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Rong Yan shared thisI recently sat down with the team at #Canva for their "Prompted" podcast to discuss a shift we are seeing across every industry: the transition from static, manual content to dynamic, AI-driven video. - At HeyGen, our mission has always been to make visual storytelling accessible to everyone. In this episode, I share my thoughts on: - The Evolution of Video Agents: Why the next generation of AI isn’t just about "generating" content, but about creating interactive, intelligent video agents that work for you. - Speed to Value: How we’re helping teams turn structured data—like spreadsheets or documents—into engaging video in a matter of minutes. - Democratizing Creativity: Why the future of work belongs to the "orchestrators"—those who use AI to scale their ideas without the traditional barriers of production. It was a pleasure chatting with Cameron Adams and the Canva team about how our platforms are coming together to redefine how we communicate at work. You can watch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gtHjS_68 I’d love to hear your thoughts: How is your team using (or planning to use) AI video to scale your message? Let’s discuss in the comments. 🚀 #AI #GenerativeAI #VideoAI #HeyGen #Canva #FutureOfWork #CTOInsights #Innovation
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Rong Yan reposted thisRong Yan reposted thisWe're honored to be included in the inaugural Prosumer AI 40 by Notable Capital, which recognizes 40 AI-native tools shaping the future of the stack, nominated by 30 leading VC firms. The list recognizes tools giving individuals capabilities once reserved for well-funded teams. That's been HeyGen's north star from day one: make world-class video creation accessible to everyone. Big moment for us, bigger signal for where video is going. Grateful to our customers, our team, and the broader ecosystem pushing this category forward. Appreciate everyone building with us. See the full list → https://lnkd.in/gb94Zw9c
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Rong Yan reposted thisRong Yan reposted thisHeyGen just launched HyperFrames. Every era of enterprise gets a new format. Memos → email. Decks → PowerPoint. Documents → HTML. Video communication never made the jump. And it was never something software could write. Today HeyGen open-sourced HyperFrames. It turns HTML into video. That means an AI agent can now write (and edit) a video the same way it writes an email. And with Digital Twin, your face and voice sign off on it. So the message is trusted, not a deepfake. A CEO update to 80,000 employees. In 40 languages. Personalized. Signed by you. Email became infrastructure. Slides became infrastructure. Video is next. HeyGen 💜🚀
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Rong Yan shared thisForbes 2026 AI 50 List | Top Artificial Intelligence CompaniesForbes 2026 AI 50 List | Top Artificial Intelligence Companies
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Rong Yan reposted thisRong Yan reposted thisBringing our SOTA Avatar V to life has been a true team effort across research and engineering—tackling challenges that are as complex as they are exciting. A few areas we’ve been pushing forward: • Data curation: https://lnkd.in/g8GmUBhz • Inference optimization: https://lnkd.in/gSNRnssk • Multi-cloud GPU platform: https://lnkd.in/gUiGPjhk Proud of the work and the collaboration behind it. DM me if you are interested in large scale AI infra, performance optimization and agentic platform. #infra #ai #video #agentHELIOS: Unified GPU Infrastructure for AI at ScaleHELIOS: Unified GPU Infrastructure for AI at Scale
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Rong Yan shared thisToday we are releasing the new SOTA digital human model, Avatar V!! You can record yourself once for 15 seconds. From there, you can show up anywhere, in any look, and it still feels like you. We also released our technical reports for the tech / research community as well as the objective / human evaluation results. Avatar V has outperformed the main-stream video models including Kling / Seedance, Veo3 and Omnihuman for digital human modeling tasks. Learn more: X post: https://lnkd.in/gAb85dvZ Tech report: https://lnkd.in/gyW6nb75Avatar V: Scaling Video-Reference Avatar GenerationAvatar V: Scaling Video-Reference Avatar Generation
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Rong Yan shared thisApril will be a big month and we start by announcing two major partnership / release today! https://lnkd.in/dC58EuRZ Seedance 2.0! We are the only platform allowing human faces in the API built on top of first-party identity verification and consent system. Thanks to BytePlus for the partnership. https://lnkd.in/dPwqY4kB Gamma! Now you can make PPT video with one prompt. Great to join force with Gamma team. More to come.
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Rong Yan shared thisExcited to be named one of the most innovative video companies in 2026 by Fast Company. Proud of the team! https://lnkd.in/g-KTC4Zq
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Rong Yan reposted thisRong Yan reposted thisI created an AI agent on Agent .ai that turns blog posts into Avatar videos. The problem I'm trying to solve: I write a lot of content, but most of it reaches only a subset of its potential audience because many people prefer video. I also just dislike being in front of a camera (my natural habitat is being in front of a computer). So we built an agent that removes that friction entirely. Here's how it works: 1) Paste in your blog post URL or text 2) Choose from a list of HeyGen avatars 3) Wait about 5-10 minutes for an email with your video We're making the first three videos free for all agent.ai users -- we'd love your feedback! Will people engage with AI avatars as much as the real me? I don't know. But the avatar delivers content well enough, and it lets me focus on what I'm better at: writing. What do you think? Could you tell this video was not the real me without reading this post? I'm guessing you could -- but it's pretty good, right?
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Rong Yan liked thisRong Yan liked thisVideo used to be a destination. It's becoming a capability your existing tools already have. Across 15 launches in April, that shift came into focus. Here's what we shipped. Avatar V is the most advanced avatar model ever. One 15-second recording generates a year of on-brand video featuring you in different outfits, settings, and angles. Seedance 2.0 lets your Digital Twin appear in cinematic scenes with dynamic camera work and up to three Digital Twins in a single shot. No other avatar platform offers identity-verified human faces at this level. Instant Highlights v2 turns long-form content like podcasts, webinars, and keynotes into publish-ready clips, translated into 175 languages and dialects with built-in lip-sync. For developers, HyperFrames (Apache 2.0), HeyGen CLI, and HeyGen Skills for Claude Code and Cursor let your AI agent write, render, and ship video as a native part of your stack. New integrations with Gamma and Granola automatically turn decks into narrated presentations and meeting notes into recap videos. Read the full April roundup → https://lnkd.in/geJSScHs
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Rong Yan liked thisRong Yan liked thisI recently joined an early-stage startup focused on building a next-generation AI agentic video platform. We are looking to hire 2 Staff-level engineers to join us early in this journey and help shape the platform from the ground up. If you are passionate about AI-native products, agentic workflows, and scalable product systems, I’d love to connect and share more details. We will be coming out of stealth very soon and will open the product to the public. www.getgtv.com
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Rong Yan liked thisRong Yan liked thisWhat an honor to be on the 2026 #Gold100 list of impactful leaders shaping global culture. I'm humbled to be in the same class as the 2025 #ModernCEO of year Revathi Advaithi of Flex; friends such as Reshma Saujani of Moms First and Theresia Gouw of Acrew Capital; giants such as Vinod Khosla and Procter & Gamble CEO Shailesh Jejurikar; and creative folks like the trio from Proximity Media (No. 10 on Fast Company 2026 Most Innovative Companies list): Sev Ohanian, Zinzi Coogler, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw. The complete list celebrating #goldexcellence in 2026 is here: https://lnkd.in/dM9X5rDG
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Rong Yan liked thisRong Yan liked thisJust wrapped up a whirlwind week in London. Three long days, three awesome events: ☕️ Discussing AI with customers at a pop-up at Early Bees Coffee in Holborn 🎤 Speaking to a packed audience at Learning Technologies Exhibition & Conference and tabling with the team 🍸 Hosting an intimate dinner with L&D leaders at a historic riverside pub in Docklands It was a pleasure to speak on behalf of HeyGen and share my perspective on the transformative potential of deploying AI video across a global workforce. What stood out from hundreds of conversations this week: Most leaders aren’t asking whether to use AI video anymore. The most pressing question is how to deploy it to maximum effect. The teams getting it right aren’t fine with middling results or flashy proofs of concept. They’re rebuilding their content infrastructure so a single source of truth can be finalized, translated, and shipped in hours and days, not weeks and months. And doing it with the best AI avatars in history. 🤖 📹 Custom avatar filming at the pop-up was the highlight for me. Hundreds of aspiring creators walked away with their own avatar in just a few minutes each. That moment when someone watches themselves speak fluent Portuguese or Japanese for the first time never gets old. Huge thanks to Emilie Marenec, Brandi Cavender, Christian S, Alex Baldridge, Brandon Satterfield, Teodora P L, and Hernán Fariñas Vales for making it all happen. And to the leaders from pharma, financial services, automotive, retail, the public sector, and more who came by: thank you for the conversations. There will more to come from us next week. Onto the next one. Literally. In 2 weeks! Oh, and I was able to squeeze in some time for culture too. London, I will be back for more 🇬🇧🕰️
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Rong Yan liked thisRong Yan liked thisTwenty-four years ago, I arrived in the United States with $2,000 in cash—what I had to build the life I couldn’t pack in a suitcase, with 30 days until my scholarship kicked in. Excited. Scared. Full of hope, and full of uncertainty. This week, I returned to the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information for its graduation ceremony—this time as the keynote speaker. Coming back full circle felt especially meaningful, because those five years in Pittsburgh were one of the few periods in my life that truly reshaped me. I’m forever grateful to the people who got me through those early days— advisors who took a chance on me before I had proof and invested in me fully, Pitt staff whose care and patience helped me find my footing in a new country, and friends who turned uncertainty into belonging and the hardest days into memories. Looking back, it’s clear—those uncertain beginnings were doing more than I understood at the time. Growth rarely announces itself in the moment—quiet, uncomfortable, and far from what we celebrate—only revealing its shape with time. #Graduation #Gratitude #Growth #Reflection University of Pittsburgh Alexandros Labrinidis Panos K. Chrysanthis Bruce Childers Daniel Mosse Di Chang Shukang Zhou
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Rong Yan liked thisRong Yan liked thisApril 2026 became a milestone for me. I was spotlighted as one of HeyGen’s standout ambassadors — and for me, this is more than recognition. It is proof that AI video is moving from experimentation to real media systems. During the global ambassador all-hands, the HeyGen team shared major updates around Avatar 5, V3 for developers, API, CLI, MCP, open-source direction, and new opportunities for events, workshops, and community growth. What made this moment especially meaningful for me is that I’m not just exploring AI video tools — I’m building with them. I create content across YouTube and LinkedIn, work in multiple languages, collaborate with other ambassadors, and develop scalable workflows for AI video production, automation, and content systems. From Angel Swert News to Angel Swert Finance content, kids content (Trinity Advanture Kids), and automation workflows with Make + HeyGen, my focus is clear: building practical AI media systems with real-world use cases. This spotlight was not only about content. It was about vision, consistency, and showing what becomes possible when creativity meets automation. If you’re exploring AI avatars, AI video production, content automation, or scalable media workflows for business — let’s connect. Try HeyGen: https://lnkd.in/dnSk6pMZ AI consultations: info@angelswert.de Automation & content: https://lnkd.in/ePM-xnPj Watch here: Angel Swert News RU: https://lnkd.in/dSxrZwSf Angel Swert News (EN): https://lnkd.in/dUDjvQB2 HeyGen #HeyGen #HeyGenAmbassador #AIvideo #AIAvatars #ContentAutomation #AIMarketing #VideoAutomation #YouTubeAutomation #DigitalCreator #PersonalBranding #GenerativeAI #AIforBusiness #ContentStrategy #AngelSwert #angelswertnews #angelswertvideoproduction #aiangelswertHeyGen Spotlighted My Work in April 2026 | AI Video, Automation & Ambassador JourneyHeyGen Spotlighted My Work in April 2026 | AI Video, Automation & Ambassador Journey
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