Real-Time AI Video Startup Reactor, Founded by Ex-Apple Engineers, Raises $59 Million From Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo and Others (EXCLUSIVE)

By Todd Spangler

Todd Spangler

NY Digital Editor

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Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results.

Now comes a Silicon Valley startup that says it can produce gen-AI video (and other outputs) in real time — a potentially groundbreaking advance: San Francisco-based Reactor, co-founded by Alberto Taiuti and Bryce Schmidtchen, two former technical leads for the Apple Vision Pro AR/VR headset.

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