Holoworld AI, built by San Francisco-based Hologram Labs, is a platform for creating, animating, and deploying AI-native characters and interactive video agents. Its centerpiece is Ava Studio, an AI-native creative studio that turns text into video, designs avatars, and scripts character behaviors, letting creators produce cinematic video agents and intelligent characters from simple prompts. Holoworld frames itself as a creator platform where people can build interactive AI-powered characters and narratives rather than just static clips.
The platform combines generative video and avatar creation with agent-style intelligence: creators configure a character's personality, behavior, and appearance, then deploy it as an interactive agent. This positions Holoworld at the intersection of AI video generation, digital characters, and interactive media, appealing to creators and brands that want owned, expressive AI characters they can animate into video and conversation. Hologram's customer and partner list has spanned major brands and IP including L'Oreal and Bilibili, alongside Web3-native communities, reflecting its reach across both mainstream and crypto-native creator ecosystems.
Hologram Labs raised $6.5 million in seed funding led by Polychain Capital, with a wide set of institutional backers and notable angels including Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, the founder of Arweave, and the CEO of Quantstamp. The capital supported building out Holoworld's AI-native creative tools, including Ava Studio's text-to-video and avatar capabilities, as the company pursued its vision of shifting creative power from studios to individual creators.
Holoworld's bet is that AI-native characters, expressive, interactive, and ownable, become a meaningful new medium for entertainment, marketing, and community. By giving creators tools to generate character video, design avatars, and script intelligent behavior in one studio, Holoworld aims to power a growing ecosystem of AI-driven IP and interactive video agents, blending generative video with character intelligence for a creator-first audience.