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  "markdown": "Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer.\n\nWayne Liang is co-founder and chief innovation officer of HeyGen, which makes AI video tools including personal avatars, and works on the company's product vision. Before HeyGen he worked at Smule, the music and singing app company.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneliang7/\n\n## What Wayne builds\n\n- [HeyGen Voice](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/heygen-voice.md), graded BB, 71.1/100, in Text-to-speech. HeyGen Voice is HeyGen's in-house text-to-speech model, `heygen-voice-1`, which speaks text in a voice cloned from one recording (instant) or from 20 minutes or more (professional), through HeyGen's v3 API. Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [HyperFrames](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperframes.md), graded E, 39.7/100, in Video generation. HyperFrames turns HTML compositions into videos through a local CLI and preview studio. Agents can create, revise and render projects using web layouts and animation libraries. Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Joshua Xu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/joshua-xu/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Miguel Ángel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/miguel-angel/), Product/software engineer building HyperFrames\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Conviction](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conviction/)\n- [Benchmark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/benchmark/)\n- [Thrive Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thrive-capital/)\n- [BOND](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Wayne Liang?\n\nWayne Liang is co-founder and chief innovation officer of HeyGen, which makes AI video tools including personal avatars, and works on the company's product vision. Before HeyGen he worked at Smule, the music and singing app company.\n\n### What does HeyGen make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists HeyGen Voice and HyperFrames from HeyGen. HeyGen Voice is HeyGen's in-house text-to-speech model, heygen-voice-1, which speaks text in a voice cloned from one recording (instant) or from 20 minutes or more (professional), through HeyGen's v3 API.\n\n### Who has invested in HeyGen?\n\nThe sources our research read name Conviction, Benchmark, Thrive Capital and BOND.\n\n### How are Wayne's tools graded?\n\nHeyGen Voice is graded BB, 71.1 out of 100; HyperFrames is graded E, 39.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.heygen.com/en-gb/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/buffxz/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneliang7/\n- https://www.heygen.com/\n- https://www.heygen.com/about\n- https://www.heygen.com/en-gb/contact-us\n- https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes\n- https://github.com/miguel-heygen\n- https://miguel07code.dev\n- https://miguel07code.dev/contact\n- https://x.com/Miguel07Code\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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