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Luma AI, known for its flagship creative product, Dream Machine Video Generator, is taking a step forward in global expansion with opening its first international office, and it's in London.

This follows its recent $900 million Series C investment, which was led by Humane.

Amit Jain is with us, co-founder, CEO of Luma AI.

I'm so pleased to join you.

I can't wait to get into reasoning video models, into the future of world models.

But first, Amit, why London?

I have a feeling Demis Hassabis over at DeepMind and the AI labs at Google will be having his ears pricked by that, Amit.

So why would people currently working or having been trained at DeepMind and the like want to jump ship to help build Ray 3, your reasoning video model?

Looking at some of the amazing video that you create, I can see how it goes into the creative sphere and to advertising and the like, but Amit, it feels as though this model, these world models, this move to perhaps more physical AI applications must open up different industries.

Amit, what is the biggest blocker to that or the thing that keeps you up?

Because at the moment you've got the money, boy, do you have the money, 900 million raised, but you've also got promise of compute coming from Saudi Arabia.

Is it about compute?

Is it more about the talent that is what you need to push through to get to your mission?

I mean, Jane, come back and tell us how you're continuing on that mission.