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GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A
Ray Choi
June 15, 2024
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🤑 GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A
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Among all the young AI startups being ruthlessly pursued by VCs these days, GPTZero has already grown into profitability in its first year and a half of life, generating millions in revenue. Founded by 24-year-old Edward Tian and 26-year-old Alex Cui, who’ve been friends since high school, GPTZero offers a detection tool that helps identify whether a piece of content was AI generated.
The founders have chosen to take a $10 million “preemptive” Series A led by Footwork co-founder Nikhil Basu Trivedi, the team has exclusively told TechCrunch. (“Preemptive” is VC-speak for when an investor nabs a deal before the founders were trying to raise.)
This is quite the coup for Basu Trivedi. GPTZero has been watched by top VC firms practically since Tian launched an initial version as a web app in December 2022, and 30,000 people instantly swarmed it, crashing its Streamlit-hosted website. (Adrien Treuille, Streamlit’s co-founder, who sold to Snowflake for $800 million, later became an angel investor, Tian says.) The company formally launched in January 2023.
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As an answer to OpenAI’s Sora, Chinese technology company Kuaishou introduced Kling, a new text-to-video AI model capable of generating high-quality videos.
The model can create large-scale realistic motions which essentially simulate physical world characteristics and has the ability to produce two-minute videos in 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second, ensuring clear and visually appealing videos.
Several AI enthusiasts shared their creations from Kling on X. The model generates videos that seem to be accurately simulating real-world physical properties by using advanced 3D face and body reconstruction backed by the company’s proprietary technology, allowing users to create videos in various aspect ratios.
Here are the Top 10 mind-blowing videos produced by Kling AI.
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