Kuaishou plans $20B IPO for Kling AI video unit in 2027

Kuaishou Technology, the Chinese short-video platform, is reportedly planning to spin off its Kling AI video generation unit as an independent company and take it public by 2027. The target valuation: $20 billion.

Kuaishou’s own market capitalization sat at roughly $25 billion as of April 2026. Spinning off an AI subsidiary at nearly 80% of your parent company’s value is either a bold statement about where future growth lives, or an exercise in creative accounting.

The Kling AI backstory

Kling AI launched in June 2024 with a straightforward pitch: type in text, get back a high-quality video. The tool generates 1080p videos up to two minutes long, which placed it squarely in competition with OpenAI’s Sora and Runway’s suite of video models.

Why a spin-off, and why now

By separating Kling into its own entity, Kuaishou could theoretically unlock what analysts estimate to be $5 billion to $10 billion in additional shareholder value.

What this means for investors

The $20 billion target valuation would make Kling one of the most valuable standalone AI companies globally before it has even proven itself as an independent business, as a unit that’s less than three years old.

Chinese tech companies pursuing IPOs face a regulatory environment that has been unpredictable at best and hostile at worst over the past several years. The 2027 timeline gives Kuaishou some runway, but regulatory delays have derailed more certain deals than this one.

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