Familiar

Multimodal Translation

YC Summer 2026Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIB2BEntertainment

About Familiar

Familiar is the Neolab for world translation. Dubbing into 30 languages. Now with Familiar, the same actor's performance is preserved instead of a mismatched voice over a mismatched face. One model does the voice, the lips, and the scene together, with identity permanence and scene & world understanding. Built by the researchers who pioneered joint audio-visual human models.

Founders

  • Mingi Kwon

    Founder

    AI PhD from Yonsei University. Built large-scale text-to-video models at Adobe Research and published at top AI conferences. Previously operated localized YouTube channels with 400K+ total subscribers.

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  • An Zhu Liu

    Founder

    Stanford dropout. Tinkerer & researcher. Built the most realistic real-time human avatars with unmatched cloning accuracy early 2026. Trained personally on multiple nodes of B200s.

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  • Xu Zheng

    Founder

    AI PhD from HKUST, 30+ publications on top-tier AI venues with 2k+ citations and 2k+ github stars.

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