Velvet: Helping AI pass the audiovisual Turing test

Velvet

Helping AI pass the audiovisual Turing test

Fall 2025

Active

https://velvet-videos.com

Helping AI pass the audiovisual Turing test

The platform where frontier research labs buy data to pass the audiovisual Turing test.

Active Founders

Lucas Mantovani

Founder

Co-founder, CEO of Velvet. Ex video data + youngest member @ Meta FAIR. CS honors @ UChicago. Brazilian olympiad medalist in Math + Physics.

Lucas Mantovani

Founder

Co-founder, CEO of Velvet. Ex video data + youngest member @ Meta FAIR. CS honors @ UChicago. Brazilian olympiad medalist in Math + Physics.

Lucas Tucker

Founder

Co-founder, CTO of Velvet. Ex-engineer @ Adobe working on petabyte-scale content delivery. Math & CS @ UChicago. Creating transformative datasets for frontier AI labs.

Lucas Tucker

Founder

Co-founder, CTO of Velvet. Ex-engineer @ Adobe working on petabyte-scale content delivery. Math & CS @ UChicago. Creating transformative datasets for frontier AI labs.

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