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Christoph Lassner and the Long Road From Pixels to Places
He began by asking computers to see a human body in a photograph. After years of work on rendering, avatars and spatial AI, he is asking what happens when a digital world can respond to us.
Alex Yu and the Art of Making a Picture Move
He helped make a 3D world from a few photographs, then helped put that idea in people’s hands. After Luma AI, Alex Yu has turned his attention to image generation.
Amit Jain
Amit Jain is the Co-Founder and CEO of Luma AI, the Palo Alto-based AI company behind Dream Machine - a text-to-video platform with over 25 million users - and Ray 3, the world's first reasoning video model. Before founding Luma AI in 2021, he spent four years at Apple leading development of the Passthrough feature for Apple Vision Pro and integrating the first LiDAR sensors into iPhones. Under his leadership, Luma AI has raised over $1 billion in funding including a $900M Series C led by HUMAIN at a $4 billion valuation, and is building unified multimodal intelligence systems that blur the line between reasoning and reality synthesis.