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The story behind the story

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Synthesia says it has over 65K customers and serves more than 70% of the Fortune 100, with its AI avatars mainly used for training and internal communications

Constructing an avatar of myself is even weirder than I expected.  —  It's a choreographed experience that made me feel …

Fortune Allie Garfinkle

Context & Ripple Effects

Synthesia’s enterprise reach follows a progression from a company known for increasingly lifelike avatars to a B2B platform backed by a $180M Series D at a $2.1B valuation. The reported adoption gives that product story a concrete distribution signal.

The use case is notably operational rather than customer-facing: training and internal communications. That focus makes avatar video part of recurring corporate content workflows, while the earlier push toward more human-like and expressive avatars raises the quality bar for those deployments.

First-order effects

  • Synthesia gains stronger evidence that its avatar tools have moved beyond pilots at large companies, particularly for employee learning and internal messaging.
  • Enterprise communications and training teams have a scalable alternative to repeatedly filming presenters for localized or updated video materials.

Second-order effects

  • Rival AI-video vendors will face pressure to match Synthesia’s enterprise deployment, governance, and workflow fit—not merely avatar realism.
  • As more internal video is generated on demand, buyers are likely to scrutinize approval controls and authenticity safeguards alongside production cost and speed.

Third-order effects

  • If adoption persists, synthetic presenters could become a standard layer of corporate knowledge distribution, shifting value from one-off video production toward managed content systems.
  • The same realism that improves internal communication may make consent, disclosure, and access controls a more durable enterprise buying requirement.

The trend: Enterprise generative video is moving from a novelty product toward workflow infrastructure for producing and maintaining internal content at scale.

Discussion

  • @lauridonahue Lauri Donahue on bluesky
    In 2023, for example, its technology was used by a client in Venezuela to produce state propaganda videos, in which avatars were generated to imitate Western newscasters; the episode crystallized concerns over political disinformation.  [embedded post]
  • @alexvoica Alexandru Voica on x
    A few weeks ago, I met @agarfinks at Fortune's Brainstorm AI in London and we briefly talked about how Fortune 500 companies use @synthesiaIO. Fast forward to today, and I'm so excited that Allie's in-depth feature about Synthesia is finally out, timed to a special edition of [im…