WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down – TechCrunch

Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. WaveOne hopes to change that by taking the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and making them AI-powered -- while somehow avoiding the pitfalls that would-be codec revolutionizers and "AI-powered" startups often fall into. The startup has until recently limited itself to showing its results in papers and presentations, but with a recently raised $6.5M seed round, they are ready to move towards testing and deploying their actual product. It's no niche: video compression may seem a bit in the weeds to some, but there's no doubt it's become one of the most important processes of the modern internet.