HeyGen

19 statements across 3 episodes · 12 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2024 by Joshua Xu · said 38 times in 8 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jun 20, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Streaming generative video could replace real-time human conversations
“If we push forward into technology, making the performance much better, I think we will be able to create experience like generative video in a streaming way. And that actually will be potentially replace a lot of the, you know, real-time conversation we have …”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 5:31 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Disclosure
HeyGen views OpenAI's Sora as a component, not a direct competitor
“And in fact, we actually see Sora as our partner because we can, we are able to integrate that as one of the component, you know, generator, and then feed that into our acquisition engine for the business application.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 14:36 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HeyGen has just 40 employees serving over 40,000 paying customers
“We are a little bit over 40 people, but we are serving over 40, 40,000 paying customers on the platform today.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 26:15 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Opinion
Modular AI video pipelines beat end-to-end models like Sora for enterprises
“And the other approach is that what we believe in at Hadrian is that we try to assemble the whole video into different components. Lastly, it will be A-Roll and B-Roll. B-Roll represents all different kinds of elements, like voiceover, music, transition, A-Rol…”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 13:36 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Insight
Generative video below 90% quality threshold is unusable for enterprises
“There's an invisible line of a quality, you know, let's say that thresholds to 90 anything below 90 essentially is unusable for the customers because we cannot really replace the real life production process they have.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 8:03 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Insight
Lower AI loss functions do not guarantee better generative video quality
“Unlike a lot of other model, I think building video model you know, being able to integrate aesthetics into the AI model is pretty hard. So, you know, video generation is not only about solving a mathematical problem. It's actually about creating something the…”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 24:10 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Publicis generated over 100,000 personalized HeyGen videos for global employees
“And one of the use case we have seen from customers that, you know, publicist group, they generate more than a 100,000 videos, a thank you video to send to all the employee globally and in localized into different languages personalized with a name and they ar…”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 23:21 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
HeyGen localizes video into over 175 languages and dialects
“We can also Take existing video that localized that into a hundred, more than a 175 different languages and dialysis.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 6:34 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Insight
Video editing is inexpensive and standardized, but camera production is costly
“Editing, we just learned from customer that editing is not that expensive because it's pretty standard service, but camera is super expensive.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 3:53 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 bullish
Opinion
AI will replace physical cameras for visual content creation
“We wanted to replace the camera because we think AI can create the content, and AI could become the new camera, and that's how we get started with H&M, and our mission is to making visual storytelling accessible to all.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 2:01 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024
Disclosure
HeyGen uses OpenAI and ElevenLabs alongside proprietary video models
“We work with OpenAI, ChatGPT on the text generation side. Obviously also serves like the brain of the orchestration engine that we build internally. And we work with you know, OpenAI and Event Lab on the voice engine, but we build the entire video stack in-hou…”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 11:34 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Avatar generation becomes real-time in two years, full video in five
“Two years from now, it would not be crazy to look at a lot of avatar generation. Asynchronization pipeline will become real-time streaming capable. And I also see the world is moving towards a way that we can probably generate the entire video in real-time as …”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 20:58 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Disclosure
HeyGen uses live video consent and dynamic passcodes to secure avatars
“So we have our safety, you know, security safeguard include very advanced user verification, include, you know, live video consent, dynamic verbal passcode, and rapid human review in the back of all the other have been created on the platform.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 17:11 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024
Disclosure
HeyGen trains and evaluates video models using live A/B test data
“We have to rely on in-product signal, for example, AB test to know which model is actually better, because, you know, only the customer can be the judge for that. And this process generally is just not different from a mathematical standpoint. We kind of have …”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 24:49 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Disclosure
HeyGen video translation pipeline combines lip-sync, voice cloning, and ChatGPT
“One example would be when we look at, you know, the video translation technology is you know, it's a whole new way to translate a content compared to traditional dubbing. We preserve the user the natural voice and their facial expression. But if you look at re…”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 15:57 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
HeyGen strictly prohibits all political and election content on its platform
“First of all, we do not allow any political or election content on our platform today.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 16:57 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jun 20, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
HeyGen streaming avatars could become the visualization layer for real-time AI
“The streaming avatar especially with the latest release on GPD for all, really, really helped to improve the performance of the real-time interaction with text and voice, and HN avatar could become a visualization layer for all those applications.”
Joshua Xu Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 9:22 No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu
Jul 18, 2024 positive
Insight
Guo: Creative AI startups are heavily driven by founder aesthetic taste
“But in, in AI companies today, models are such a big piece of the product experience and that the. Thus the like model design. And I do mean that in the aesthetic sense of the term is quite important and often comes from the founder. And I think an example, a …”
Sarah Guo Jul 18, 2024 ▶ 28:15 No Priors Ep. 72 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Guo: HeyGen demonstrated natural language control for video emotion and voice
“Like, one of the things that Heijen is demonstrated is gonna come out with and product very recently is the ability to use natural language to describe emotion and voice, right? So you can, like, whisper ASMR and just, you know, say, I want the whole video wit…”
Sarah Guo Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 4:11 No Priors Ep. 109 | With Sarah and Elad
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