Ai Kelin and Ji Mengai: Sora’s competitor, a Chinese-made video generator, is coming

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They are the two giants of China: Kuaishou and Bytedance. We know the second one well, as he is the publisher of TikTok. The first one has developed a short video application that is very popular in China and is a competitor of TikTok. They also entered the field of generative AI with two services for making videos using text. In essence, they are attempts to compete with OpenAi’s Sora and other Western video generators. The idea is the same. Users provide texts that describe the scene they want to create, and the AI ​​is responsible for translating these words into moving images. Let’s see what they can do.

How Kling Ai works.

For a few weeks now, it has been possible to open an account in Italy and try it for free. Kling AI by Kuaishou allows users to create videos up to 10 seconds long in 1080P resolution and 30 frames per second, while the context window allows up to 2,000 characters.

There are limits, you get about sixty credits per day to generate videos from text to video (text to video) and from image to text (image to video). A 5 second video takes 10 credits. But it can generate videos that last several minutes. There is a pricing plan if you want to use it more. I tried it for a few days and although it speaks multiple languages, it had trouble understanding what you wanted. Even writing prompts in English.

Reading the site, we find out that it was born as a simulator of the physical world, that is, it simulates the laws of physics. In reality, he does not always succeed. Technically, it is well made and the video quality is high, but it is no better than Dream Machine or Sora. At least if we compare what they have produced so far.

How does Jimeng AI work?

It was available to Chinese users as early as July 31. In China, it is available through its subsidiary Faceu Technology. We know that it offers a subscription plan priced at 69 yuan (about 10 US dollars) per month or 659 yuan per year, allowing users to create 2,050 AI-generated images or 168 videos every 30 days. Currently, Jimeng AI is a standalone application in ByteDance’s portfolio, and in the future it may decide to integrate it into its ecosystem, including the social network TikTok.