{"id":16986,"date":"2024-08-02T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=16986"},"modified":"2024-08-02T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:25:05","slug":"ai%e8%a7%86%e9%a2%91%e5%88%9b%e4%bd%9c%e5%b9%b3%e5%8f%b0hedra%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%841000%e4%b8%87%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83-%e6%8e%a8ai%e8%a7%86%e9%a2%91%e6%a8%a1%e5%9e%8bcharacter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/16986.html","title":{"rendered":"AI video creation platform Hedra raises $10 million to launch AI video model Character-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Recently, there has been some important news in the field of AI video creation.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/hedra\" title=\"[See articles with [Hedra] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Hedra<\/a> The platform successfully raised $10 million in seed funding, attracting widespread attention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pgc-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-240619150521924.jpg\" alt=\"Hedra, an AI lip-syncing video tool, perfectly matches mouth shapes based on audio and supports Chinese!\" \/><\/div>\n<p data-track=\"26\">Hedra was founded by employees who have worked at Nvidia, Google, and Metaverse, and has a strong lineup of investors, including Index Ventures, Abstract, and A16Z Speedrun. In the seed round, Hedra also launched its video-focused base model Character-1. The company claims that Character-1, which was previewed to researchers as early as June, is &quot;the fastest video base model on the market.&quot;<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"27\">Hedra said that to date, more than 350,000 users have used the Character-1 platform and created more than 1.6 million videos. Many of these videos have become popular on Reddit and Instagram. Hedra emphasized that it allows users to create AI pop stars and generate related content, while also continuously improving security and content review functions.<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"28\">Hedra plans to focus on making the platform more multimodal so that it can \u201cunite story, sound, and video generation into a unified workflow,\u201d streamlining content creation and enabling customization of digital avatars and characters.<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"29\">It\u2019s worth mentioning that Hedra\u2019s Character-1 is just one of the latest video generation models to be launched to the public in recent months. In March, Haiper1.5 quietly debuted; in July, RunwayML publicly launched its Gen-3Alpha model; in June, Luma AI announced its realistic video platform Dream Machine. In July, another video platform Captions received a $60 million Series C round.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"30\">In addition, big companies like OpenAI and Google are also actively involved in AI-driven video creation. Although OpenAI&#039;s Sora has not yet been released to the public, the company has worked with brands and filmmakers to demonstrate the platform. Google also announced Veo in May.<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"31\">Product Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/13582.html\/\">https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/13582.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, the AI video creation space has been buzzing with news that Hedra, a platform that has successfully raised $10 million in seed funding, has attracted a lot of attention. Founded by employees who have worked at NVIDIA, Google and Metaverse, Hedra has a strong lineup of investors including Index Ventures, Abstract and A16Z Speedrun. In the seed round, Hedra also launched its video-focused base model, Character-1, which the company says is \"the fastest video base model on the market,\" having previewed it to researchers back in June. Hedra said that to date, more than 350,000 users have used Charact<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[3378,3144,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-16986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-hedra","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16986"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=16986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}