Youtube for AI-generated content
Eggnog is the Youtube for AI-generated content. The initial product is the only AI video platform on the market that generates consistent characters. The vision is to have the largest library of remixable characters and sets for users to collaboratively build and watch AI-generated content. Eggnog launched a week ago, and videos made on the platform are getting 100k views on Twitter. Team: Sam (BS, Applied Math from Harvard) was a data scientist at Facebook and Quora working on newsfeed and creator monetization. Jitesh (BS, MEng from MIT CS) was a consultant at McKinsey and PM at Flexport.
Active Founders
Jitesh Maiyuran
Cofounder of Eggnog. BS and MEng in machine learning from MIT in Computer Science. Masters in machine learning at CSAIL where I trained and fine-tuned language and image models. Previously, I was a PM at Flexport and consultant in McKinsey's New York Office. Excited about helping the most creative people share their ideas.
Sam Plank
Hey, I’m Sam, cofounder of Eggnog! I previously worked at Meta on Facebook’s news feed and at Quora on creator monetization tools. My work on news feed helped reduce 10M+ daily views of hate speech and misinformation in countries at risk of violence. At Quora, I was the main data scientist for a new product that went 0 to $1M revenue in under 12 months. I studied Applied Math at Harvard.
Company Launches
Hi YC! We’re Sam and Jitesh, and we’re building Eggnog. We’re on a mission to enable everyone to create, share, and enjoy the magic of AI-generated videos with consistent characters.
Check out the most popular video made with Eggnog - it got 100k views on Twitter in 24 hours! Paul Graham even said it was funny!
AI Videos don’t have consistent characters
AI videos exploded in the past year, and we saw a deluge of content that was funny, spooky, and whimsical. But one thing has held these videos back from really being ready for primetime – AI video creators can’t create scenes with consistent characters.
Creators try every trick in the book to give their wizard the same wizened face from one scene to the next, but no matter, the wizard always looks different.
Inconsistent characters kill so much of the magic of AI videos. It’s hard to get invested in the protagonist of a story if they look different in every scene!
Eggnog
Eggnog gives creators the control to design their characters exactly how they imagine and lets them use those characters in cinematic scenes. This unlocks AI video creation that is immersive with characters that viewers get attached to.
Creators can also use and remix characters made by other Eggnog users, allowing creators to build worlds in a collaborative and social way.
We use a special mix of open-source diffusion models and post-processing to give creators control. Until now, the average creator couldn’t make a truly cinematic scene without a Hollywood budget for actors, sets, cameras, etc. Scenes from Interstellar, Dune, and Jurassic World were impossible to make without millions of dollars and months of time. But Eggnog changes that.
What’s next?
Character consistency is the foundation of entertaining AI video, but it’s only the beginning. We’re excited about a future where users can remix characters and scenes to build infinite storylines.
We’re going to make it possible for viewers to get engrossed in a cinematic universe and then expand on that universe in a collaborative and social way.
Team
We’re excited to empower the most creative people to tell the best stories.
A bit about us—
Sam: BA in Applied Math from Harvard. Previously worked on creator monetization tools at Quora that grew from 0 to $1M ARR in under a year and built an AI assistant for podcasters.
Jitesh: BS, MEng in CS from MIT, trained a language model to generate music lyrics and worked on image models to help pulmonologists. Previously a consultant at McKinsey and PM at Flexport
Asks
Eggnog is live! Make a video, post it on Twitter, and tag @jitsvm and @SamuelMGPlank
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