This Entrepreneur Built A Multimillion-Dollar Business To Put AI At The Center Of Creative Arts
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- Growing up in Silicon Valley, Demi Guo had two loves: technology and poetry. “Because of these two passions, I was always very excited to do something at the intersection of AI and creative stuff,” she says. Her interests came together in 2023 when she cofounded Pika with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Chenlin Meng, 27. The AI tool turns written prompts into cinematic videos in a plethora of styles-including realistic live action, computer animation and anime. The startup has raised $135 million from investors, including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, at a reported valuation of nearly $470 million. This sort of tech has become a hot-button topic amid concerns that AI will threaten showbiz jobs (a central issue in the Hollywood writers’ strike in 2023). Guo argues Pika isn’t out to replace human artists: “The human artist is the one to guide AI in the right direction and eventually become a masterpiece,” she says.
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Her father also is a tech billionaire in China.
how do you know
oh, that makes a lot of sense.
Don’t sound like silicon valley native.
@@mypandabear50344 She was born in US, but grow up in Hangzhou.
She did great.
Being Born in America is an advantage in itself, being born in Silicon Valley, is like getting served on a silver platter
Please refrain from bothering her. She demonstrates remarkable courage in expressing her beliefs and has worked diligently to establish her credentials.
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13:42 "we learn from .. uh.. various sources of.. uh.. videos/data that we curated" (i.e. I don't want to tell you I used all copyright movies and YT videos) :D
Yep
Being from "Silicon Valley" sounds like a hugh advantage for knowing where tech will be later in the future
As someone who lives in San Mateo (same county as Stanford) growing up we didn't know what this area would become. I should've learned more about computers growing up. A lot of these big companies are within driving distance to me.
It’s not, there’s a ton of people in SV that don’t know how to succeed in tech in the same way that growing up in LA doesn’t mean you’ll be a successful musician or actor.
@@OneManOnFireI feel that for sure
She asked really good questions.
7:45 we all want money 😂
Runway ML makes regular contests and promote AI at film festivals. Some Chinese models even open source their treasure code. Pika will have to work really hard to stay relevant
Si demi guo nga ito 😊🌸
Nepo Baby. Her Father is a billionaire in China. See how she said she grew up in "Asia" and not China as if her name is not "Guo". Grew up in Silicon Valley and went to ivy league school.
just like jews had to hide their star of david back in the day
I'm curious about her thought if someone purposefully avoid her nationality.
@ well if your company is based in USA and there is a quasi Cold War going on with China and USA you probably wouldn’t want to mention that lol
@@moisesdelcastillo6703Thank you for explanation. But I think she is overthinking. Because it's not a special tech company or China based company. Nothing special that the political or investors seems not care who's its owner. In business world, most of people only need a tool to create value and make money. Just like Binance.
U seem salty 😂😂
New windows is better like new asus series or should i go for m4 pro or max for ai and video creation stuff ?
The comment section is filled with narrow mindset ppl who are more focused on degrading a successful person rather than learning what ever they can from them, go get yourself a life wherever the person comes from they have done something or graced by god for some deed which you clearly haven’t been so do not watch if you do not want to, i had never heard of this girl before but i ha clearly come to learn something but seems like sometimes social media is really filled with trash
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This is not for you. This is for making ads cheaper for corpos
daaaamn. I mean, you're not wrong yeah
watch my works ! in 5 years people would talk about how she scammed millions out of investors ...
Using Meta AI to generate the fashion collections and hopefully there will be some contracts be generated as well for my swimwear and lingerie collections.
I thought Sora pretty much 'killed'' pika
Ai steals copyright materials
Love you demi guo
All of this already exists. How is pika different or special?
women.
The special is they paid Forbes for this
@@RJ-os1xh really, you pay them and then they do interview of yours
5:26pm 12-5-24 Thur
she looks ai herself
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Love intelligent women
6:2 to
She was born in Silicon Valley?
she's so smart
She looks like woman jack ma😅
30 under 30. Dejavu
I'm using meta ai and chatgpt, for me my rate is zero star..
And for my own opinion this two big ai in the world is the most trash ai in the whole world
why have to make everything fabricated and fake, what's wrong with point a camera and shoot a real video, The Ai shits are terrible to watch
Lol, she forgot to mention~ She was born with a golden spoon in her mouth. Father is a billionaire, free ride to harvard without trying hard to get in.
Actually, it's the opposite. Her father had to donate a HUGE amount to get her in. On the positive side, her father's huge donation funded a lot of scholarships for smart kids from poor backgrounds.
But in all seriousness, she was smart enough to get in on her own merits. You cannot fake acing the SAT. That's why it's important to keep the SAT because it separates the truly smart kids from the legacy kids who are rich but dumb.
Your voice -> I guess unhappy marriage, sorry
what is so creative about putting ai at the center of creative arts ?
so many privileges stacked
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I don’t like this. Human video creation is better. I don’t want AI made videos
13:40 so stealing other people’s art?
Originality itself is undetected plaigairism
@ not in this case.
To put AI in the centre of creative arts huh? Putting artists out of their careers.
she looks like jack ma....but not as smart
This is Very bias and Unworthy interview not a self made entrepreneur
Definitely Lucky only
Yeah, they definitely paid for this. What a bullshit startup lol
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Your verry cute yes but youcwork with ai -_-
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