Demi Guo & Chenlin Meng

Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng are the CEO and CTO of Pika, a generative AI company that builds tools for creating and editing videos using artificial intelligence. Pika has raised over $135 million in venture funding and has attracted millions of active users to its platform.

Demi Guo holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a Master's in Computer Science from Harvard University. She previously worked at Two Sigma (a quantitative hedge fund) and Meta AI before co-founding Pika. Chenlin Meng holds a PhD from Stanford University, where her research focused on diffusion models and generative AI — the foundational technology behind Pika's video generation capabilities.

Pika's platform allows users to generate cinematic-quality videos from text prompts, edit existing videos with natural language instructions, and transform images into animated content. The company's technology democratizes video production — making it possible for anyone to create professional-quality video content without expensive equipment or technical expertise.

Their work represents the cutting edge of generative AI's expansion from text and images into video — one of the most challenging and commercially valuable domains in AI.