Kunlun Tech, an online game publisher, has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that it claims can produce short dramas, the latest example of a Chinese company seeking to make money from AI-generated content.
Skyreels, the “world’s first AI reel platform,” can generate scripts, characters, plots, storyboards, dialogues and music to create a short video, according to a demo of the product’s user interface and a statement posted by Shenzhen-listed Kunlun Tech on its WeChat account on Monday.
The platform is based on Kunlun’s own large language models (LLMs) and can generate videos up to 180 seconds long each, according to the Beijing-based company, outperforming industry leader OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool, which can create 60-second clips.
Numerous Chinese companies are exploring ways to develop useful tools powered by generative AI, making the country one of the most competitive markets for AI apps. Kunlun Tech has already launched an AI streaming music platform and a music creation tool called Mureka.
Kunlun Tech was founded in 2008 and is locally known for online games such as Dream factory for girls And History of WuxiaAfter going public on the ChiNext stock exchange in Shenzhen in 2015, the company expanded into social networking and entertainment. It operates in overseas markets, including Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Last year, the company had an average of nearly 400 million monthly active users worldwide, with international sales accounting for 86 percent of total revenue, according to its annual financial report.
Kunlun Tech launched its first LLM, Skywork, in April 2023 and expanded its AI products into web search, music, video games and video. By May of this year, the company had more than 1 million daily active users.
“The possibilities of customer-centric products are unprecedented as AI has significantly reduced the cost of content creation,” said Fang Han, CEO of Kunlun Tech, in an interview with Chinese media in June.
He said the company will continue to work on AI products to enable users to create entertainment content.
