No Priors Ep. 69 | With HeyGen CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Xu

AI video generation models still have a long way to go when it comes to making compelling and complex videos but the HeyGen team are well on their way to streamlining the video creation process by using a combination of language, video, and voice models to create videos featuring personalized avatars, b-roll, and dialogue. This week on No Priors, Joshua Xu the co-founder and CEO of HeyGen, joins Sarah and Elad to discuss how the HeyGen team broke down the elements of a video and built or found models to use for each one, the commercial applications for these AI videos, and how they’re safeguarding against deep fakes. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil l @joshua_xu_ Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 3:08 Applications of AI content creation 5:49 Best use cases for Hey Gen 7:34 Building for quality in AI video generation 11:17 The models powering HeyGen 14:49 Research approach 16:39 Safeguarding against deep fakes 18:31 How AI video generation will change video creation 24:02 Challenges in building the model 26:29 HeyGen team and company