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Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

TechCrunch LA

One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface. How China’s synthetic media startup Surreal nabs funding in 3 months.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . But GitHub is by no means the first company to consider and make these changes.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform.

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Non-Profits Telling Stories Through Technology

Tech Zulu Event

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. 10:15 Do you the LPs are more open-minded to single VC funds today?

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You Can’t Rely on a VC for Your Hardest Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

She’ll have to quit her well-paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems.