Hassaan Raza is the cofounder and CEO of Tavus, a video API platform for digital twins. They've raised more than $28M in funding from investors such as Sequoia and Scale VP.

Hassaan's favorite book: Go Like Hell (Author: A. J. Baime)

(00:01 ) Introduction
(00:38 ) Overview of AI in video generation
(01:44 ) AI models used in video generation
(03:35 ) Capturing intricate facial movements in real-time
(06:46 ) Data capture and 3D modeling from basic video input
(09:01 ) Explanation of neural radiance fields and Gaussian splatting
(10:14 ) Capturing facial expressions for video generation
(15:22 ) Temporal coherence in video generation
(18:05 ) Challenges in conversational video, including lip-syncing and emotion alignment
(20:38 ) Inference challenges in conversational video
(22:47 ) Bottlenecks in the pipeline: LLMs and time-to-first-token
(26:58 ) Multimodal models and trade-offs
(27:36 ) Advice for founders running API businesses
(30:04 ) Pitfalls to avoid in API businesses
(32:15 ) Technological breakthroughs in AI
(34:10 ) Rapid-fire round

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