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SF YC W24 generative video AI with 1M+ videos and real-time Lemon Slice Live model; $6M seed from Matrix/Chainsmokers/Twitch-founder/Dropbox-co-founder competing with HeyGen and Tavus for expressive talking avatar AI from single photo.
Lemon Slice (formerly Infinity AI) is a San Francisco-based generative video AI platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $6 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, The Chainsmokers, Emmett Shear (Twitch founder and CEO), and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder and CTO) — providing content creators and developers with AI models for generating expressive talking characters and realistic human motion and emotion video from a single uploaded photo. Having generated 1 million+ videos on the platform, Lemon Slice introduced Lemon Slice Live — the first real-time audio-video AI model that enables live video chat with any character using AI-generated visual responses, representing a technical advancement from asynchronous video generation to synchronous real-time AI video interaction.
ByteDance — parent of TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao — is the world's most valuable private company at ~$550B, generating $186B revenue and ~$50B profit in 2025.
ByteDance is a Chinese technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming and headquartered in Beijing. It is the parent company of TikTok, Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), Toutiao (AI-powered news aggregator), and Lark (enterprise collaboration suite). ByteDance's core technology is a proprietary AI recommendation engine that personalizes content feeds across all its platforms, driving exceptional user engagement.
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