ByteBrief
We're a portrait publication through and through. Turn your phone back and your briefing picks up right where you left it.
(We tried widescreen once. It wasn't us.)

Chinese tech company Kuaishou spun off its Kling AI unit to raise an initial two billion dollars in venture capital funding ahead of a planned 2027 IPO. Tencent joined the round, valuing the video generation business at roughly eighteen billion dollars post-money while annual recurring revenue reached five hundred million dollars.
Tap to vote and see what everyone thinks.
Summary by ByteBrief

Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Tripo AI raises another $150M

Global VC Funding Hits Record $510B In H1 2026