Weekly AI Recap: With $12.7 million in funding, this founder is making video production easy and accessible for millions.

Good Morning, Innovators! ☕️

Welcome to Homebase Edition #3: Your shortcut to mastering the AI market.

What’s on tap today?

• Weekly Founder Story
• Weekly AI Headline Recap
• Emerging AI Trend

Ready to leap ahead?

Let’s explore these insights together and equip you for the next big wave in AI.

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AI FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT

1 Founder story
Multi-Million Funding to Simplify Video Editing

All successful businesses solve a real problem.

Whether born from necessity or a vision, the end game is practical solutions for actual issues. Kapwing nailed this.

With $12.7 million in funding, they've made video production easy and accessible for millions.

Introducing Julia Enthoven and Eric Lu: the minds behind the mission.

They've achieved:

🚀 Over 3 million users per month
🎥 Built an AI arsenal that’s reshaping video edits
💡 Innovating with features like Smart B-roll and Premium Text-to-Speech

Kapwing started small - just a few simple web apps targeting basic video editing problems.

Now, they’ve evolved.

Today, they offer a robust platform packed with advanced, AI-powered tools that help social media marketers streamline and elevate their video production work.

Let's dive deeper:

🧠 Filled a massive gap in the user-friendly video tool space
🔧 MVP went from sketch to sensation with direct user input
📈 Fostered a flourishing YouTube community to spread video vibes
💸 Focused on organic growth with minimal spending on ads
🌍 Embraced a remote-first approach from the start
🔍 Chose to develop based on real user feedback over theoretical market studies

Key Highlights:

• Built a responsive product quickly with a focus on user experience.
• Became profitable through smart growth strategies.
• Reached millions using AI and intuitive design.
• Grew organically, keeping advertising costs low.
• Enhanced teamwork through remote operations.
• Prioritized user feedback in our development process.

Catch the full scoop on Kapwing’s journey right 👉️ here 🔥🔥🔥

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HEADLINE ROUNDUP

Headline recap

• OpenAI showcases custom technology at this year's Met Gala exhibition. (WSJ)
• X introduces Grok AI-powered 'Stories' features to premium users (BS)
• Better Siri is coming: Insights from Apple’s AI research ahead of WWDC. (TV)
• Microsoft Preps MAI-1 AI to Rival Google and OpenAI. (R)
• Generative AI challenges Google Search: Competition grows as AI-driven SEO risks quality. (FC)
• OpenAI released the first music video created with Sora. (CN)
• JPMorgan introduces IndexGPT to capitalize on the AI boom in Wall Street. (B)
• Stack Overflow and OpenAI team up to enhance leading LLMs. (SO)
• Gemini Models in medicine: Outperforming humans, leading in summarization and dialogue. (CU)
• Sam Altman discusses the impact and future of AI, addressing the importance of increasingly capable intelligent systems. (YT)

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TRENDS

1 AI Trend of the week

1/ Mediapipe +99X+ growth

What is it? MediaPipe is an open-source framework designed for building pipelines that apply computer vision to sensory data like video or audio. It’s set up to let developers create a perception pipeline using a graph of modular components. Right now, MediaPipe is in its early stages, at alpha version 0.