Zeev Farbman

Recent appearances

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  Open World Models in Production: LTX and ComfyUI Founders Live

  July 24, 2026 · 📺 ComfyUI

  A special live conversation with Yoland Yan (CEO, Comfy.org) & comfyanonymous (Founder, Comfy.org) and Zeev Farbman (CEO, LTX) Join us as we sit down with the teams behind LTX and ComfyUI to talk about building an open world model that integrates natively into the production tools creators use. We'll explore what it took to build LTX a foundational model that understands space, motion, and how the physical world operates—with synchronized video and audio generation, truly open weights, and the flexibility to fine-tune on your own data. We'll dive into what it took to ship a frontier video mo…

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  Competing with the artificial intelligence giants from Jerusalem; with Zeev Farbman from Lightrix

  May 17, 2026 · 📺 TrashTech - טראשטק

  This week on TrashTech, we interviewed Zeev Farbman, founder and CEO of Lightrix - an Israeli company from Jerusalem that builds AI video models and competes with Google, OpenAI and Alibaba, with a tenth of the budget. Live episode from the Hebrew University's Open Day! We tried to understand how a doctorate from the Hebrew University built an app that reached Kim Kardashian and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue? And then - we spoke with Prof. Guy Kindler, Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science and Prof. Gabi Stanovsky, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Pro…

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  Superintelligence exclusive Interview with Zeev Farbman, CEO and Co-Founder of LTX

  March 06, 2026 · 📺 Superintelligence

  In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Zeev Farbman, the co-founder and CEO of LTX and the creative AI company Lightricks, to explore the story behind one of the most influential startups in the generative media space. Farbman shares how Lightricks started in 2013 as a small group of researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and grew into a global company behind popular creative apps like Facetune, Videoleap, and Photoleap. We also dive deep into LTX, the company’s ambitious push into AI-powered filmmaking and video generation. From the launch of LTX Studio—a platform that tur…

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  Zeev Farbman Takes on Real-Time Diffusion Models

  January 24, 2026 · 📺 Almost Human Academy

  What if video wasn’t a file you export, but a service that responds to every viewer in real time? In this episode, Eden Shochat talks with Lightricks co-founder & CEO Zeev Farbman about LTX 2, their real-time video diffusion model that runs on edge devices (phones and gaming GPUs) instead of giant cloud data centers. They break down: • Why “every pixel is programmable” is the real story behind diffusion models • How we got from Facetune to a real-time video engine •…

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  Ignore the Instructions | Dr. Zeev Farbman CEO and Founder of Lightricks | #10

  December 14, 2025 · 📺 תתעלם מההוראות - איתן לויט

  In this episode, we dive deep into the AI revolution through three moments that shake everything we thought we knew about technology. Dr. Zeev Farbman, CEO and founder of Lightricks, explains why graphics in games have barely changed since 2006 – and why AI models are about to completely replace classic game engines. Instead of calculating physics, the model will simply draw reality in real time, like in the experiment they did on Medal of Honor that became photorealistic to unreasonable levels. We’ll also talk about Sam Altman, about how he’s not a scientist but a businessman who knows how…

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  Deep Dive into AI for Video and Potential Consequences - Interview With Lightricks LTX Studio CEO

  August 21, 2024 · 📺 CineD

  ► Read more: https://www.cined.com/ Lightricks, the company behind LTX Studio, has just announced that their software is now at an "open beta stage."As such, it is available for many to try for free, in addition to subscribing, for an even greater experience. The announcement gave me an opportunity to interview Zeev Farbman, the company's CEO and Co-Founder. If you find the subject of AI interesting to explore, I recommend that you watch this interview. It will give you a unique opportunity to understand where we are headed and, not less importantly, to understand the point of view of a lead…

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  Zeev Farbman, CEO of Lightricks, on Facetune's success and how AI will disrupt photo and video!

  January 19, 2024 · 📺 LegendsNLeaders

  Zeev helped create an ideal way to make professional pixel edits on mobile, which through a unique marketing strategy, resulted in Lightricks having 2 top 10 paid apps in the US early on. They embraced Apple's App Store subscriptions in the beginning, greatly amplifying the business' revenue, and have created the go to mobile video editing app creators love, Videoleap. As Lightricks has been leading the high quality photo and video tool democratization for the masses, Zeev now sees a new opportunity to design technology from the ground up using AI to help ideate and world build for the next ap…

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  From College Dorms to a 9-Figure Creator App Empire w/ Zeev Farbman (Lightricks CEO and Founder)

  January 25, 2023 · 📺 The Influencer Marketing Factory

  This week, Zeev Farbman, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightricks, joins Alessandro Bogliari, CEO and Co-Founder of The Influencer Marketing Factory and podcast host, to discuss the shifting nature of the creator ecosystem, how he established an award-winning app development company, and much more! 🔥 Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@influencerma... ⚡️ Lightricks homepage: https://www.lightricks.com/ 🙎‍♂️ Zeev's LinkedIn:   / zeev-farbman-b5926b37   🚀 Start Your Next Influencer Marketing Campaign: https://bit.ly/3HwiHaJ Lightricks, founded in January 2013, is a company tha…

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  How To Succeed In The Creator Economy Future w/ Zeev Farbman | Lightricks Co-Founder

  December 23, 2021 · 📺 Entrepreneurship Handbook

  Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Zeev Farbman. He's the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightricks. What started as a bootstrapped company between 5 Ph.D. friends has turned into a $1.8bn goliath in the app creation industry. They've created massively popular apps such as FaceTune, FaceTune 2, Videoleap, MotionLeap, and Boosted. Their most recent app is Link In Bio, which aims to expand their role within the creator economy future. In this interview, you'll hear from someone at the very forefront of the industry to understand the opportu…

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  Zeev Farbman: How AI Makes it Easier to be Creative

  June 07, 2021 · 📺 Startup Nation Central

  Led by Start-Up Nation Central, Jerusalem: Where Tech Meets Design presents our flagship conference: Designing | Engineering the Future 2019. Speaker: Zeev Farbman, Lightricks Topic: How AI Makes it Easier to be Creative For more information, visit jlmtechmeets.design

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  How To Compete with Big Tech and Win with Zeev Farbman & Gigi Levy-Weiss

  January 04, 2021 · 📺 NFX

  Founded in January 2013, Lightricks is a company that develops video and image editing mobile apps, known particularly for its selfie-editing app, Facetune. Headquartered in Jerusalem, the firm has over 250 employees. As of 2019, its apps have been downloaded over 180 million times and have over 3 million paying subscribers. Zeev Farbman co-founded Lightricks along with Nir Pochter, Yaron Inger, Amit Goldstein and Itai Tsiddon. In July of 2019, Lightricks announced that it has raised $135 million in Series C financing round at a $1 billion valuation bringing Lightricks’ total funding to $205…

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  Fireside Chat: Lightricks & Insight Venture Partners - NOAH19 Tel Aviv

  April 17, 2019 · 📺 NOAHConference

  Cognitive Computing: Fireside Chat with Zeev Farbman, Lightricks & Harley Miller, Insight Venture Partners at the NOAH Conference 2019 in Tel Aviv, Hangar 11, 10-11 April 2019. --- NOAH Conference is Europe’s premier networking conference for the digital ecosystem where senior industry executives, world-class investors and rising startups gather to discuss market trends, form business partnerships and explore the latest innovations. https://www.noah-conference.com Follow #NOAHConference on social media: LinkedIn:   / noah-conference   Twitter:   / noahconference   Instagram:   / noah_c…

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