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Ex-Microsoft engineer’s AI video startup scores $60M from top VCs, Jared Leto


With this round of funding, Captions will expand its machine learning team and invest more in in-house research and technical infrastructure.

To achieve this shift, the company first expanded its editing offerings with a range of AI-assisted tools, including those for correcting eye contact, dubbing a speaker’s words into another language, executing human-like voiceovers and producing short clips from a longer piece of video (among other things). “These innovative features (have) catalyzed a new age for creativity, empowering an entirely new group of creators who otherwise may have been blocked by the barriers that come with recording or editing,” Misra noted in a blog post. With this round of funding, the startup will expand its machine learning (ML) team and invest more in in-house research and technical infrastructure to launch more AI capabilities for its video platform.

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