Victor Riparbelli

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720 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Eye On A.I. · Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

I also knew that I wasn't super interested in building accounting tools and bookkeeping tools and like normal business process stuff.

I've always loved science fiction.

I love French ideas.

I love the weird, wonderful corners of the internet and what's happening in the world.

And I wanted to combine my interest in building products with that.

So I moved to London.

And I spent a year figuring out what company I wanted to build, met a guy called Matthias Lister, who was an associate professor at Stanford at the time.

And he'd done a research paper called Face to Face, which is sort of the first research paper demonstrating a neural network producing very photorealistic video.

When we look back at it today, it's less impressive.

The world has moved on quite a lot, but I saw this and I felt like there's something very magical about it.

And as someone who loves creative things in my spare time, you know, I make music, dabbled in like Photoshop and a bit of video editing, 3D rendering.

I saw the technology, I was like, this is going to change everything we know about how we create video and media in general, and also how we consume it eventually.

So I decided to start a company around it, which took a while to convince Matthias.

I was 25 years old at the time.

And I think he thought I was, you know, he wasn't very interested in the beginning.

But with enough persistence, we kind of got there in the end.

And we ended up founding a company based on basically two big ideas.

The first one being that AI is increasingly going to be able to generate content, not just analyze patterns and data.

And that's going to change the equation around how we create content, right?

It's going to drive the marginal cost of creating content to zero.

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