Synthesia announces major hiring push, opens three new offices
THE SO WHAT
Video gen is graduating from feature to category—opening three offices and ramping hiring says they’re chasing local enterprise sales and production workflows, not just API volume. If you’re still treating synthetic video as an experiment, assume your competitors are about to industrialize it.
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