China Overseas Chinese Network, December 6 Topic: Dropped out of Stanford and became a CEO, a Chinese genius girl detonated Silicon Valley.
Guo Wenjing, a talented Chinese girl, is becoming a "new star" in Silicon Valley.
According to the American "World**" report, Guo Wenjing (Demi Guo) as one of the co-founders of the start-up AI company "Pika Labs", in the context of today's industry winter, has been collectively recognized and invested by many "bigwigs", attracting most of the Silicon Valley sought after.
The AI-** generation tool company, which was built by a team of 4 people over 6 months, received $55 million in the first round of financing, and the company's valuation is as high as 2.$500 million. Its investors include former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpath, and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo and others, the lineup can be called luxurious.
November 29, pika10 is officially launched, and its propaganda ** shows that just enter the keyword "Musk is wearing a space suit, 3D animation" in the **input box of the software, and a **Musk wearing a space suit will jump on the screen.
pika1.0 publicity**screenshot **pika official website.
It is understood that pika1The functions of 0 mainly include text generation**, image generation**, conversion between different styles, canvas expansion, local modification, extension of **duration, etc.
pika1.As soon as 0 was released, it circled many fans on social platforms at home and abroad. Open AI founding member Andrej Karpathy took to Pika1 on social platforms0 and said: "Everyone can be a director of multi-modal dreams, just like the architect in Inception." ”
According to Forbes, the story began during last year's winter vacation, when Guo Wenjing and several Stanford University computer science Ph.D. students tried to use generative AI to make a movie to participate in the first "AI Film Festival" held by Runway, a popular AI editing company at the time.
During the competition, Guo Wenjing and his classmates found that although AI technology has advanced by leaps and bounds recently, it is still very difficult to apply it to specific production.
Screenshot of the Forbes report.
In April, Guo and his Ph.D. classmate Chenlin Meng dropped out of Stanford to found Pika Labs to develop an easier-to-use AI generator. When users use PIKA to make a product, they can enter text in the dialog box as a creative prompt, and the AI will generate a short three-second ** in response. You can also upload **, please AI convert it into an animation effect.
Screenshot of Guo Wenjing's social ** platform.
About 500,000 people have already used the software, and millions of new ** are born here every week.
Guo Wenjing said that the next step is to expand the company's team to about 20 people. But commercializing results is not the primary goal at the moment. Eventually, she hopes to implement a tiered subscription model. She said: "We want to do more for ordinary consumers, like Meng Chenlin and me, who have creative complexes but are not professionals. ”
Pika Labs' social media accounts.
As the founder of a high-profile emerging company, Guo Wenjing is not the first time he has received the attention of **.
As early as 2015, Guo Wenjing attracted widespread attention for becoming the first student in Zhejiang to be admitted to Harvard University in advance.
According to the report, Guo Wenjing studied at Hangzhou No. 2 Middle School (i.e., Hangzhou No. 2 Middle School), won the first prize of the National Youth Informatics Olympiad League (Zhejiang Province) in his first year of high school, and was invited by MIT to participate in the competition and won the second place in the North American Programming Invitational Competition, surpassing most of the college teams from Harvard, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon. In 2014 and 2015, he participated in the National Informatics Olympiad in the United States for two consecutive years and won the championship.
In addition, she is also busy with debate club activities, using her spare time to learn sailing, skiing, lifesaving, and participate in summer camps in many colleges and universities.
Guo Wenjing's interviewer, Tang Meijie, secretary general of Harvard University in China, once said: "I have been interviewing in China for 6 years, and she is one of the best students. Her computer skills are also among the top among female programmers of the same age in the United States. She scored 5 perfect marks in the American college preparatory exam, is very fluent in English, and has a high appearance, which is almost perfect. ”
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