{"id":40651,"date":"2025-08-02T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=40651"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:32:20","slug":"%e6%9b%9dmeta-%e6%88%96%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad%e6%96%af%e5%9d%a6%e7%a6%8f%e5%a4%a9%e6%89%8d%e5%b0%91%e5%a5%b3-ai-%e5%88%9b%e4%bc%81%ef%bc%8c%e5%8f%91%e5%8a%9b%e8%a7%86%e9%a2%91%e7%94%9f%e6%88%90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/40651.html","title":{"rendered":"Meta may acquire Stanford's talented girl AI startup to power video generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Information, Za's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/meta\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Meta]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Meta<\/a> The company is actively seeking partnerships with startups in AI video generation technology, aiming to push into the video generation space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40652\" title=\"b050cdd1j00t0cn8n0094d000p000anp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b050cdd1j00t0cn8n0094d000p000anp.jpg\" alt=\"b050cdd1j00t0cn8n0094d000p000anp\" width=\"900\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the situation say that<strong>Meta's recent partnership with AI video startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/pika\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Pika<\/a> Discussions were held on potential collaboration, covering possible<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad\" title=\"[See articles with [acquisition] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Acquisition<\/a>or a technology license agreement.<\/strong>It was also revealed that Meta has also partnered with another small video generator focused on creators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/higgsfield\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Higgsfield<\/a> Discussions on the acquisition were held, but negotiations have now been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Pika is reportedly known for its AI technology that generates realistic videos. And according to public information<strong>Wenjing Guo is the co-founder and CEO of Pika Labs, and she and co-founder and CTO Chenlin Meng are both PhD students at Stanford University's AI Lab.<\/strong>In April 2023, he dropped out of Stanford and founded Pika Labs to develop AI tools for generating short text-based videos.<\/p>\n<p>It's worth mentioning that Guo Wenjing worked on the Meta AI research team before enrolling in Stanford's PhD program. It is known that Guo Wenjing has demonstrated extraordinary academic talent since childhood, and is known as \"the girl who learns\", and is the first student from Hangzhou No. 2 Middle School in Zhejiang Province to be admitted to Harvard's undergraduate program in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Pika exploded onto the scene just six months after its founding, starting with a team of just four, but closing three rounds of funding in 2023, raising around $55 million and valuing the company at around $200-300 million; it then raised around $80 million in a Series B round in 2024, raising its valuation to nearly $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>Pika's core product is the \"text-born video\" model, which claims that users can generate short animated videos in a variety of styles with a one-sentence description.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Za's Meta is actively seeking partnerships with AI video-generation technology startups, aiming to make a push into the field of video generation, according to The Information. Sources close to the matter said that Meta has recently held discussions with AI video startup Pika about potential collaborations, including possible acquisitions or technology licensing agreements. Meta has also discussed an acquisition with Higgsfield, another small creator-focused video generator, but talks have been suspended. Pika is reportedly known for its AI technology for generating realistic videos. According to public information, Kuo is the co-founder and CEO of Pika Labs, and she is joined by co-founder and CEO of Pika Labs.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[6324,297,514,1747],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-40651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-higgsfield","tag-meta","tag-pika","tag-1747"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40651","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=40651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40651"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=40651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}