This 26-year-old's new AI TikTok makes playful, creative short videos from just a few words - built for Gen Z | Fortune
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This 26-year-old's new AI TikTok makes playful, creative short videos from just a few words - built for Gen Z | Fortune
"That's why she dropped out of her Stanford Ph.D program and co-founded Pika in April 2023 with aspiring animator and fellow Ph.D student Chenlin Meng. Just as AI video companies like Runway were starting to get hot, the duo, after experimenting with making long-form generative AI films, decided to create an easier-to-use AI video generator-sparking interest from top Silicon Valley investors like Nat Friedman."
"Now, has Pika has raised about $135 million at a $470 million valuation and boasts 14.5 million users across several creative apps. It recently launched a new TikTok-like AI video app, also called Pika, that is already trending, and last week it debuted a new feature in that app called Predictive Video. Unlike other video tools which require long prompts to generate good results, Predictive Video allows users to upload a selfie and say something simple, like "make me a rock star,""
"or "I'm giving a TED Talk," or "make me sing in Japanese"; the tool then infers your intent, delivering a complete video with a script, music and dance moves, background, lighting, and camera angles and visual effects. Instead of just producing a standalone video clip, Pika can anticipate motion and interaction, producing a sort of mixed reality by allowing users to weave themselves or real-world elements into AI-generated scenes-something that traditionally would take"
Demi Guo, 26, founded AI video company Pika after leaving a Stanford Ph.D. program and co-founding with Chenlin Meng in April 2023. Pika has raised about $135 million at a $470 million valuation and reports 14.5 million users across creative apps. The company launched a TikTok-like AI video app called Pika and introduced Predictive Video, which lets users upload a selfie and issue short prompts like "make me a rock star" to produce complete videos. Predictive Video infers user intent to generate scripts, music, choreography, backgrounds, lighting, camera angles, and visual effects. Pika can anticipate motion and interaction to integrate users or real-world elements into AI-generated mixed-reality scenes.
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