Pro Weekly: How AI Is Taking Over the Creator Economy

Creator economy investors are basically artificial intelligence investors these days. I took a look at second-quarter venture funding in our Creator Economy Database, and it’s clear that investors are looking beyond the now-common AI image- and video-generation tools to focus on a crop of specialized AI products for creators. 

AI video-generation startups like seven-year-old Runway continue to raise big sums (the company raised more than $300 million in April at a $3.3 billion valuation). But investors are also betting on startups like Delphi, which creates AI clones of creators and raised $16 million in June, and Linguana, which uses AI to dub content into different languages and raised $8.5 million in April.