Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice startup, raised $52 million in a seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to build expressive and steerable AI voice models for creators and enterpr…
HeyGen CMO Andrew Mok says the AI video generation platform is focused on building trust as it pushes synthetic video into mainstream business use, addressing deepfake concerns by emphasizing transpar…
Meituan's LongCat team released version 1.5 of its open-source talking-avatar generator LongCat-Video-Avatar, which replaces the Wav2Vec2 audio encoder with Whisper-Large-v3 and uses DMD2-based step d…
Google has expanded Google Vids with a feature that creates AI avatars resembling users' faces and voices from selfies and voice recordings, announced Thursday. The update, reported by TechCrunch, tra…
Google announced two updates to its AI video creation tool Google Vids, enabling users to star in AI-generated videos by submitting a selfie and voice recording to create a personal avatar, and integr…
Google announced an update to Google Vids that lets users create a custom digital avatar based on a selfie and voice recording, and is bringing its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to the platform for…
A founder's hands-on test of six AI video generators found that no single tool wins for all marketing use cases, with OpenAI's Sora delivering the most cinematic output but lacking brand consistency, …
AI UGC tools such as Creatify, HeyGen, and Arcads can generate spokesperson videos for a few dollars per clip, but their real value is limited to high-volume hook testing rather than full ad productio…
AI video generation tools can turn static product catalog images into marketing videos, addressing the high cost of traditional video production for e-commerce brands with hundreds or thousands of SKU…
Chinese creators are increasingly switching to English-language YouTube content due to Bilibili's drastic cuts in creator incentives (30-90% since 2023), where earnings per million views are 1/30th of…
AI-generated UGC ad tools price finished spokesperson clips at roughly $1 to $11, compared to about $185 for a human creator video, but the cost savings come with hidden risks including platform label…
A new one-prompt AI video workflow chains Claude, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, and FFmpeg to generate a complete YouTube video—script, voiceover, avatar, and edit—from a single user prompt in under an hour, el…
Anthropic's Claude Code and HeyGen's MCP server enable an automated AI video production workflow, allowing users to generate polished videos from a topic input without manual intervention. The system …
OVH Groupe has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia, a French AI startup specializing in speech-to-text technology. The deal aims to strengthen OVH’s expertise in multimodal and agentic ge…
HeyGen launched a tool that allows content creators to build an AI digital twin from as little as 15 seconds of video footage, enabling them to produce scripted videos, change outfits, and deliver con…
AI avatars for content creation have moved beyond novelty, with tools like HeyGen enabling teams to produce videos at scale without cameras or studios. The platform's voice mirroring, LoRA-style avata…
HeyGen has released a repeatable pipeline for producing biweekly team-update videos featuring an AI avatar narrator over real product UI and motion graphics, outputting 1920×1080/60fps clips of approx…
AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company, valued at $5 billion earlier this year, reported…