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Chinese short-video and live-streaming platform operator, also known for developing the Kling AI video-generation model.
Kuaishou's Kling AI team announced Kling 4.0 on September 28 with 30-second clips, up to 10 keyframes and up to 15 Omni Reference inputs. A dev.to explainer describes the input as a shot list plus a reference set, though the full model is not public yet.
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RoseBerry Media is using an AI workflow to recut two late-2000s Neighbours storylines into vertical clips for the Epis app. Variety called them microdramas, but The Verge ties that label to cheap, phone-first cliffhanger shows, so teams sizing the category should count recuts on their own.
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State broadcaster CCTV says the average minute of AI short drama in China fell from about 5,000 yuan to a few hundred in the first half of 2026. Local governments pay part of the compute and rent behind it, so buyers cannot yet tell the lasting saving from the subsidy.
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OpenAI's own deprecations page lists four cutoffs between 24 September and 23 October 2026. Finding out whether they touch your code takes one look at the Usage dashboard, in an account plenty of buyers cannot sign into.
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Rhodium Group's tally of Chinese AI model revenue comes to about $10.5 billion against $105 billion for OpenAI and Anthropic. Two of the Chinese startups now heading for listings carry the highest revenue multiples in the set.
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The Supreme People's Court says an AI double made or shared without the subject's agreement is an infringement, and providers share the liability once they have been notified. Likeness clearance becomes a budget line, not a lawsuit.
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Alibaba's capital spending rose 75% and it blamed chip component prices as well as volume. Its payback math needs the shortage to hold until 2030.
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Goldman Sachs and Intel are funding a company whose founder says broadcast-quality video fell from $100,000 to $500 a minute. The enterprise revenue mix is the part to read closely.
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