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Synthesia uses third-party LLM providers for scriptwriting rather than in-house models

Victor Riparbelli · Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers · Jul 19, 2023 · at 17:06

Victor Riparbelli, CEO of Synthesia, explains how the company integrates third-party large language models into its AI video creation platform.

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“We use lots of LLM providers. Now, for example, we have a script writing functionality, right? Where you can just type in the topic of your video will help you write the script. That's not technology we've developed from the ground up.”

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