Kling AI Launches Global Anthology Series ‘Loading…’ on YouTube

Kling AI, the generative video platform developed by Chinese tech firm Kuaishou, is debuting its seven-part anthology series Loading… globally on YouTube starting July 2.

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Episodes will be released twice weekly, each accompanied by a behind-the-scenes interview with the creators.

The series, produced in partnership with Beijing-based studio Outliers, showcases a wide range of visual styles and genres, drawing comparisons to Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots.

Human creators wrote and directed all episodes, using Kling’s AI video engine for production. Select episodes used real actors for facial capture, while dialogue was voiced by human actors and refined with licensed voice models.

Loading… premiered theatrically on June 25 at Emperor Cinemas in Beijing, screening on an IMAX screen—an uncommon move for AI-generated films due to the high visual scrutiny such formats demand.

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Outliers founder and executive producer Chen Xiangyu led the project, directing several shorts and supervising all seven. The studio handled core creative work in-house, bringing in specialists like art directors and editors as needed.

The anthology includes:

- Martin Syndrome: A father who body-switches every 24 hours tries to save his daughter across centuries

- The Galactic Gut: A satirical sci-fi tale of a recipe mistaken for alien tech

- Sweet Dreams: A humanoid werewolf sabotages a cyberpunk lab

- The Utopia Taoyuan: Refugees encounter a mystical village during a famine

- Traveler and the Tiger: A fable of betrayal between a boy and a tiger

- Unforgivable: A Japanese boy’s complicity in WWII war crimes

- Ambivalence: A scientist activates a powerful AI to defend Earth from aliens

Each short uses a distinct visual approach, from claymation to photorealistic 3D. Custom workflows were built for each, integrating Kling’s AI tools at different stages.

“We chose an anthology format so we could test the full expressive range of Kling,” said Chen. “We wanted to see how far we could push it in terms of style, continuity, performance, and genre.”

Kling AI’s video model, first released in June 2024, has undergone over 20 major updates. Version 2.1, released in May 2025, improved image quality and animation speed. A five-second 1080p video now takes under a minute to generate.

Heather Cooper, who worked on Amazon’s King David series, praised Kling for its reliability and ease of use. “Kling follows prompts well and it can generate smooth static shots for LED walls and backgrounds, or high-speed, complex motion,” she said.

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Kling’s development team highlighted the model’s ability to maintain character consistency, sync lips to dialogue, and generate complex motion without visual artifacts—key features for making Loading… viable.

Beyond the series, Kling is building a broader creator ecosystem. Its “Bring Your Vision to Screen” campaign, launched in April 2025, received over 2,000 submissions from 60 countries. Winning entries were displayed on public screens in cities including Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Toronto.

The company’s “NextGen Initiative” offers funding, promotional support, and branding help for independent creators. In late 2024, Kling also launched a co-creation programme with directors Jia Zhangke and Timmy Yip.

Kling AI currently serves over 22 million users and is integrated into products and services by more than 10,000 companies. While its U.S. presence remains limited, the YouTube release of Loading… is expected to expand its international reach.

Outliers is continuing work on additional episodes, and Kling may open its proprietary AI production workflow later this year. “We’re still experimenting,” said Li Yang, Kling’s Head of Product and Operations. “But we’re learning quickly. And we’re not doing it alone.”

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• Kling AI’s anthology series Loading… launches globally on YouTube from July 2

• Seven episodes explore diverse genres and visual styles using AI tools

• The series premiered on an IMAX screen in Beijing on June 25

Source: FORBES