Joshua Xu
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Co-Founder and CEO @HeyGen | Make visual storytelling accessible to all.
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Today we’re introducing you to the future of video. The world’s first Creative Operating System, we call it the HeyGen Video Agent. Upload a doc, some footage, or even just a sentence. It analyzes your input. Finds the story. Writes the script with taste. Selects the shots or generates the footage. Casts your actor. And edits everything… Pacing. Motion. Captions. An entire creative team built to tell your story. Whether it’s ads, TikToks, short films, product demos, or any other idea you’re dreaming up. Join the waitlist below. 👇
Joshua Xu7,382,687 views • 11 months ago
Five years ago, Wayne L. and I founded HeyGen on a simple, yet powerful belief: everyone has a story to tell. But most people avoid the lens, and premium production isn’t in every budget. So we set out to democratize video creation and make visual storytelling accessible to everyone. Today, we take the next, most significant leap in that journey with three big announcements: 1. A new HeyGen Our new brand reflects our evolution from an AI video tool to an indispensable creative operating system. You’ll see our new look reflected on our website and in the app. 2. Video Agent public beta Video Agent is now in public beta and available to all HeyGen users. It’s the creative operating system that transforms a single prompt into a complete, publishable video across all your needs. 3. Alisa joins HeyGen To accelerate our mission, we have acquired Alisa by Genova Labs, a true pioneer in intelligent multimedia agents. With this new addition, we are also thrilled to welcome its founder, Bin Liu, to lead our new Video Agent product. Join us as we welcome the Alisa team and write the next chapter of HeyGen, together.
Joshua Xu3,266,932 views • 8 months ago
Seedance 2.0 is now in HeyGen Everyone's using Seedance to generate cinematic video with any character. We just made that character you. Introducing Avatar Shots - your likeness, consistent across scenes. Dynamic motion. Multiple avatars in the same shot. Same face. Way more range. Only available through business email verification for all regions except US and Japan. RT + comment "SEEDANCE" for 100 HeyGen credits (must follow)
Joshua Xu598,042 views • 2 months ago
Introducing Avatar V. We’ve solved character consistency. Forever. Record yourself once for 15 seconds. From there, you can show up anywhere, in any look, and it still feels like you. Any photo becomes a video that looks, moves, and speaks like you, down to your mannerisms and quirks. This is the most advanced AI avatar model in the world. And we know that’s a big claim, so we brought the data to prove it. Thread below:
Joshua Xu531,593 views • 1 month ago
Most companies are already dying. They just don’t know it yet. They’ve been doing knowledge transfer wrong for 20 years. PPT. Deck review. Approval. Film. Edit. Publish. By the time the video is live, it’s already outdated. We partnered with Gamma to cut that entire process down to a prompt. RT + comment "DECK" below and I'll send you a guide to replace broken knowledge transfer with one workflow.
Joshua Xu257,382 views • 2 months ago
![[NEW] - Joshua Avatar 2.0 🤖✨. Both of these video clips were 100% AI-generated, featuring my own avatar and voice clone. 🎙️🎥 We've made massive enhancements to our life-style avatar's video quality and fine-tuned our voice technology to mimic my unique accent and speech patterns perfectly. 🚀🔊 Let me know how you like it. 💛 This will be soon deployed to production and everyone can try it out! 🔜🌐](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1689019874667024384/ext_tw_video_thumb/1689019353151471616/pu/img/e5UuBQgF5CAq7RU7.jpg)
[NEW] - Joshua Avatar 2.0 🤖✨. Both of these video clips were 100% AI-generated, featuring my own avatar and voice clone. 🎙️🎥 We've made massive enhancements to our life-style avatar's video quality and fine-tuned our voice technology to mimic my unique accent and speech patterns perfectly. 🚀🔊 Let me know how you like it. 💛 This will be soon deployed to production and everyone can try it out! 🔜🌐
Joshua Xu3,191,795 views • 2 years ago
The HeyGen avatar skill is available for Claude Code now. I was playing around with Remotion + HeyGen to make a talking video. It works great! Here’s how you can do it: - Install the remotion skill - Install the heygen avatar skill: npx add-skill heygen-com/skills - Set up your HEYGEN_API_KEY (we offer free API credits if you have a HeyGen account) - Start prompting Check out the example video made with HeyGen + Remotion + Claude Code.
Joshua Xu145,879 views • 4 months ago
People obsess over posting cadence, hooks, and algorithms. But bad video quality kills all of it before the algorithm even has a chance. We partnered with Topaz to bring Starlight Precise 2.5 inside HeyGen. The best upscaling model in the world can now be part of your workflow. Any resolution in. 4K out. RT + comment "UPSCALER" below and I'll send you 100 credits to try it out. Must follow.
Joshua Xu56,114 views • 2 months ago
Your Digital Twin is now indistinguishable from you. Today, I’m proud to announce that HeyGen Digital Twin is now powered by Avatar IV, the world’s most advanced avatar model. Your Digital Twin now: ✅Mirrors your gestures, expressions, and mannerisms ✅Adapts to your script, speaking every line how you would ✅Moves like you, naturally, from head to toe ✅Feels unmistakably you, not AI For the first time, you can create videos that look, sound, and feel like the real you without the stress of filming or endless retakes. This is more than convenience. It is the edge every creator, entrepreneur, service provider and executive has been waiting for. Whether you are building a brand, educating customers, or reaching new audiences, your Digital Twin makes it seamless. Grow your presence without sacrificing your time. Focus on what you do best. Your Digital Twin handles the rest. ⚡ Available now on HeyGen.
Joshua Xu197,036 views • 9 months ago
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We have incorporated HeyGen's avatar model to work seamlessly with Sora, and the results are truly next-level. This is probably the most advanced talking avatar video to date—outperforming real actors in many scenarios. With this, we can precisely fine-tune movements, expressions, and actions without the hassle of repeatedly reshooting real actors. Plus, there's no limit to how long these videos can be. This isn't a digital clone—it's a fully AI-generated human avatar. Check it out!
Joshua Xu179,230 views • 1 year ago
So excited to announce HeyGen's new Avatar 3.0! Our avatars have evolved beyond lip-syncing to feature full-body dynamic motion. For the first time, our avatars' facial expressions and voice tones are dynamically generated to perfectly match the script. Available at heygen.\com today!
Joshua Xu109,940 views • 1 year ago
Director Mode Avatar: We can use a text instruction to guide our avatar on how to deliver the content—not just the tone of voice, but also the facial expressions and movements. Check it out 👇 Start with Whispering: A real whisper—soft, secretive, but friendly and playful. As if you're letting the listener in on something just between the two of you. Keep the energy light and curious, not seductive. Smile gently through the whisper, especially on phrases like 'maybe' or 'you're still here.' Think: 'Psst, hey—listen to this. More in the 🧵
Joshua Xu66,119 views • 1 year ago
I was amazed by the voice quality of Google's NotebookLM. I integrated the audio with our Avatar 3.0, and the results are incredible—look at the head nods, smiles, attentive listening, eyebrow raises, body motion, and expressions! Ready to turn a blog post into a video podcast?
Joshua Xu73,794 views • 1 year ago
🚨 NEW in Avatar IV: Prompting Gesture Control For the first time ever, prompt your AI avatar to do it all: speak, gesture, and move its body — with meaning. Avatar IV performs with lifelike hand and body motion that follows every word. Now available to everyone on HeyGen — because you deserve more than just a talking head. 👇 See what’s now possible:
Joshua Xu41,017 views • 1 year ago
I'm beyond excited to announce our new Avatar Looks feature at HeyGen ! 🎉 Now, with just one verification, you can upload as much footage as you want to unlock unlimited styles for your avatar. Change up your backgrounds, outfits, stances, and camera angles to make your videos more engaging than ever before. We've also added 50+ new avatars and 400+ new footage clips to inspire your creativity. 🎬 I can't wait to see the amazing content you'll create with it. Unlimited looks, unlimited creativity! ✨
Joshua Xu56,825 views • 1 year ago
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