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Rishikesh Ranjan

Rishikesh Ranjan

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all thing growth @ ngram.com

Articles by Rishikesh Ranjan (112)

Wan 3.0: Alibaba's AI Video Model Now Turns Slide Decks and Spreadsheets Into Video
Industry news12 min read

Wan 3.0: Alibaba's AI Video Model Now Turns Slide Decks and Spreadsheets Into Video

Alibaba's Tongyi Lab announced a public beta for Wan 3.0 on August 6, 2026, gated to invited accounts - the first major AI video model that reads PowerPoint decks, PDFs, and spreadsheets directly. Here's what that changes in production workflows, and what it doesn't.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Aug 11, 2026
MiniMax H3 and the Rise of Native-Audio AI Video Generation
Industry news12 min read

MiniMax H3 and the Rise of Native-Audio AI Video Generation

MiniMax H3 ships 2K AI video with native stereo audio in a single pass. Here's what that collapses in a video production pipeline, what still doesn't work, and why the model layer is racing toward audio-native generation.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Aug 3, 2026
Runway Media Router: Why AI Model Selection Just Became Infrastructure
Industry news13 min read

Runway Media Router: Why AI Model Selection Just Became Infrastructure

Runway's new Media Router auto-picks the right video, image, or audio model for a job, the same idea OpenRouter brought to text models three and a half years ago. Here's why it's arriving now, and why Runway is willing to route paying customers to its own competitors to make it work.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 31, 2026
Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3: One AI Model for Video, Audio, and Robots
Industry news11 min read

Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3: One AI Model for Video, Audio, and Robots

Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3, its first multimodal frontier model unifying video, audio, and robotic action. Here's why the first production customer is a car factory, not a marketing team.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 27, 2026
NVIDIA's Synthetic Video Detector: Real-Time Deepfake Detection Goes Live at 35,000-Deployment Scale
Industry news11 min read

NVIDIA's Synthetic Video Detector: Real-Time Deepfake Detection Goes Live at 35,000-Deployment Scale

NVIDIA's Synthetic Video Detector, a NIM microservice announced at SIGGRAPH on July 20, 2026, is now embedded in Wowza's livestreaming infrastructure across 35,000+ deployments in 170+ countries. Here's what NVIDIA's own accuracy and latency numbers actually show.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 23, 2026
How to Create an AppSumo Offer Explainer Video From a Deal Page
How to13 min read

How to Create an AppSumo Offer Explainer Video From a Deal Page

Create an accurate AppSumo video from a deal page by separating stable product facts from mutable offer facts, rendering in ngram, and running a line-by-line deal review.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 20, 2026
How to Create an AppSumo Promo Video From a Deal Page
How to12 min read

How to Create an AppSumo Promo Video From a Deal Page

Create an AppSumo promo video from a live deal page with verified offer details, a focused teaser brief, render monitoring, and a final deal-term review.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 20, 2026
How to Create a Product Hunt Demo Video for Your Launch Gallery
How to13 min read

How to Create a Product Hunt Demo Video for Your Launch Gallery

Create a Product Hunt video for the launch gallery with ngram's Product Explainer Video mode. Edit the brief into a compact walkthrough, render, and run QA.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 20, 2026
How to Create a Product Hunt Launch Teaser From a Product Page
How to12 min read

How to Create a Product Hunt Launch Teaser From a Product Page

Create a focused Product Hunt video teaser from a product page with ngram's Product Teaser Video campaign mode, then review the brief, render, and final cut.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 20, 2026
How to Create a Product Explainer Video From ChatGPT With ngram
How to20 min read

How to Create a Product Explainer Video From ChatGPT With ngram

Create a product explainer video from ChatGPT with ngram. Connect ngram, write the brief, approve the tool call, monitor rendering, and review the final link.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 17, 2026
How to Create a Product Teaser Video From ChatGPT With ngram
How to12 min read

How to Create a Product Teaser Video From ChatGPT With ngram

Create a product teaser video from ChatGPT with ngram. Connect the app, write the brief, approve the tool call, monitor the render, and review the final cut.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 17, 2026
PixVerse Funding Hits $439M as AI Video Bets on World Models
Industry news13 min read

PixVerse Funding Hits $439M as AI Video Bets on World Models

PixVerse closed a $439 million Series C extension on July 13, 2026, crossing a $2 billion valuation and pivoting from clip generation toward real-time AI world models with its new PixVerse Game Engine. Here's what the round, the valuation math, and the world-model pivot mean for AI video.

Rishikesh Ranjan
Rishikesh Ranjan
Growth Lead
Jul 17, 2026