Our fundamental work in AI includes: Denoising Diffusion Models, Imagen: Google’s text-to-image system, Imagen Video for video synthesis, WaveGrad for speech synthesis, neural speech recognition, neural machine translation, contrastive learning for learning visual representations, and generative adversarial imitation learning. We have raised a total of $16.5 million in seed financing led by a16z and Index Ventures. Several other investors participated in the round, including AIX Ventures, Golden Ventures, Two Small Fish Ventures, and industry experts Ryan Dahl, Anjney Midha, Raquel Urtasun, Jeff Dean, Sarah Guo, Pieter Abbeel, Mahyar Salek, Soleio, Tom Preston-Werner, Andrej Karpathy.