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D-ID

D-ID is an information technology company that creates AI-based image generating software.

Israel, Asia Disrupt SF 2018

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Founded Date

2017

Industries
AI/Machine Learning Security & Privacy Software
Operating Status

Open

Website

www.d-id.com

Founders

Gil Perry Founder

News About D-ID

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AI

D-ID’s newest app uses AI to make videos from photographs

Sarah Perez

D-ID, the Tel Aviv-based startup best known as the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, is bringing its AI video technology to a new mobile app, launching today. Originally available as a web platform, D-ID’s Creative Reality Studio allows users to upload a still image and script and then turn that into […]

D-ID's new web app
AI

D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Aisha Malik

D-ID, the Israeli startup behind Deep Nostalgia, announced today that it’s launching the beta version of its new web app that allows users to talk face-to-face with photorealistic AI. The web app, called chat.D-ID, combines D-ID’s text-to-video streaming technology with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to make conversations with AI more accessible. The startup’s CEO and co-founder, Gil […]

AI

D-ID unveils new chat API to enable face-to-face conversations with an AI digital human

Aisha Malik

D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique experiences like Deep Nostalgia, announced today that it’s launching a new chat API to enable face-to-face conversations with an AI digital human. The announcement was timed to coincide with Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is taking place in Barcelona this week. The company is currently […]

D-ID Creative Reality platform
Apps

D-ID, the company behind Deep Nostalgia, lets you create AI-generated videos from a single image

Ivan Mehta

Israeli AI company D-ID, which provided technology for projects like Deep Nostalgia, is launching a new platform where users can upload a single image and text to generate video. With this new site called Creative Reality Studio, the company is targeting sectors like corporate training and education, internal and external communication from companies, product marketing […]

AI

AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M

Sarah Perez

D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos, announced today the raise of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Macquarie Capital. The additional funds shortly follow D-ID’s recent launch of its Deep Nostalgia […]

AI

MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice

Sarah Perez

Last year, genealogy service MyHeritage went viral after introducing a new “deepfake” feature that allowed users to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. TikTok users posted videos reacting to the technology, called “Deep Nostalgia,” as they brought back relatives they never got to meet or those whose loss they still grieved. To […]

AI

D-ID launches ‘Speaking Portrait,’ a way to turn photos into custom, photo-realistic videos

Darrell Etherington

The company whose tech powered the sensational MyHeritage app that turned classic family photos into lifelike moving portraits is back with a new implementation of its technology: Transforming still photographs into ultra-realistic video, capable of saying whatever you want. D-ID’s Speaking Portraits may look like the notorious “deepfakes” that have made headlines over the past […]

AI

MyHeritage now lets you animate old family photos using deepfakery

Natasha Lomas

AI-enabled synthetic media is being used as a tool for manipulating real emotions and capturing user data by genealogy service MyHeritage, which has just launched a new feature — called “deep nostalgia” — that lets users upload a photo of a person (or several people) to see individual faces animated by algorithm. The Black Mirror-style […]

getty facial face recognition
Privacy

D-ID, the Israeli company that digitally de-identifies faces in videos and still images, raises $13.5 million

Jonathan Shieber

If only Facebook had been using the kind of technology that TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus D-ID was pitching, it could have avoided exposing all of our faces to privacy destroying software services like Clearview AI. At least, that’s the pitch that D-ID’s founder and chief executive, Gil Perry, makes when he’s talking about the significance […]

AI

D-ID launches its initial product with customers in printing, automotive and financial services

Jonathan Shieber

D-ID, the company developing software to scramble facial recognition technologies, has signed its first customers and launched its initial product onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The culmination of an idea that was 14 years in the making, D-ID’s technology is being sold as both a service and as an enterprise software solution on-premise for […]

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Startups

Announcing Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2018

Samantha Stein

Every year, TechCrunch chooses an elite cohort of startups to compete in Startup Battlefield — TechCrunch’s premier global startup launch competition. This year’s selection was the most competitive in Startup Battlefield history and we’re excited for you to watch these innovative startups duke it out on the Main Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018. Companies are […]

AI

D-ID’s tech protects your privacy by confounding face recognition algorithms

Catherine Shu

Unless you literally wear a mask all the time, it is almost impossible to completely avoid cameras and face recognition technology. Not only is this a privacy concern, but it also presents a potential liability for companies that need to protect personal data. D-ID, a startup currently taking part in Y Combinator, wants to solve the problem with tools that process images to make them unrecognizable to face recognition algorithms, but still look similar to the original picture.