Kling 4.0 Flash

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1. 16h
   Kling valued near $18B as Kuaishou restructures ahead of a possible 2027 IPO

   Kuaishou's video-generation unit Kling has reportedly raised about $3 billion at a post-money valuation of roughly $18 billion and has picked underwriters for a Hong Kong listing as early as 2027, according to TMTPost. On Sept. 30 Kuaishou said senior vice president Yu Yue would become Kling's full-time CEO while founder Cheng Yixiao took over its community science line; under an earlier restructuring plan Kuaishou's stake would be diluted from 100% to about 68.33%, with Yu receiving 3% of equity carrying ten votes per share plus 1% in options. Kling's second-quarter revenue topped 850 million yuan, up more than 200% year on year, while Kuaishou group revenue grew just 1.4%; on Artificial Analysis's audio-enabled text-to-video leaderboard as of Oct. 15, Kling 3.0 Omni and 3.0 Pro ranked 15th and 16th, and Kling 4.0 Flash opened to some annual-plan users in late September with a full release planned this month.

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   Kling 4.0 launches globally with up to 30-second video generation

   Kling AI said Kling 4.0 became fully available on klingai.com on the evening of Oct 15, and parent Kuaishou's shares opened more than 5% higher the next day. The model natively generates up to 30 seconds of video in one pass with long takes and continuous narrative, native stereo audio, up to 10 keyframes, and up to 15 reference items (10 images, 5 videos, 7 subjects), with prompt input raised to 8,000 tokens. Kling says 4K/1080p 10-bit HDR output and 21:9 framing are coming, video extension can reach two minutes, and the model is available through MCP and CLI with enterprise API access to open "soon"; fal said Kling 4.0 is coming soon to its platform.

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   AI video price war: Vidu Q4 Preview cuts to ¥0.09/second

   Chinese AI video model makers released new flagship versions and slashed prices in late September and early October. On Sept 28, Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 entered beta with native clips of up to 30 seconds and 4K output, alongside a lightweight Kling 4.0 Flash pitched on fast generation and cost-efficiency, though API pricing has not been disclosed; on Oct 8, Shengshu Technology launched Vidu Q4 Preview with support for 15 reference images and 3 reference audio clips, 4K output and a starting price of ¥0.09 per second, with the company estimating up to about five times more output for the same budget. By contrast, ByteDance's new Seedance flagships cost at least 50% more than the previous generation, at ¥46 per million tokens for Seedance 2.0 720P no-reference generation versus ¥70 for Seedance 2.5 at the same setting. The article argues that as one-pass generation success rates rose — up to roughly 90% for Seedance 2.0 per a BOC International research note it cites, versus an earlier industry average of about 20% — the competition is shifting from raw capability toward price-performance and fit with production workflows.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 3

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