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How China’s synthetic media startup Surreal nabs funding in 3 months



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What if we no longer needed cameras to make videos and can instead generate them through a few lines of coding?
Advances in machine learning are turning the idea into a reality. We’ve seen how deepfakes swap faces in family photos and turn one’s selfies into famous video clips. Now entrepreneurs with AI research background are devising tools to let people generate highly realistic photos, voices, and videos using algorithms.
One of the startups building this technology is China-based Surreal. The company is merely three months old but has already secured a seed round of $2-3 million from …

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