A previous version of this article said the founders of Pika had PhDs in AI. The two dropped out of their PhD programs before completing them. The article has been corrected. SAN FRANCISCO — AI ...

The Palo Alto, California-based startup co-founded by two Stanford AI PhD dropouts Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng and funded to the tune of $135 million so far, unveiled its new Pika 1.5 text-to-video ...

Pika was co-founded by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, both former PhD students in Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Prior to studying at Stanford, Guo worked as an engineer at Meta’s AI ...