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Higgsfield Watch

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AI video startup Higgsfield has attracted investment from Nvidia and TCV in a Series B extension, Bloomberg reports. The company says the funding will support global infrastructure and hiring as it seeks to meet growing demand.

Why it matters

Nvidia’s involvement puts a prominent AI-computing player behind a company building AI video tools. Bloomberg’s supplied account gives no investment amount, so the size of the backing remains unclear.

Discuss: In AI video, should investors focus more on building the infrastructure or on proving people will keep using the tools?

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    Bloomberg reports that Higgsfield says its media-generation platform has more than 40 million registered users. The figure adds a measure of the audience behind the company’s reported funding round, but it is a registered-user count, not a claim about monthly or daily active users.

    The company is based in San Francisco and has engineering talent in Kazakhstan, Bloomberg reports. That gives the global infrastructure and hiring plans a more concrete footprint, even if the report does not say how the new investment will be divided between them.

    For an AI video business, 40 million registrations is a notable reach figure. The next useful measure is how many people keep coming back to create, rather than merely signing up.

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    Update What changed

    Bloomberg reports that the investment from Nvidia and TCV was part of an extension to a $400 million funding round in August. The amount Nvidia and TCV invested was not disclosed, so the round total is not the size of their cheque.

    The report puts Higgsfield’s valuation at $5.4 billion in the round. That gives the backing a more useful scale, even if the precise contribution from the two investors remains unknown.

    Bloomberg also reports that Higgsfield has a bulk of its engineering talent in Kazakhstan. The new detail adds a concrete figure and a clearer company footprint to the funding news, without telling us how much of the money is earmarked for infrastructure or hiring.

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    Startup Fortune reports that Higgsfield said its annualised revenue run rate passed $1bn in September, up from $200m in January. Those are company figures reported by the publication, not independently established revenue results; still, the claimed rise gives a sharper sense of the growth behind the funding news.

    The report adds that Higgsfield’s registered users span more than 200 countries. A previous update noted the company’s claim of more than 40 million registrations; the geographic spread is new detail, though registrations do not tell us how many people actively use the service.

    Startup Fortune describes Higgsfield’s products as the mobile-first Diffuse and the longer-form ReelMagic, which let creators and brands generate and edit video and images.

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