This AI Makes a Video Game World in 40 Milliseconds

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sits down with Dean Leitersdorf, cofounder and CEO of Decart, the creator of the only real-time video-to-video model in the world. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript.

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At first glance Dean Leitersdorf looks like every other startup founder on a Zoom call: wavy hair, spectacles, a plain black t-shirt.

Then mid-sentence he’s transformed into a wizard conjuring light from his hands. A few seconds later, he’s a Lego figurine, spectacles now molded in yellow plastic. Each avatar looks just like him, mirroring his expressions and movements in real time, from adjusting his glasses to the exact sync of his lips as he speaks.

This shape-shifting—which Leitersdorf showed off in the video recording of this week’s AI & I with Dan Shipper—was made possible by Mirage, the only real-time video-to-video model in the world. Mirage can take a live video feed (like Leitersdorf speaking on Zoom) and instantly re-render every frame in a new style, without breaking flow. It’s editing reality as it happens.