Synthesia

Synthesia, the AI video platform transforming how organizations create and share knowledge, today announced it has raised a $200 million Series E funding round at a $4 billion valuation. The round is led by existing investor Google Ventures (GV), with participation from Evantic, the venture fund founded by former Sequoia partner Matt Miller, and Hedosophia. Existing investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Accel, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), PSP Growth, Air Street Capital, and MMC Ventures also participated, reaffirming their commitment to Synthesia’s long-term vision.

Our new customizable Avatars are designed to help users generate both the explanation and the action inside the same editor. You pick an Avatar, describe the outfit and setting you want, and then prompt for a short action clip to illustrate the point right after it’s spoken.

Today we’re excited to show you Synthesia 3.0, a new AI video platform reimagined for the future of video. Learn more about Video Agents, Courses, Copilot, Express-2 avatars, AI Dubbing, and many other new features and products coming soon.

Today, Synthesia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are expanding their collaboration to accelerate the adoption of AI video in the enterprise space. As a result, our AI video platform is now available through AWS Marketplace, we have increased our use of AWS cloud services to help train our models faster to meet the growing demand for enterprise AI video, and AWS has adopted our AI Dubbing technology to localize its own marketing content.

At Synthesia, security isn’t a box we tick, it’s one of the core pillars of our enterprise platform. That’s why I’m proud to announce that we’re now ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, the internationally recognized standard for information security management.

Today, we’re diving deeper into Express-2, our new video and voice engine for AI avatars that pairs state-of-the-art voice cloning with a diffusion transformer (DiT) model designed to create full-body avatars that gesture like professional speakers. Thanks to Express-2, our new avatars combine facial expressions and lip sync with natural hand and body gestures, which makes it easier for viewers to understand and follow the context of the video.

Today, we're excited to announce Generative Assets, a new feature allowing enterprise users to effortlessly create AI-generated videos with Veo 3 directly within Synthesia.

Today, Synthesia is releasing AI Dubbing, a new product available on our platform that speeds up and reduces the costs of localizing video, while offering enterprise-grade security through Secure Editing, a unique feature that allows businesses to manually tweak machine translations while keeping the meaning of the video intact.

Synthesia, the world’s leading enterprise AI-powered video platform, and global sports brand Decathlon, announce their collaboration to launch the pioneering Avatar Lab. This initiative reinvents the Decathlon's communication methods and solidifies the French company's position as a leader in generative AI.

Our new headquarters is four times the size of our previous London location, underscoring our deep commitment to London as a central hub for our operations. Synthesia started in London eight years ago and this significant expansion symbolizes our rapid growth and strategic investment in attracting and nurturing top talent in the UK.

At Synthesia, we have always believed that building AI responsibly means embedding governance from the ground up. Before clear regulatory frameworks or technical standards emerged, we were already considering how fairness, safety, and accountability play a role in the way we develop and deploy our technology.

We are the first company in the world to train our AI video models using NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs on Google Cloud.

Today, we’re publishing the first edition of our yearly transparency report, providing insights into how we ensure our platform is being used responsibly, in compliance with existing online safety regulations and our own policies.

We have reached over $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and received a strategic investment from Adobe Ventures.

Today, we are announcing that Synthesia will be leveraging Shutterstock's extensive content library to research new ways of pre-training our EXPRESS-2 model which will power a new generation of AI avatars later this year.

Discover how Synthesia’s AI avatars are made—from actor casting and filming to the AI tech that brings them to life.

The talent experience program is designed to create a forum for open dialogue between Synthesia and the exceptional actors behind our most popular stock AI avatars. We want to listen to their ideas and concerns, and improve our platform and products. Participants will be able to see new technologies and use cases before they're released and provide their feedback.

When people think of generative AI, energy efficiency is not the first tagline that comes to mind. While the rising energy consumption of LLMs has given the industry a bad reputation when it comes to sustainability, we wanted to see if the data told a different story for AI generated video. Our findings presented...

Today, we’re thrilled to introduce an experimental feature that will take the AI avatar experience to the next level: Selfie Avatars. With just a few images of yourself, you can create a custom avatar that opens up new possibilities for expression and communication.

Series D round led by NEA with participation from new investors WiL, Atlassian Ventures, PSP Growth and existing investors, including GV, MMC Ventures and FirstMark. Funding will support product innovation, talent growth, and the company’s expansion in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. Synthesia is now the UK’s most valuable generative AI media company, and the worldwide market leader in enterprise AI video, with over 60,000 customers. Peter Hill joins Synthesia as CTO after spending 25 years in technical leadership roles at Amazon, and two years as CEO and CPO of Wildfire Studios.

Today, the University College London’s (UCL) Faculty of Education and Society is releasing a research report that investigates the effectiveness of AI-generated synthetic videos for adult learning.

Easily create a personalized Santa video for your loved ones. Choose a festive avatar, customize the script, and our AI elves will email you the video.

We're sharing the results from Synthesia's first public red team test organized by NIST and Humane Intelligence, as part of our efforts to prevent the creation of non-consensual deepfakes and harmful content.

Discover how we streamlined processes and drove growth at Synthesia, optimizing efficiency and scaling operations for success

Find out how we built a real-time collaborative video editor, tackling technical challenges and ensuring scalability.

Today, we are announcing an update to our platform’s policies regarding the creation of political content in line with our previous efforts to protect elections and the democratic process. Effective immediately, only users with an enterprise account and a custom AI avatar will be allowed to create and distribute political content on Synthesia. This policy shift is designed to ensure that political content is created with the highest degree of transparency and accountability, reinforcing our commitment to a trusted and reliable information ecosystem.

Synthesia is providing the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine free access to our platform so they can produce informative videos using AI avatars, designed to help Ukrainian citizens and social workers navigate the country’s vital social programs and services.

Today, we're excited to announce that Synthesia is the world's first AI video company to achieve ISO/IEC 42001 certification, as verified through a comprehensive external audit that was just completed this month by security experts from A-LIGN.

Synthesia has reached a major milestone: 1 million people are using our platform to create content in over 130 languages. To better support their needs, we’re building the world’s first video localization solution available in the Synthesia 2.0 platform

We are sharing the results of a recent red teaming effort of our content moderation systems in the hope of create an open environment where industry peers, policymakers, and the public can engage with us in these crucial conversations. Together, we can harness the power of AI while safeguarding the values that make our digital spaces creative and trustworthy.

Discover how focusing on the ROI of GenAI can drive tangible outcomes for your business. Uncover the economic potential of GenAI investments.

In a jaw-dropping moment today at COMPUTEX 2024, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang revealed an AI avatar of himself during his live keynote. Built by Synthesia, the avatar is powered by EXPRESS-1, our latest AI model, which has been trained to understand the intricate relationship between what we say and how we say it, and to reproduce human emotions and mannerisms with incredible detail.

Creating video is pretty daunting the first time you take it up. Visual creation requires an eye for composition, balance and aesthetic. Triggers is a new feature from Synthesia that provides a new way to manipulate time as you edit the video.

Synthesia is introducing one of biggest product updates in recent history: the fourth generation of our AI avatars called Expressive Avatars. These avatars are designed with a diffusion model, offering significant advancement from previous models in terms of sentiment prediction, better lip-synch, and human-like voices.

We worked with Ridley Scott Studio to produce a campaign film for Malaria Must Die, and helped David Beckham speak over 9 languages.

Synthesia, the world’s #1 AI video creation platform is introducing a brand new feature called AI Video Assistant to help make the video creation process easier.

Synthesia was engaged by Craftww to help JustEat transcreate their widely successful Snoop Dogg advertisement (+10m views) into the Australian market.

With Lay’s, UNIT9 and 180Amsterdam we created a personalised video experience for the global campaign featuring Lionel Messi.

We are proud to be a launch partner on Responsible Practices for Synthetic Media, the first wide framework for the ethical development, creation, sharing of synthetic media.

Synthesia has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024. This year’s list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations, and achieving remarkable milestones in all sectors of the economy.

Learn how the new Live Collaboration feature revolutionizes video editing. Increase efficiency and communication with real-time and asynchronous collaboration.

Today, the Partnership on AI is releasing the first batch of in-depth case studies showing how risks related to synthetic media can be mitigated effectively.

Synthesia has raised $90 million in Series C funding to continue investing into making video production simple and intuitive without the need for cameras or studios. Here’s what’s next for us.

Elections are the cornerstone of democracy and we all have a role to play in safeguarding public trust and election integrity. With the 2024 election cycle in full swing, we are more committed than ever to fostering the responsible use of AI.

We are thrilled to announce that Vittorio Ferrari is joining our R&D team. Discover more about his remarkable work and his new role at Synthesia here.

Synthetic media is shrouded in myths, making it difficult to properly address both the opportunities and threats. Here’s how we think about regulation as an ethics-first company.

We set out our vision for the future of media, and our part in making sure Synthetic Media progresses in an impactful and ethical way.

We are pleased to announce our partnership with ‎‎ElevenLabs, a leading provider of advanced text-to-speech (TTS) and voice API technology. This collaboration represents a step forward in our ongoing efforts to add more innovative features to our generative AI video platform.