The Future of AI Avatars and DeepFake Technology w/ Joshua Xu & Steve Brown | EP #161

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Apr 3, 2025

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Steve Brown

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Joshua Xu

Joshua Xu, co-founder of HeyGen, and Steve Brown, Chief AI Officer at Abundance360, dive deep into the revolutionary world of AI avatars and deepfake technology. They discuss how AI can transform video content creation, enabling avatars to attend meetings and engage clients, which streamlines business communication. The duo also tackles the ethical challenges of deepfakes, emphasizing consent and security. Personal digital avatars, their benefits in health tech, and AI's potential to revolutionize storytelling add exciting dimensions to their engaging conversation.

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INSIGHT

Future of AI Avatars and Agents

Individuals can easily visualize ideas, and businesses can create more engaging content with AI avatars.
AI agents will soon interact through video interfaces, allowing for personalized, multilingual communication.

ANECDOTE

PeterBot Anecdote

Peter Diamandis's chief AI officer, Steve Brown, created a "PeterBot" avatar.
PeterBot was more eloquent and knowledgeable than Diamandis himself, highlighting the potential of AI avatars.

ADVICE

Preserve Family History

Record your parents' or grandparents' stories and voices, creating a digital avatar if possible.
This preserves family history for future generations, allowing them to interact with their ancestors.

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In this episode, recorded at the 2025 Abundance Summit, Joshua Xu dives into HeyGen, the future of AI avatars, and Steve Brown displays a use case for AI clones.

Recorded on March 10th, 2025

Views are my own thoughts; not Financial, Medical, or Legal Advice.

Joshua Xu is the co-founder and CEO of HeyGen, an AI-powered video creation platform revolutionizing how businesses produce content by making video production significantly faster, cheaper, and scalable across languages. With a background in software engineering at Meta and Bloomberg LP, Xu brings deep technical expertise to his role, driving HeyGen’s rapid growth to over $35 million in annual recurring revenue. A graduate of Duke University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he’s passionate about leveraging AI to democratize high-quality video communication for companies around the world.

Steve Brown is a technologist and filmmaker passionate about media and innovation that strengthen human connection and sustainability. With a Physics degree from Stanford, he’s founded and sold two tech startups and developed award-winning documentaries. As Chief AI Officer at Abundance360, he builds tools that help people harness AI and exponential tech for creativity and impact.

Learn more about HeyGen: https://www.heygen.com/

Learn more about Abundance360: https://bit.ly/ABUNDANCE360

For free access to the Abundance Summit Summary click: https://bit.ly/Diamandisbreakthroughs

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