Chenlin Meng is revolutionizing content creation as co-founder and CTO of Pika Labs, a generative AI video startup that gained 500,000 users within months. A Stanford PhD (on leave) advised by AI luminary Stefano Ermon, she pioneered the DDIM technique for image generation used in DALLE-2 and Stable Diffusion. Her rare combination of theoretical research and product execution has propelled Pika to a $250M valuation.