Indian American-founded AI startup Viva Labs launched their new platform VivaChat earlier today. With the latest launch, video chatting with realistic AI-generated clones of people is made possible, the startup claims.
Viva Labs, part of Y Combinator’s class of 2022, leveraged OpenAI ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode and went next level with it by incorporating video. The AI-based startup created a new solution in the video communication sphere with VivaChat, aspiring to foster authentic conversations with AI personalities.
VivaChat lets you video chat with an AI therapist, a digital marketing consultant, an English language tutor, or even a tech recruiter. The company claims that the real-time avatars can offer conversation to individuals with personal goals such as ranting about your week to your AI therapist, improving your language skills with an AI tutor or practicing mock job interviews with an interviewer among the many possible scenarios for the tool. But the platform isn’t limited to personal use.
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VivaChat plans for large-scale integration in enterprises and encourages business uses of the platform such as sales by engaging with prospects through sales processes; HR avatars for conducting virtual interviews or answering employee questions; AI educational speakers for trainings and events; integration of avatars with websites, e-commerce stores, etc.
VivaChat isn’t Viva Labs’ only release; the predecessor VivaDub is an AI tool to translate, dub and lip sync videos in any language, letting users reach a global audience.
Founded by two Harvard alumni, Vishal Jain and Varun Jain, Viva Labs raised $500,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Y Combinator in 2022, according to Crunchbase.
Vishal, formerly an engineer at Microsoft, Cohesity, and Clumio, had his first encounter with entrepreneurship when he founded ZeusCloud, an open-source cloud security platform in 2022.
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Varun, who previously worked at Neeva, Facebook, Skydio, is Vishal’s co-founding partner with ZeusCloud as well as Viva Labs.
The duo showcased their new tool with a video of them humorously roasting each other using their VivaChat AI avatars, and claimed that it will “transform how companies and individuals engage with AI.”