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Nvidia invests in Higgsfield, the app that resells AI video models to creators

Nvidia and TCV did not say how much they invested. Higgsfield's $1 billion annual pace is four weeks of revenue times 13, unaudited, and Higgsfield buys Nvidia chips.

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Nvidia and the growth investor TCV have put money into Higgsfield, the app many AI filmmakers use to reach Seedance, Kling and Wan from one login. Neither has said how much, and no new valuation is on record. The only public price is still August's: $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation. Nvidia's Jensen Huang, in Kazakhstan that week, kept his comment general: "The first thing and the last thing is you invest in people, not companies."

Higgsfield says it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue in September. Its own blog explains the math: the last four weeks of revenue, multiplied by 13. By our arithmetic that is roughly $77 million in four weeks, and no auditor has signed it.

The money also runs in a circle. Higgsfield buys Nvidia chips and says it is moving to Nvidia's next generation, Vera Rubin. A supplier investing in a fast-growing buyer is ordinary strategy, and it is not Nvidia's first bet on AI video: it has backed Runway twice.

The stronger case for Higgsfield is its own demand. It reached a claimed $1 billion pace without owning the most popular model it sells, which suggests makers will pay for one login, one credit balance and quick access to whatever launched this week.

Anyone budgeting a short film on Higgsfield should watch how the bill is changing. Subscriptions were once more than 90% of Higgsfield's revenue and are now just over 60%, with the rest charged per generation.

Our take: Nvidia's money is a vote for Higgsfield's demand, not proof that apps reselling other labs' models beat the labs themselves. Keep comparing its per-second prices with the labs' own, and keep your projects portable.

Full story, with the per-second price table, via the

Source: Higgsfield's release and blog, Variety and CNBC, Oct 23, 2026.

Read the full article: thegenerated.com/stories/higgsfield-nvidia-tcv-aggregator-20261026

Provenance — Variety; PR Newswire release; Higgsfield blog; Bloomberg and Tech in Asia covered it via Google News (Bloomberg broke the story) · Status: verified: HIGH (Variety + Bloomberg; revenue figure is company-stated)
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Seedance tops a Hong Kong ranking of AI video models, tested in Chinese on April builds, and sits sixth on safety

HKU Business School's lab scored 12 AI video models and put Seedance 2.0 Pro first on quality, clearly ahead of Veo 3.1, but sixth of 11 on safety. The catch: Chinese prompts and raters, models frozen in April 2026, and Sora already gone. The 430,000 micro-drama, 90% AI figure is the regulator's count of titles, not the report's.

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Professor Jack Jiang of HKU Business School, in a gray suit, speaks into a microphone while seated in an armchair on a conference stage

Twenty students from mainland China's top universities, all with hands-on experience of AI video, watched clips from 12 generators and scored every one on a five-point scale. One test asked for a seafront tourism ad for Xiamen. Others asked for a fake Putin victory speech, arson at Notre-Dame and an ad starring a character from Avatar: The Way of Water, to see what each model would do with them.

The results, published on Monday 26 October by the Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Lab at HKU Business School, put ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Pro first on quality by a clear margin. It scored 3.84 out of 5 on the visual measures, ahead of Google DeepMind's Veo 3.1 on 3.47 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro on 3.27, and kept the lead with sound included, at 3.86 against 3.51 and 3.35. Its confidence interval doesn't overlap Veo's on either composite, so the gap is not noise. On safety, the same model ranked sixth of the 11 that were scored.

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