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Verified 20 October 2026

Outliers

Outliers (异类) is a Beijing film and television studio that describes itself as an end-to-end AI production company. It produced the AI anthology series "Loading" (新世界加载中) with Kuaishou's Kling AI.

It was founded by Chen Xiangyu (陈翔宇), a self-taught filmmaker who started as a set hand and lighting assistant. A 2025 Chinese profile puts its team at more than 60 people across Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, with engineers and content staff (directors, writers, cinematographers) now split about evenly. It began with scripts and project development, and commercial advertising kept it going: by 2022 it was turning out some fifty to sixty commercial spots a year.

The team moved from ChatGPT, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion in 2022 and 2023 to Kling AI for commercial-grade footage from 2024. Its short film "Lingshe" went from idea to release in about ten days. "Loading", a seven-episode series that premiered in Beijing on 25 June 2025, was co-produced by Kling AI and Kuaishou's Xingmang Short Drama with Outliers making it, and Chen Xiangyu was its chief director. Kling AI calls him a "super creator".