DeepMind Alums Launch Haiper, an AI Video Generation Startup Raising $19 Million
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Deepmind alums Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang have launched Haiper, an AI video generation tool and startup.
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Haiper has raised $19.2 million in seed funding from investors like Octopus Ventures and Geoffrey Hinton.
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The tool allows users to generate short HD and lower quality videos from text prompts for free. Commercial use cases are also being explored.
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Haiper aims to build a core generative video model that can be offered to developers and others down the line.
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The startup faces competition from tools like OpenAI's Sora and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion Video, but has expertise in areas like fixing the uncanny valley problem.