I tested out a buzzy new text-to-video AI model from China

The short-video platform, which has over 600 million active users, announced the new tool on June 6. Like OpenAI's Sora model, Kling is able to generate videos "up to two minutes long with a frame rate of 30fps and video resolution up to 1080p," the company says on its website. But unlike Sora, which still remains inaccessible to the public four months after OpenAI trialed it, Kling soon started letting people try the model themselves. I got access to it after downloading Kuaishou's video-editing tool, signing up with a Chinese number, getting on a waitlist, and filling out an additional form through Kuaishou's user feedback groups. The model can't process prompts written entirely in English, but you can get around that by either translating the phrase you want to use into Chinese or including one or two Chinese words.