Founder of a listed tool
Alex Yu
Historical co-founder and CTO; Dream Machine/Ray and Genie researcher, named behind the Luma AI API listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Alex builds
Luma AI API D · Video generation
Luma's video API for its Ray 3.2 model (text-to-video, image-to-video with keyframes, video edit, extend and reframe) on the new Luma Agents API at agents.lumalabs.ai.
Historical co-founder and CTO; Dream Machine/Ray and Genie researcher, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Alberto Taiuti Historical co-founder; now Reactor co-founder and CEO
- Amit Jain Co-founder and CEO
Backed by
Amplify Partners General Catalyst NVIDIA Matrix South Park Commons Andreessen Horowitz HUMAIN AMD Omniva
Questions
Who is Alex Yu?
Alex Yu co-founded Luma AI with Amit Jain in 2021 and was its CTO, working on the Ray (Dream Machine) video model and the Genie text-to-3D model. Before Luma he did neural rendering research at UC Berkeley, co-authoring PlenOctrees and Plenoxels, and left a PhD programme to start the company. He now works on image generation.
What does Luma AI make?
Anchor Terminal lists Luma AI API from Luma AI. Luma's video API for its Ray 3.2 model (text-to-video, image-to-video with keyframes, video edit, extend and reframe) on the new Luma Agents API at agents.lumalabs.ai.
Who has invested in Luma AI?
The sources our research read name Amplify Partners, General Catalyst, NVIDIA, Matrix, South Park Commons, Andreessen Horowitz, HUMAIN, AMD and Omniva.
How are Alex's tools graded?
Luma AI API is graded D, 48.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (12)
- https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-luma-ai/
- https://x.com/gravicle
- https://alexyu.net
- https://github.com/sxyu
- https://x.com/alexyu00
- https://albertotaiuti.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/albtaiuti/
- https://x.com/taiuti
- https://lumalabs.ai/
- https://lumalabs.ai
- https://docs.agents.lumalabs.ai/guides/faq/
- https://lumalabs.ai/api
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