OPENCV FOUNDERS LAUNCH AI VIDEO STARTUP TO TAKE ON OPENAI AND GOOGLE

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CraftStory, founded by the creators of OpenCV, emerged from stealth with $2 million in funding and technology that generates realistic, human-centric videos up to 5 minutes long. The startup uses a parallelized diffusion architecture that runs multiple algorithms simultaneously across the entire video duration, trained on proprietary high-quality footage rather than internet-scraped data. CraftStory targets enterprise customers needing longer training videos and product demonstrations, offering a video-to-video system that animates still images using driving videos as motion templates.