Video Generation as a Primitive

Key Takeaways

Video generation models are getting really good. Google's V3 already produces 8-second photorealistic soundon clips for just a few dollars per video, and they're often indistinguishable from reality. Soon, you'll be able to create nearperfect footage of anything on the fly for a marginal cost approaching zero, and video will become a new basic building block for software. When this happens, a lot of new ideas become possible. It's definitely going to change media and entertainment. Imagine being able to create a brand new season of your favorite cancelled TV series. Or a personalized kids cartoon starring your own family as the characters. Or an AI native successor to Tik Tok where every video is made for exactly one viewer. Video generation will also change how we buy things. Imagine you're shopping online. You'll be able to see yourself wearing the clothes or using the products that you're browsing. And when you're apartment hunting, your stuff will be autostaged in every listing that you click on. This new primitive also opens up major changes to gaming and simulation. We'll have video games built with no game engine. We'll have APIs that return infinite robotic training data, and we'll be able to have video calls with loved ones long after they're gone. And these are just the obvious ideas that we can imagine today. So, we're interested in founders who treat generative video as a new computing primitive, not an output. Founders who are going to build new apps, tooling, and infrastructure for a world with limitless, low latency video. If that sounds like you, we'd love to see you apply to YC.