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I'd be curious to learn why Secret Weapons (the makers of this tool) didn't raise $100M in venture funding two or three years ago, before the start of the AI video boom.

They were first on the scene with EbSynth [1], which was the first widely used AI-powered video-to-video style transfer and keyframe interpolation system. EbSynth gave rise to comedians like Joel Haver [2] and lots of others like him.

Several other companies [3] used EbSynth to base their technology on and wound up raising large seed rounds. Major musicians used EbSynth either directly or through these other companies to make music videos [4,5].

Secret Weapons was in a great position to conquer AI video and AI creative tools, but they seemingly slept on it.

[1] https://ebsynth.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY3y6zNTiLs&list=PLKtIcOP0Wv... (playlist with all of his animations)

[3] https://kaiber.ai/ and others

[4] Linkin Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY

[5] Magdalena Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLCHvRsgRQ



Super quick browse...but...IMHO, aren't video diffusion models and ebsynth apples and oranges?

ebsynth looks like final cut pro plugins for masking and tracking. I could see the projected customer base being similar, but the skillset & resources required from your engineering team is significantly different.

> Secret Weapons was [set] to conquer AI video and AI creative tools

Oh goodness, I think we both agree that's a bit much :)


This video was from three years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FN7fKlJcPE

Didn't know we were that far along 3 years ago?


EbSynth was a sleeper hit and these guys could have built something huge. This predates Sora, Runway, D-ID, and everything else in the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP3u09_YFxk




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