The AI Video Apps Gaining Ground After OpenAI’s Sora Shutdown

A week after OpenAI said it would shutter its artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, rival tools like Kling AI and RunwayML are already gaining ground.

Kling AI, a video generator app owned by China’s Kuaishou Technology, saw global weekly active users jump 4% to an average of 2.6 million last week from the prior week, according to iOS and Android data that market intelligence firm Sensor Tower shared with Bloomberg News.

Even before OpenAI said it would shut down Sora, Kling AI was leading in global monthly active users, averaging 7.8 million in March compared with 4.7 million for Sora. (The ...