A self-taught programmer from Kazakhstan helped build a company that went from making $20 million a year to making $20 million a week. Jensen Huang made his first ever trip to Kazakhstan this week, and on the same day Nvidia announced it had invested in that company. It's called Higgsfield, and in this clip Jensen calls its founders some of the brightest people in the world. The programmer is Yerzat Dulat, and he runs the models and the training infrastructure. His co-founder Alex Mashrabov had already done this once before. He built AI Factory, the face animation tech behind Snapchat's Cameos, and sold it to Snap for $166 million. Then he ran generative AI at Snap and led the team behind My AI, which got to 150 million users. In late 2023 he texted a friend that he was leaving Snap to…Read original on X
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Kazakh AI video startup Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Nvidia announced its investment in the company on the same day Jensen Huang visited Kazakhstan for the first time.
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Kazakh AI video startup Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Higgsfield, a Kazakh AI video startup, reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Kazakh AI video startup Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Kazakh AI video startup Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Kazakh AI startup Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue as Nvidia invests
Kazakh AI startup Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Higgsfield, a Kazakh AI startup, reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
Kazakh AI startup Higgsfield reaches $1 billion annualized revenue
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