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Synthetic Data & Generative AI: Fireside chat with Synthesia Co-Founder & CEO Victor Riparbelli
February 26, 2023
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Founded in 2017, Synthesia is one of the early pioneers of generative AI and the first to synthesize video from text. Synthesia has grown to a team of 135 employees and 15,000+ customers. Among its clients are fast-food giants including McDonald’s, research company Teleperformance and global advertising holding company WPP.
In this fireside chat, Eric Landau, Co-Founder & CEO of Encord, will talk to Victor Riparbelli, Co-Founder & CEO of Synthesia, about what the early days of Synthesia looked like, the current & future role of synthetic media, and setting up & scaling a world-leading research organisation pushing the boundaries of synthetic data generation.
Written by Eric Landau
Eric Landau is the CEO & Co-Founder of Encord, an active learning platform for computer vision. Eric was the lead quantitative researcher on a global equity delta-one desk, putting thousands of models into production. Before Encord, he spent nearly a decade in high-frequency trading at DRW... see more
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