Roel Castano

🔨 iOS @trymirage | 🇲🇽

[dwight churchill @dwightchurchill]

don't join average teams :)

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

new grads — we’re hiring @trymirage 👀

if you’re into AI + video, you’ll probably like this

[Alex Du @TheMountainDu]

Mirage (@trymirage) is hiring exceptional new grads and early career engineers to build the future of agentic video creation.

- $160k+ base + equity
- NYC in-office only

Apply below. For extra credit, reply with a one-sentence description and link to the project you’ve burned the most tokens on. Best responses get fast-tracked via DM.

Applications close 4/12.

[Mirage @trymirage]

Today we’re announcing $75 million in growth financing from @GeneralCatalyst, bringing our total funding to $175 million to date.

More than 20 million creators, small businesses and enterprises use our products around the world. Together, they’ve created more than 250 million videos.

This investment marks our next chapter: accelerating global expansion while pushing the frontier of agentic video creation.

[Mirage @trymirage]

Captions is now Mirage.

A new identity for a bigger vision — redefining short-form video with frontier AI research.

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

For those who are not familiar yet, some of the features coming out of Mirage are mind blowing. 👇🏼

[Gaurav Misra @gmharhar]

We're changing our name. Captions is now Mirage.

Today's most popular medium is short-form video. It's the fastest-growing format, it’s what people want, and it’s what brands need to grow.

But unlike other forms of AI content like text or image, which can be generated and ready-to-use with a single prompt, generated video still requires a lot of manual work and editing to be ready to share. This is where the real opportunity lies.

The way we see it, the real race for AI video hasn’t even begun.

The world is waiting for a foundation model for video that can take an idea and produce a fully usable, cohesive output from scratch. So that’s what we’re building.

We’re rebranding to Mirage to reflect our expanded vision for video, starting with the short-form format, through frontier AI research and models.

Check it out at mirage dot app

[Dan Moreno @danmorenooo]

when editing a video can be as easy as chatting with it, it’s hard to go back to a timeline

[Mirage @trymirage]

Introducing Mirage Studio.

Powered by our proprietary omni-modal foundation model.

Generate expressive videos at scale, with actors that actually look and feel alive. Our actors laugh, flinch, sing, rap — all of course, per your direction.

Just upload an audio, describe the scene or drop in a reference image, and create energetic content in minutes.

Built for marketers, creative teams, and anyone serious about crafting great narrative videos.

Available for everyone at mirage dot app.

Get started with a few ideas below.

[Gaurav Misra @gmharhar]

Turns out AI can laugh with Mirage

[Mirage @trymirage]

The @NYSE lit up to celebrate Captions selection to
@Forbes AI 50 last night 🎉 Honored by the recognition — what a way to close the week!

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

@danmorenooo @HeyGen_Official @getcaptionsapp

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

🤯

[Drew Jaegle @drew_jaegle]

An early look at our audio-to-video foundation model, Mirage. Made by the team at @getcaptionsapp.

Mirage generates expressive humans that don't exist — talking, laughing, yelling, and more

The videos below were created directly from audio input, without reference images

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

“You are the media now”

[Gaurav Misra @gmharhar]

Video editing is going free.

ICYMI, the stakes are high for @capcutapp and @tiktok_us this Friday with the Supreme Court hearing.

Regardless of the outcome, @getcaptionsapp is committed to our mission: making it possible for everyone to share their ideas through video.

We’re introducing a free plan on January 19th, making video editing accessible to everyone, regardless of their budget. Best of all, no watermarks.

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

@danmorenooo @getcaptionsapp Nvm you did that

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

@danmorenooo @getcaptionsapp You have to make a 2024 movies ranking too

[Mirage @trymirage]

Go from one ad to thousands of variations in an instant.

Meet Ad Studio: the easiest way to create ads at scale and give your best-performing creative new life with AI.

Start from scratch by generating an ad set, or remix a winning ad's speaker, hook, music, and language.

(h/t @bryan_johnson)

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

I mean why not 🗣️

[Mirage @trymirage]

You’ll want sound on for this.

Announcing Lipdub Playground. With just a click, add a voice to your videos.

Upload a video, type in a script (or drop in your own audio), and let your videos do the talking.

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

😶

[Dan Moreno @danmorenooo]

@Midaskwant cooked here 👨🏼‍🍳

[Roel Castano @RoelCastano]

We're releasing our video generation and editing features on our new API 🚀

[Mirage @trymirage]

1/ Today we’re releasing our most cutting-edge video generation and editing features as APIs.

Over the past few months, we’ve built and shipped a collection of features to generate and edit talking videos with AI, incorporating feedback from our community of 10M+ users. We’re now making these tools broadly accessible through our suite of APIs.

With these APIs, developers will be able to generate, edit, and translate talking videos at scale.

To get started, AI-generated @gmharhar dives into our AI Creator API, the easiest way to generate talking videos for social media.

[Mirage @trymirage]

It’s official: you can now create your own AI Twin, only on Captions.

Just record a minute of yourself talking, and watch your AI Twin come to life. Go from idea to video in seconds, and get the perfect take every time.

If you've ever wanted a twin — now’s your chance.