Kuaishou (Kling)

Kuaishou trains the Kling family of generative video and image models using its short-video data and expertise, serving creators, advertisers and developers through consumer tools and APIs. It launched Kling publicly in June 2024 and shipped Kling 3.0 in February 2026.

Ecosystem functionA proprietary short-video corpus gives it a training-data advantage no standalone video startup can match.

Business modelConsumer platform and generative APIs