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Updated June 15, 2026HeyGen is an AI video generation platform that enables users to create professional-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices. Founded in 2020 by Joshua Xu and Wayne Liang, the company has grown rapidly and raised over $60 million to serve marketing teams, educators, and content creators.
HeyGen's platform allows users to create videos by simply typing a script — the AI generates a realistic talking-head video with a digital avatar, complete with natural lip sync, gestures, and expressions. The platform offers over 100 stock avatars, custom avatar creation (from a few minutes of recorded video), and AI voice cloning in 40+ languages. HeyGen's Instant Avatar and Video Translate features have been particularly popular for creating multilingual marketing content.
HeyGen serves enterprise customers for training videos, product demos, and personalized sales outreach, as well as individual creators who need video content without the cost and complexity of traditional video production. The company competes with Synthesia, D-ID, and other AI avatar platforms in the rapidly growing synthetic media market.