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.
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 :)
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