Haiper, a video-generation tool developed by former DeepMind employees Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang, has entered the competitive AI video market. The company raised significant funding and offers users the ability to create short videos for free on their platform. Haiper focuses on video generation after initially working on 3D reconstruction using neural networks. The company aims to keep its features free to build a community and is exploring commercial partnerships. Haiper is working on solving the uncanny valley problem in AI-generated videos. They are considering open-sourcing their models in the future. Haiper faces competition from OpenAI’s Sora and other players like Google and Nvidia-backed Runway. Investors believe that Haiper needs to develop a strong video-generation model to stand out in the market. While AI video technology is advancing, there is still room for improvement before widespread consumer adoption.
