Kuaishou’s AI Video Generator Goes Global, Challenging OpenAI’s Sora
- Kling AI, Kuaishou’s AI video generator, is now available globally, providing text-to-video and image-plus-text-to-video generation.
- Users receive 66 free daily credits for video creation, with support for multiple video resolutions and multilingual prompts.
- Kling AI’s performance highlights strengths in realistic video generation but shows areas for improvement in style-specific tasks.
Kuaishou’s Kling AI has officially launched globally, expanding beyond its initial China-only availability. This move opens up the AI video generator platform to users worldwide, accessible through KlingAI.com. Registration is straightforward, requiring only an email address, and users are rewarded with 66 free daily credits for video creation.
Versatile and Accessible Video Generation
Kling AI supports both text-to-video and image-plus-text-to-video generation, positioning itself as a competitor to OpenAI‘s Sora, which is still limited to select users. Kling AI’s capabilities include generating videos in multiple resolutions: a 960×960 square format, 720p landscape, and 720p portrait mode. Additionally, it offers camera control features, allowing users to choose from various camera movements such as static, horizontal, vertical, pan, tilt, or rolling.
Multilingual support is built into Kling AI, with tests confirming high-quality results for prompts in both English and Mandarin. This feature enhances its appeal to a global audience, enabling users to create videos in their preferred language.
Performance and Flexibility
Kling AI’s video generation speed is noteworthy. On average, it takes about 5 minutes to produce a video, translating to roughly 1 minute per second of video at 30fps. This speed is impressive compared to traditional AI image generators, which can take several seconds to produce a single high-resolution image.
The platform allows users to adjust the balance between creativity and relevance, tailoring the output to their needs. Favoring relevance ensures the video closely adheres to the prompt, while leaning towards creativity can result in more imaginative and visually striking content. Kling AI also supports negative prompts, which can help enhance accuracy by specifying what should be avoided in the video generation process.
Head-to-Head with OpenAI’s Sora
In direct comparisons, Kling AI has shown it can hold its own against OpenAI’s Sora. For example, when tasked with generating a scene of wolf pups playing on a gravel road, Kling AI produced a realistic video with three wolves, avoiding the fusion issues that plagued Sora’s output. However, Kling AI’s output was less dynamic, highlighting an area for potential improvement.
Kling AI’s performance in illustrative tasks was mixed. A prompt for an anime-style cyberpunk samurai resulted in a 3D animation instead of the requested 2D anime style. Despite this, the key elements of the prompt were accurately depicted, showcasing Kling AI’s attention to detail.
The platform excelled in generating realistic sci-fi scenarios. A prompt for a female robot in a futuristic city yielded a highly realistic scene with consistent visuals and minimal artifacts. However, Kling AI struggled with generating fine patterns involving thin parallel lines and exhibited some issues with leg movements in specific frames.
Limitations and Future Updates
Kling AI stumbled when animating images with minimal details. For instance, a simple cartoon mascot struggled with consistency, particularly in the morphing of the eyes. Nonetheless, the results were satisfactory enough for post-processing improvements. Enhancing relevancy settings and using more powerful negative prompts could potentially improve the model’s accuracy.
Kuaishou plans to introduce advanced features in future updates, including high-quality mode for full HD video production, extended generation times, end frame additions in image-to-video conversions, and different camera movements. A subscription program offering increased daily generation credits is also in the works.
Content Restrictions and Global Strategy
Kling AI enforces content restrictions, preventing the generation of violent scenes, depictions of famous people, or NSFW content. This aligns with responsible AI usage guidelines and ensures the platform is suitable for a wide range of users.
The global launch of Kling AI mirrors strategies employed by other major Chinese tech companies. Kuaishou has set up an international web portal at KlingAI.com while retaining the original Chinese version at kling.kuaishou.com. This dual approach is similar to the branding strategies of TikTok (Douyin in China) and WeChat (Weixin domestically).
Kling AI’s global launch marks a significant step in making advanced AI video generation accessible to users worldwide. With its versatile features, multilingual support, and competitive performance, Kling AI is poised to challenge existing players like OpenAI’s Sora. While there are areas for improvement, Kuaishou’s commitment to continuous development and user engagement suggests a promising future for Kling AI in the evolving landscape of AI-driven content creation.