A pretty big announcement...
It’s been an absolutely wild ride building Metaphysic.ai with my co-founders and our extraordinary team. Four years ago during the pandemic I was in LA zooming with Chris Ume in Thailand. Hey, wouldn’t it be fun if Tom Cruise was on TikTok? We made some videos that were creative, original, and somehow lit the world on fire. Then Tom Graham and Kevin Ume linked arms and we set out to build a company around generative AI.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we brought back Elvis? Hey - we should collaborate with Hip Hop legends and do it LIVE on global TV. Let’s help studios make BIG movies - Aliens, Mad Max, Here - in ways that could never before have been brought to life. Wait, what if Sinatra were alive today?!… Of course, we had no idea how to do any of these things or what the next few years had in store. But we knew we needed to lead with ethics and persevered to develop some astonishing technology that solved real-time creative problems.
Today, we are merging with the world’s leading VFX company DNEG to become BRAHMA. We will combine DNEG’s multiple Academy Award winning visual effects and animation toolsets and marry them with the incredible power of generative AI to build products empowering content creators across industries at scale. From media and entertainment, to retail, to healthcare, to education and beyond - if you have a story to tell, we now have the tools to bring it to life faster, cheaper, and better than ever before.
There are too many people to thank (colleagues, investors, artists), but most of all, I want to thank YOU who saw those early DeepTom video and laughed at them (and not at me when I decided to go all-in on this tech). This merger isn’t just about combining two companies - it’s about creating a new paradigm for how stories will be told in the future. I’m excited for what lies ahead as we work to ensure this technology serves human flourishing and creativity. Onward!
… simply couldn’t happen without Martin D. Adams Jo Plaete Alejandro Lopez Ed Ulbrich, Simon Deckers, Beni Beeri Issembert ???, Zehra Soysal Chris Smith, Swarnendu Halder and countless others! ????