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Hedra Secures $32M Series A for AI Character Video Generation

Hedra, a web-based AI video generation startup founded in 2023, has raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz's Infrastructure fund. The company's Character-3 model enables users to create videos with AI-generated characters and has gained popularity for creating viral talking baby podcasts, with the startup now focusing on attracting creators while developing technology for interactive AI characters.

ByteDance Unveils OmniHuman-1 Deepfake Video Generator

TikTok parent company ByteDance has demonstrated a new AI system called OmniHuman-1 capable of generating realistic video content from just a reference image and audio input. The system offers adjustable aspect ratios and body proportions, and reportedly outperforms existing deepfake generators in quality.