OpenAI kills Sora while Kling AI hits $300M annual revenue—the monetization gap is real

OpenAI shut down Sora on March 25th due to unsustainable compute costs, but on the same day, Kuaishou's Kling AI announced it hit a $300 million annualized revenue rate—proving Chinese video model providers have cracked the monetization code that Western competitors can't match. We break down why the infrastructure economics are so different and what this shift means for the future of AI video generation.