AI Video Startup HeyGen Valued at $500M in Funding Round

HeyGen, an AI startup that lets users quickly create realistic-looking avatars, just announced a $60 million Series A led by Benchmark, valuing the company at more than $500 million dollars. HeyGen co-founder and CEO Joshua Xu joins Ed Ludlow to discuss on "Bloomberg Technology."
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[bobbysekao]

This will be a game changer for personalized cold emails, headed to their site right now !

[StartEmpire]

00:02 HeyGen valued at $500M in funding round
00:44 HeyGen simplifies traditional video production with AI technology.
01:24 HeyGen's AI model verifies and creates versions of submitted footage.
02:06 AI video startup HeyGen valued at $500M
02:57 HeyGen valued at $500M in funding round
03:41 AI Video startup HeyGen addresses trust and safety concerns
04:24 HeyGen uses AI for video avatar creation and moderation
05:07 HeyGen prohibits political content for election safety
Crafted by Merlin AI.

[collinsmurithi]

This is so cool man! Glad I saw this today. Already loving it.

[deep.space.]

Video are expensive to make? You pick up you phone you can already film and upload. Most videos online aren't Hollywood VFX/CGI. Doesn't need a $500M AI company to do that.

[TaskSwitcherify]

Bloomberg, I'm a fan but can you upload a higher quality video?

[TS]

Will you allow me to make a video of Xi announcing the independence of Tibet?

[MariaOlson-tm]

really amazing.thanks for sharing i always watch you videos. makes us learn a lot. God bless you and all of us.

[profitpurpose]

someone will combine heygen with sora to turn all into movie stars

[channelsold]

"real life model decoys are here"
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what 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱

[TuitionNearMe]

Amazing that an Asian founder got funded!

[dadplaysgolf]

I'm at a point where I can just tell if the video is AI generated.

[Freechannelopen]

AI going into SIMS seems more interesting

[kenchu]

I thought YouTube has announced that AI generated videos will be banned or will be excluded from monetization?

[bebdaumon]

How did they get to a $500 million dollar valuation? They don't own the AI code. They use an API.

[MrMountain]

Imagine it gets hacked and they start making videos of you doing crazy stuff

[bobtarmac]

Should we cease Ai? Or be… Laid off by Ai then human extinction? Or suffer an… Ai new world order? With swell robotics everywhere, Ai jobloss is the only thing I worry about anymore. Anyone else feel the same?

[RahulGupta-ukgc]

And then I hired a bunch of 3rd worlders to label my data for cents. And now I made my asian ancestry proud!

[jamesjz]

See all these Chinese AI talents, if they don't get capital here in US, sure they will get funded in China. How much technology edge does US have without these talents? Is it really 6-months? I can see them get funded overnight by the Chinese government or mega-companies.

[TheTechTrance]

WOW!! Happy to see this for Heygen. Especially because I chose them over other cloning companies (synthesia, pipio) for the same reasons. But the question is… can their avatars handle BRACES? 😁

[baboon_baboon_baboon]

These valuations are magical bs numbers. If people didn’t learn their lesson about overvalued startups after the recent few years, then there’s no hope for you to succeed in life