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Familiar

Movies in Every Language. Better than Humans.

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.
Active Founders
An Zhu Liu
An Zhu Liu
Founder/CEO
Sold voice AI for six figures, built the best human avatar cloning model in the spring, and turned down a large offer to join a voice company as their model-research lead -- to build Familiar. Stanford dropout.
Mingi Kwon
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.
Xu Zheng
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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Familiar is the Neolab for world translation. Dubbing into 30 languages. Something impossible for humans -- now with Familiar, the same actor's performance, 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 3d understanding; and it matches human translators, published. Built by the researchers who pioneered joint audio-visual human models. thefamiliarlab.com/benchmark

Familiar
Founded:2026
Batch:Summer 2026
Team Size:8
Status:
Active
Location:Toronto, Canada
Primary Partner:Harshita Arora