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Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform by researchers from @mit, @meta and @carnegiemellon Turn your script & audio into films without a camera Backed by @ycombinator

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koyal.ai (YC F25)
koyal.ai (YC F25)@KoyalAI·
The most advanced benchmark and sandbox for AI image and video. Now available at FilmArena.ai
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal

Today we're launching FilmArena [dot] ai. Biggest release we've ever shipped. The problem: a new SOTA AI image & video model drops every week. @OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2 literally yesterday. 1000 endpoints, no honest answer to "which one is best right now?" Arena AI and Artificial Analysis cracked LLM benchmarking. But for creative AI, they're solving the wrong problem. There is no "best image-to-video model." Best at what? World building? Action Sequences? Expressions? Every category has a different winner, and it flips weekly. So we benchmarked 40+ SOTA models with 2M+ votes across 190 countries. By subcategory. Re-ranked every week as new models ship. With thousands of real humans. But that's just half of it. Then there's the SANDBOX. Higgsfield and other aggregators put models in one place. But creators still juggle twelve subscriptions to do one job. FilmArena collapses it into one tab. Every frontier model. One interface. Same price. Call the best, or call 3 at once and compare. The AI film stack has been fragmented since day one. Today it isn't. Go try it free: filmarena [dot] ai Already wild results from this week: 1. @OpenAI GPT Image 2 (released yesterday) dominates image editing, but @GoogleDeepMind Nano Banana 2 still wins animated 2. @PixVerse_ C-1 beats @dreamina_ai Seedance 2 on animated 3. Veo 3.1 Fast outperforms Veo 3.1 on realistic video And a lot more. Go check it out.

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koyal.ai (YC F25)@KoyalAI·
Somebody made this kidnapping/murder mystery trailer with Koyal - will be needing the full 8 episodes immediately.
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Mehul Agarwal
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal·
It’s not a difficult thing to start culture anywhere, especially in SF. It just requires initial support. Look at Corgi Cafe. Didn’t exist last year, now they’re an SF staple. We want to do the same for film theatres. Why can’t we host screenings every month of the most hyped or classic movie? We don’t have as much funding as Corgi but I really want @KoyalAI to make people appreciate the arts more (AI or not AI). It was a cultural moment when @ExaAILabs hosted everyone for Project Hail Mary. Let’s make it a movement. Let’s bring taste back.
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal

At 2:30 AM, I was the last person inside an AMC taking this photo. Normal behavior when you’re a founder. I want @KoyalAI to buy out a theatre for Spider-Man: Brand New Day and invite every SF founder. Please spread the message if you want to help make it happen. Why? Because every founder I know relates to Peter Parker in this movie. We left friends, family and people we love to move somewhere nobody knew us, fighting battles & building tech barely anyone understands. Who wants to partner with us to witness the “exaggerated swagger” of a sleep-deprived SF founder?

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koyal.ai (YC F25)
koyal.ai (YC F25)@KoyalAI·
This is true. Mehul did go alone to watch the Odyssey lol
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal

At 2:30 AM, I was the last person inside an AMC taking this photo. Normal behavior when you’re a founder. I want @KoyalAI to buy out a theatre for Spider-Man: Brand New Day and invite every SF founder. Please spread the message if you want to help make it happen. Why? Because every founder I know relates to Peter Parker in this movie. We left friends, family and people we love to move somewhere nobody knew us, fighting battles & building tech barely anyone understands. Who wants to partner with us to witness the “exaggerated swagger” of a sleep-deprived SF founder?

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koyal.ai (YC F25)@KoyalAI·
The most fun party we hosted. Live generative visuals, custom movies featuring participants & photobooths. SF is back.
Dedalus Labs@dedaluslabs

🎬 And that's a wrap! Some snapshots from our full house one-night speakeasy with @KoyalAI From 1,000+ RSVPs, we hand picked 160 YC Startup School attendees and invited them to a secret location. They stepped into an evening of cinematic production, drinks matched to their Github activity, and our first limited-edition perfume. Be on the look out for our next one ;)

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koyal.ai (YC F25)@KoyalAI·
Somebody used Koyal to create a new anthem for the bro-code. It surprisingly slaps. We didn't anticipate this use case but we don't ask questions, we just render.
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koyal.ai (YC F25)
koyal.ai (YC F25)@KoyalAI·
Koyal Vlog #1: We Took AI Films to a Real Movie Theatre
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Nars@narsagna·
7000 engineers at startup school this weekend, no way you're meeting all of them except you actually can! We built a tool that matches you with other attendees based on what they've actually shipped And on Sunday we're hosting the biggest afterparty with @fondo and @Wefunder See you there! @davj @dianeemccormack #sus
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Mehul Agarwal
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal·
Come chat with the @KoyalAI team at @ycombinator Startup School. We are at booth 7! Few lucky people get invites to the dopest official YC after-school party if you entertain us
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koyal.ai (YC F25)@KoyalAI·
Audition to join us at YC startup school! KOOKOO
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal

Everybody's been posting their YC Startup School ticket. Bring it to our booth and it can get you a job. We're doing a CASTING CALL for the role of Founding Engineer(s) at @KoyalAI Studios. This is unlike working for any other startup in Silicon Valley. Yes, we are B2B AI SaaS but our SaaS is a movie. You'll take diffusion and computer vision research and turn it into films made without a camera. Taste is graded on the same curve as your loss. Come talk to us to audition. CASTING NOTES: - Research Experience in Diffusion & Computer Vision - Fluent in pop culture - Willing to watch Odyssey at 6 AM with the team. We have done this You'll like it here if you use agentic coding tools, tokenmaxx without guilt, treat models as creative partners What we will not ask for: 7 day work weeks. Our mascot is a songbird, not a working dog. Good work needs a little boredom, and we like touching grass. We're still a startup though, so physics applies. The YC ticket says ADMIT ONE. Great, we're hiring exactly one of you. Maybe two.

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Mehul Agarwal
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal·
we launched the agentic router on filmarena.ai 2 months ago lol I wish TechCrunch confirmed the claims of the "first agentic video model router" before running the story ours is based on public human benchmarks with 4M+ votes for 50+ SOTA models if anyone wants to cover this, happy to get into more details :)
TechCrunch@TechCrunch

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/run…

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Mehul Agarwal
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal·
I don’t like dissing other companies in a similar field in public. I believe the engineers at Higgsfield are great & innovative with some workflows. However this does set a very dangerous precedent & I do hope they reconsider these aggressive terms. Proper Filmmakers deserve to use AI as a tool. A Sony camera doesn’t own the license to videos made on the Sony cameras by anyone. Our terms for content generated on @KoyalAI are stated on our website clearly. For paid users, we don’t train on your content nor use it promotionally without explicit permission. In fact, if that’s not clear, we’re going to make it clearer. Hold AI video companies like us accountable.
Theoretically Media@TheoMediaAI

1. The Output license (§4.3 + §4.4) — this is the headline. You grant Higgsfield a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable-through-multiple-tiers license to everything you upload AND everything you generate. Explicitly including "promotional use." Translation: any shot you generate for a film can legally show up in their marketing, their investor deck, or a sublicensee's sizzle reel, forever, and you can't revoke it. You also waive moral rights. They don't claim ownership of your outputs — that's the line they'll point to — but ownership without exclusivity and with a perpetual co-license to the platform is not the IP position you want for film work.

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