Haiper: Europe's Video-Generative AI Powerhouse in Stealth Mode
Haiper is training the most powerful perceptual foundation model for visual creation, and is scaling to become Europe’s powerhouse for video-generative AI. Haiper is a video-generative AI platform building a powerful foundation model for visual content. The company is coming out of stealth mode as it announces a $13.8M seed round led by Octopus Ventures. This brings Haiper’s total funding to $19.2M ahead of it raising a Series A round in 2024.
Haiper was founded in late 2021 by Dr Yishu Miao (CEO) and Dr Ziyu Wang (CTO), both with PhDs in Machine Learning from Oxford University and former Researchers at DeepMind.
Dr Wang was a key contributor to DeepMind programs AlphaStar and AlphaGo and also served as a Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain, while Dr Miao previously founded and led the London ML team building large language models (LLMs) for Global Trust & Safety at TikTok. The company’s co-founders have experience working alongside AI pioneers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Nando de Freitas (principal scientist of DeepMind), and Phil Blunsom – currently Chief Scientist at Cohere. Haiper has partnered with several top academic labs from the likes of the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Fashion Innovation Agency at London College of Fashion.
An all-in-one visual foundation model for publishers, studios and individuals, Haiper enables everyone, even those without technical training and experience, to easily generate high-quality video content. Over the next few months, Haiper will develop and release a series of large trained models that will push the boundaries of technology-enabled creativity and imagination. By playing, experimenting, and providing feedback, Haiper’s users will grow the power and potential of its proprietary visual foundation model.
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