Hedra
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Talking-character studio from Hedra: turns photos and audio into video where the face matches the speech and retains expressions. The focus is on its own avatar models alongside third-party video models on one canvas.
Facts
- Character-3, released in March 2025, processes visuals, text, and audio simultaneously and handles lip sync and character movement.
- A $32 million Series A led by a16z Infrastructure was announced on May 15, 2025; $44 million raised in total, with a valuation of around $200 million.
- By the time of the round, users had created more than 10 million videos in Hedra (company announcement, May 15, 2025).
- As of Aug 19, 2026, the product storefront is Creative Studio with a shared canvas: its own Hedra Avatar model plus third-party Kling 2.6 Pro for video and Flux 1.1 Ultra for images; the company claims more than 125 thousand businesses have worked with its models.
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