Riparbelli: London is producing global AI leaders, not regional winners
Victor Riparbelli · Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jan 15, 2025 · at 1:00:03
Victor Riparbelli, CEO of Synthesia, highlights top London-founded artificial intelligence companies to demonstrate the strength of the UK tech ecosystem.
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“What we're seeing in the London ecosystem is that we're actually building global leaders, not just, like, regional winners of, like, expense management or something like that. Like, you have 11 Labs who are leading in voice. You have us, which is leading in enterprise AI video. We have Wave, which is definitely, like, they're leading, but they're definitely, like, one of the top three companies in the world doing software.”
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