HONG KONG, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kuaishou Technology (“Kuaishou” or the “Company”; HKD Counter Stock Code: 01024 / RMB Counter Stock Code: 81024), a leading content community and social platform, announced today that its self-developed, globally leading video generation large model product, Kling AI, achieved monthly revenue exceeding USD20 Million in December 2025, corresponding to an Annualized Revenue Run Rate (ARR) of USD240 Million. This milestone, reached just 19 months after launch, marks another significant leap in ARR scale for Kling AI. It follows the model’s achievement of USD100 million ARR in March 2025, recorded only 10 months post-launch.

In early December 2025, Kling AI kicked off “Omni Launch Week,” unveiling a suite of new models within a single week, including “Kling Video O1,” the world’s first unified multimodal video model; “Kling Image O1,” a next-generation image model; “Kling Video 2.6,” featuring the “simultaneous audio-visual generation” capabilities; and Kling Digital Human 2.0. Notably, Kling Video O1 introduces innovative support for multimodal video editing and video referencing capabilities, while incorporating a robust subject library to significantly enhance character and object consistency during video generation.

The multiple new models released during the Kling Omni Launch Week maintain leading-edge and innovative comprehensive capabilities among global video generation large model products, earning widespread acclaim from professional creators and enterprise clients worldwide. This concentrated release of leading-edge new models within a single week not only demonstrates Kling AI’s deep technical foundation but also continues to set new industry benchmarks through a high-velocity iteration cycle, swiftly translating cutting-edge technological capabilities into tangible product advantages.

Kling AI’s innovations in foundational models and product features have paved the way for widespread commercial application across professional creative sectors, including marketing, e-commerce, film and television, short plays, animation, and gaming. As of December 2025, Kling AI serves over 60 million creators worldwide, having generated more than 600 million videos and established partnerships with over 30,000 enterprise users.

About Kuaishou

Kuaishou is a leading content community and social platform in China and globally, committed to becoming the most customer-obsessed company in the world. Kuaishou uses its technological backbone, powered by cutting-edge AI technology, to continuously drive innovation and product enhancements that enrich its service offerings and application scenarios, creating exceptional customer value. Through short videos and live streams on Kuaishou’s platform, users can share their lives, discover goods and services they need and showcase their talent. By partnering closely with content creators and businesses, Kuaishou provides technologies, products, and services that cater to diverse user needs across a broad spectrum of entertainment, online marketing services, e-commerce, local services, gaming, and much more.

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SINGAPORE, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Silicon Valley-based global open innovation platform Plug and Play is joining forces with Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator 2026. The Accelerator is a uniquely designed program for companies at any stage to accelerate the integration of their technologies that can help reduce the carbon impact of Amazon devices.

Plug and Play, with its vast global ecosystem of startups, corporates, and mentors, as well as a proven track record in designing and operating accelerator programs, brings valuable expertise in scaling climate technologies and fostering meaningful industry connections.

“Plug and Play focuses on helping the best startups move faster, from idea to impact,” said Saeed Amidi, Founder and CEO of Plug and Play. “At Plug and Play, one thing we’ve noticed is how hard it can be for great technologies to make the leap from pilot discussions to real adoption. We’ve worked with thousands of startups and hundreds of large enterprises, and we see how long timelines, complex decision layers, and uncertainty around next steps can stall even the most promising solutions. Through this partnership with the Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator, we’re giving tech companies the best chance for success by providing access to the connections and resources they need to scale.”

“We’re excited to partner with Amazon to support the growth of companies looking to make a real impact in reducing carbon emissions,” said Jupe Tan, Managing Partner of Plug and Play APAC. “Together with Amazon, we’ve built a different type of accelerator. One that focuses on senior leadership engagement, accelerated integration pathways, faster feedback loops, and measurable carbon-reduction outcomes – ensuring the right decision makers are in the room to assess opportunities for integration into millions of Amazon devices. Plug and Play will leverage our network and expertise to provide them with dedicated, hands-on guidance, presenting a unique opportunity to translate their ideas into scalable solutions that yield tangible results.”

Streamlining the path from validation to adoption opportunity, this program breaks down traditional industry barriers and accelerates collaboration between climate tech innovators and enterprise decision-makers. Participating companies will be equipped with skills and opportunities to explore potential collaborations with Amazon devices.

As part of the program, companies will engage with Amazon’s senior leadership and receive technical mentorship from Plug and Play’s venture team of engineering, sustainability, and manufacturing experts. The program structure includes bi-weekly progress reviews, weekly cohort office hours, and specialized workshops focused on technical integration and Amazon-specific processes. Plug and Play and Amazon will support participating companies in building their Integration Assessment document, including technical analysis, cost/benefit evaluation, and commercial viability assessment, leading up to their final pitch to senior leadership from Amazon Devices & Services. Additionally, eligible companies will receive up to $100,000 in AWS Activate Credits to build, grow, and scale. Companies do not have to give up any equity to participate in this program.

“The primary goal of our Climate Tech Accelerator is simple — to speed up efforts to reduce the carbon impact of our devices,” said Maiken Moeller-Hansen, Director, Energy & Sustainability, Amazon Devices & Services. “Participants will receive dedicated support from Amazon technical leaders, who will evaluate and help validate the deployment potential of their technologies. This is a unique and collaborative program that resembles how Amazon works—we’re excited to work with participants in the 2026 cohort, and excited about the potential to accelerate the inclusion of climate-friendly technologies in our devices.”

The program’s inaugural cohort in 2025 comprised 14 companies of various stages, each developing technologies to reduce device and supply-chain emissions.

“As a publicly traded company, developing strategic enterprise accounts is critical. This program condensed three to four years of pitching and validating into six months. It gave us a more direct path to engage with Amazon’s technical and leadership teams,” says 2025 cohort participant Ronnie Tao, VP of Sales, Amprius Technologies, which manufactures advanced silicon batteries that deliver greater energy and power density.

“For companies at that next growth inflection point, this is a great program. We’ve shipped a million units over eight years to hundreds of customers. But there’s a gray zone for companies like ours — too established for traditional company programs, but not yet at consumer electronics scale for enterprise partnerships. This accelerator bridges that gap.” Mike Casper, Co-founder & CEO, Azumo, a display technology company and a 2025 cohort participant.

“Being immersed in the mechanisms that Amazon has used to go from a bookstore to launching rockets, that alone is incredibly insightful. That’s been the most surprising thing about the program, the openness with which Amazon has shared their processes and tools with us — enabling us to collaborate seamlessly using the same decision-making frameworks.” Mark Herrema, Co-Founder & CEO, Aircarbon, a company making a biomaterial made from air and greenhouse gas, a 2025 Accelerator participant.

The Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator is open to companies in the following sectors:

• Displays: Innovations that can decarbonize displays or components that support them across initial design, manufacturing, customer usage, and recycling.
• Printed Circuit Boards and Assemblies (PCBs and PCBAs): Innovations for PCBs and PCBAs that can increase material usage efficiency and waste reduction, such as biodegradable PCBs and additive manufacturing processes.
• Low Carbon Materials: Innovations that significantly reduce carbon emissions in device components, plastics (PC and PC/ABS), textiles, and packaging materials, with a focus on sustainable alternatives to styrofoam and other high-impact packaging materials. Examples include sustainable polymers, recycled materials, bio-based alternatives, and low-carbon manufacturing processes.
• Semiconductors: Innovations that reduce the environmental impact of semiconductor manufacturing, including energy-efficient fabrication processes, sustainable materials for chip production, and technologies that can increase lifetime and enable reuse or minimize water usage, chemical waste, and emissions from semiconductor facilities.
• Device Batteries: Innovations for Amazon device batteries that can increase recycled content, promote efficiency, extend battery life, and/or reduce their manufacturing footprint.
• Energy efficiency: Innovations that can reduce energy needs on displays, cameras, and speakers. Examples are sensors, microphones, networking equipment, and other components impacting power consumption.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI Innovations that can unlock new pathways to optimize product life cycle energy consumption and product carbon footprint. Examples include identifying alternative design and manufacturing techniques, enabling more energy-efficient product use, improving data collection and lifecycle assessment (LCA) for emissions measurement, extending hardware lifetime, and enhancing circularity through repairability, recyclability, and reuse.
• Circularity: Innovations that can facilitate Amazon’s shift towards closed-loop materials management and a more circular economy for Amazon devices and data center hardware, such as product lifetime expansion, and recovery and reuse of critical components (e.g., magnets, batteries, PCBs, lithium, copper, nickel), and advanced robotics and AI-enabled processes for component extraction and refurbishment.
• Manufacturing Processes: Innovations in manufacturing processes that transform traditional factories into smart, sustainable operations through advanced digital technologies and flexible automation. Examples are digital twin simulations that can reduce the number of builds and support MFG (Manufacturing Technology), standardized eco-friendly adhesive and primer applications, factory footprint reduction opportunities, and reconfigurable robotics and adjustable machine fixtures to reduce the need for multiple specialized fixtures.

The deadline for applications is 24 February 2026. Successful applicants will kick off the program in May 2026 with a launch event in Hong Kong SAR.

Interested companies can apply online here.

About Plug and Play 

Plug and Play is the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we’re present in 60+ locations across five continents. We offer corporate innovation programs and help our corporate partners in every stage of their innovation journey, from education to execution. We also organize startup acceleration programs and have built an in-house VC to drive innovation across multiple industries, where we’ve invested in hundreds of successful companies, including Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi. 

Our Asia Pacific headquarters was launched in Singapore in 2010, and we are now present in five cities in Southeast Asia with additional locations in China, Japan, Korea and India. We work closely with both the public and private sectors with programs, innovation initiatives, and startup investments across the region. 

For more information, visit https://www.plugandplayapac.com 

Delivering global market leadership through IoT connectivity innovation, ecosystem scale, and customer-centric execution

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that Aeris, a global leader in cellular connectivity platforms and solutions, has been recognized with the 2025 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition in the IoT Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) industry for its outstanding achievements in strategic innovation, market execution, and customer value enhancement. This recognition highlights Aeris’ consistent leadership in enabling secure, scalable, and intelligent IoT connectivity solutions that support the rapidly transforming global IoT ecosystem for enterprises, mobile network operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy innovation and customer impact. Aeris excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align strategic initiatives with market demand while executing them with efficiency, consistency, and scale.

“What truly differentiates Aeris is the scale and maturity of its partner and customer ecosystem already using its IoT SGP.32-enabled solution. This scale is evident as Aeris manages nearly 100 million IoT connections across 190 countries, cementing its role in global IoT enablement. This strategic position strengthens Aeris’s role in global IoT enablement and ensures it remains at the forefront of interoperable, scalable, and secure eSIM solutions for businesses across regions. By harnessing this extensive network of Tier 1 partners, Aeris is driving the industry’s transition toward next-generation IoT connectivity management,” said Cecilia Perez, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy focused on global expansion, innovation acceleration, and nearly 30 customer partnerships, Aeris has shown its ability to adapt and lead in a rapidly evolving landscape. The company’s strategic agility and sustained investment in IoT connectivity, eSIM orchestration, and advanced analytics have enabled it to scale effectively across international markets. Additionally, Aeris continues to lead the Automotive industry, currently working with more than 50 automotive industry OEMs who leverage Aeris and connect more than 31 million vehicles around the world.

Innovation remains central to Aeris’s approach including an Agentic AI strategy Its suite of IoT connectivity management solutions addresses the full spectrum of enterprise, mobile network operators and OEMs’ needs, offering unified global visibility, flexible multi-network support, enhanced security, and advanced automation.

Growth & Market Leadership

In 2023, Aeris accelerated its market presence through the acquisition of Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator and Connected Vehicle Cloud businesses, further cementing its 25-year legacy in the industry. Today, Aeris supports nearly 100 million managed IoT connections worldwide, serving more than 6,900 companies, and providing connectivity through agreements with 600 global carriers, which demonstrates Aeris’s leadership in enabling secure and scalable global IoT programs.

“This recognition validates our strategy to build the most trusted, secure, and scalable IoT connectivity platform in the world,” said Jonathan Connet, Chief Product Officer, Aeris. “It reflects the tremendous work by our Aeris team helping customers and partners simplify deployments, accelerate transformation, and protect data in an increasingly complex environment. We continue to accelerate our innovation in agentic AI and other value-added services for our growing IoT ecosystem.” Aeris’s unwavering commitment to customer experience further strengthens its position in the market. By streamlining service delivery, enabling intuitive self-service through next-generation portals, and ensuring consistently high service availability, the company continues to meet the needs of its expanding global customer base. Its partner-led delivery framework and emphasis on localized support have been instrumental in delivering value across diverse verticals, including automotive, utilities and energy, fleet management and logistics, medical devices, and manufacturing.

Frost & Sullivan commends Aeris for setting a high standard in competitive strategy, execution, and market responsiveness. The company’s vision, innovation pipeline, and customer-first mindset are reshaping the future of IoT connectivity management and driving measurable, large-scale impact across the global IoT ecosystem.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition to a company that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market share, customer satisfaction, and competitive positioning. The recognition spotlights forward-thinking organizations that are redefining their sectors through bold innovation and growth excellence.

The full report can be viewed here.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Recognition
Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.

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About Aeris
For more than three decades, Aeris has been a trusted cellular IoT leader enabling the biggest IoT programs and opportunities across automotive, utilities and energy, fleet management and logistics, medical devices, and manufacturing. Our IoT technology expertise serves a global ecosystem of 7,000 enterprise customers, nearly 30 mobile network operator partners, and nearly 100 million IoT devices across the world. Aeris, the largest orchestrator of eSIMs for IoT, powers today’s connected smart world with innovative technologies and borderless connectivity that simplify management, enhance security, optimize performance, and drive growth at scale. To learn how Aeris IoT Accelerator Platform, Aeris IoT Watchtower, and Aeris Mobility Suite can secure and supercharge your critical IoT programs, visit aeris.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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