Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed (Todd Spangler/Variety)

<a href="https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/reactor-real-time-ai-video-funding-jeffrey-katzenberg-1236755883/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260528/i41.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260528/p41#a260528p41" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Todd Spangler / <a href="http://www.variety.com/">Variety</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/reactor-real-time-ai-video-funding-jeffrey-katzenberg-1236755883/">Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results.</p>