Kuaishou's Kling AI reached a 300 million annualized revenue run rate in January 2026 and is raising 3 billion at an $18 billion valuation ahead of a Hong Kong listing — the first Chinese AI application to prove recurring global revenue at scale, even as OpenAI retired its rival Sora. The bottleneck has moved past model research: it is now the multilingual commercial and creative-market leaders who can grow AI video revenue across Tokyo, Seoul, London and Los Angeles. A recruitment specialist at SunTzu Recruit describes a shortage that has become structural.
In recent years, the shortage of artificial intelligence (AI) professionals has become a pressing issue for […]