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Mirage (formerly Captions)

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Mirage combines model development with a large consumer creation surface, giving it fast product feedback and substantial media-generation volume.

New York, USFounded 2021API accessWeekly review target

Editorial intelligence brief

Editorial focus

Weekly review target

Rebranded from Captions to Mirage and announced $75M in growth financing in March 2026.

Focus: AI-native short-form video creation, editing, avatars, and audio generation

Latest funding

$75M

Growth financing · source-backed

Tracked funding

$75M

Sum of itemized funding events

Latest valuation

Not tracked

No source-backed record

Latest revenue

Not tracked

Growth lifecycle position

Editorially verified updates

What changed

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Rebranded from Captions to Mirage and announced $75M in growth financing in March 2026.

External coverage of Mirage (formerly Captions)

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Last checked Oct 21, 2026.

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Source-backed financial history

Funding and financial history

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partial coverage · 1 record

Records

1

Sum of recorded funding

$75M

Coverage

partial

Partial history: earlier or intervening rounds may be missing. The sum covers only the announcements recorded here, not lifetime funding. Announced commitments may be paid over time; this is not a cash balance. Dates show announcements or first public reports, which can follow the investment itself.

#1

Growth financing · $75M

Running tracked total: $75M

Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.

Product surface

Products and model families

Recent models

Mirage video model

Products

Mirage StudioAI CreatorCaptions

Open weights

No

API access

Yes

Review target

Weekly

Market position

Lifecycle and strategic signals

Research

Preview

Growth

Deployment

Growth: Public access & scaling

Focus

AI-native short-form video creation, editing, avatars, and audio generation

Signals

VideoAvatarsConsumer reach

Taxonomy

Vertical + EnterpriseVideoCreative tools

Competitive context

RunwayHiggsfieldSynthesia

Infrastructure & distribution

Where Mirage (formerly Captions) sits in the AI stack

Model / product operator
01

Model layer

1 tracked model family

02

Access layer

Managed API

03

Market layer

Media Models

Public product surface

Mirage StudioAI CreatorCaptions

Stack signals

VideoCreative toolsAvatarsConsumer reach

This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.

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