alibaba's Qwen in language models and DeepSeek in reasoning, Kling demonstrates that the foundation model race is global, not limited to Silicon Valley.

In the Seven Layers of the Agentic Economy, Kling sits at Layer 4: Foundation Models & Intelligence, in the Generative Media subcategory.