StudioNVIDIA and TCV back Higgsfield in its series B, which claims a $1B annual run rate
Original title: OpenAI killed Sora. now Nvidia is backing a company built mostly on other people’s video models
Relaying this week's Higgsfield funding news: NVIDIA and TCV joined its series B, on top of an august round valuing it at $5.4 billion; the company says it passed $1 billion in annual run rate in September and has over 40 million users, with most of the platform built on other companies' models like Kling and Veo. The author uses their own workflow mixing Kling, Seedance, Argil, and ElevenLabs to ask whether building models is now the bad business.
Using the author's own multi-tool video workflow, this post offers a perspective on how Higgsfield, aggregating others' video models, drew NVIDIA-backed funding while model builders may not be the winners.
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