Haiper was founded by DeepMind alums Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang, who began work on the company in 2021 and formally incorporated it in 2022. It offers a consumer-facing website where users can generate short videos from text prompts (two-second HD or up to four seconds at slightly lower quality) and features like image animation and video repainting. The team says it plans to build a core video-generation model that could be offered to others, has been privately testing a closed API with developers, and has considered open-sourcing models in the future. Haiper aims to keep core consumer features free to build a community while exploring commercial use cases with partners such as JD.com. The founders emphasize solving fundamental issues like the uncanny-valley problem for AI-generated humans and physical realism. The company has roughly 20 employees and is actively hiring. Financially, Haiper has completed early financings including a recent seed and an earlier pre-seed round.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2024