Kuaishou sets up an enterprise AI unit as Yu Yue takes over Kling AI as CEO
Kling AI is elevated under a dedicated CEO, signaling Kuaishou is raising the business weight of its AI video unit
Kuaishou issued an internal announcement on September 30: founder and CEO Cheng Yixiao will additionally head the community science line, while Yu Yue, the line's previous head, becomes director and CEO of Kling AI.
Kling AI is Kuaishou's AI video generation business, which Cheng called the core of the company's AI strategy in an all-staff letter. Kuaishou also created a cross-divisional virtual organization, Enterprise AI Productivity, to oversee general agents, the enterprise context system and internal information systems.
The move lifts the head of its AI video business to subsidiary-CEO level, a concrete signal that Kuaishou is weighting the business for commercial operation; actual resource commitments remain to be seen.