Our story · 2020 to 2026
In 2023 we did what the market started to value in 2026.
Legathum was born in January 2020 at Circuit Launch, in Silicon Valley, with one question: what if a person's knowledge could keep working when they are not there? In October 2023 we put the first public AI twin of Khaby Lame, the most-followed creator on TikTok, on stage. Today that technology is called Digital Twin.
- 2020
- Founded at Circuit Launch, Silicon Valley
- 160M+
- Followers of the creator we cloned in 2023
- 3
- Brazilian cities in one launch week
- 1.25M
- Lines of code in production today
The 2023 launch film: Khaby Lame meets his AI twin.
The founding
It all started at Circuit Launch, in Silicon Valley.
In January 2020, at Circuit Launch, a startup space in Silicon Valley, Legathum was born from a conversation about artificial intelligence and human memory: how to preserve what a person knows, how they speak and how they decide.
That same year, Forbes Brasil published our first research.
- January 2020
- Founded at Circuit Launch, California
The science
The first to believe were UC Berkeley scientists.
In 2020 Alberto Todeschini, PhD, Distinguished Faculty in Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley, advised the founder at the start of the project and introduced him to Alice Hua and Tim Chen, scientists who contributed to developing the technology. These are their testimonials.
Alberto Todeschini
PhD. Distinguished Faculty in Artificial Intelligence, UC Berkeley (2017 to 2023). The founder's adviser in 2020
Alice Hua
Scientist. Contributed to developing the technology
Tim Chen
Scientist. Contributed to developing the technology
They took part in a personal capacity. Legathum is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the University of California.
MemorAI
Digital memory becomes a product.
In 2021 Legathum acquired the commercial rights to MemorAI, a digital-memory project built by two data scientists during their master's at UC Berkeley. It was the first piece of the brain that now powers every twin.
Legathum is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the University of California.
Back in the Valley
We went back to Circuit Launch with the avatar studio up and running.
In June 2022 we returned to Circuit Launch with the Acelera no Vale programme. The founder showed Legathum's avatar studio to Brazilian entrepreneurs and taught them about digital humans, starting from Snow Crash, the 1992 novel that imagined the metaverse.
October 2023 · The Khaby Lame case
We put the world's biggest creator's AI twin on stage.
An AI twin that reproduced Khaby Lame's personality, speech and humour, presented live at Legathum's global launch in São Paulo. In 2023 digital twins were science fiction for most of the market. We had one on stage.
- 160M+
- Followers: the most-followed creator on TikTok
- 11/10/2023
- Global launch in São Paulo
- 3
- Cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Cuiabá
- 1
- Public AI twin of a global creator, live
The announcement
Khaby Lame, in a Brazil shirt, packs his bag: São Paulo, 11 October.
The capture
Khaby Lame inside the capture rig: several cameras record his image to build the twin.
The validation
Khaby Lame puts his twin to the test with its creator, Deibson Silva, in front of the international press. After a long question-and-answer session, the avatar impressed Khaby Lame himself.
The ambassador
On the launch stage, Khaby Lame tells his story as Legathum's ambassador.
The reveal
The AI twin speaks, in Italian, next to Khaby Lame and the founder. The audience films it on their phones.
Maracanã
In Rio de Janeiro, Khaby Lame leaves his handprints at the Maracanã stadium.
Hearing everyone’s story was so inspiring and humbling. Thanks @legathum2026 · The market catches up
Three years later, the digital twin became a category.
In January 2026 Khaby Lame's company announced an all-stock deal of up to US$975M built around his AI digital twin. The deal has since stalled: the buyer had the rights, but not the technology or the team to operate a twin. That is exactly what we built.
- US$20M
- Seed round for Twin1, twins for law firms (August 2026)
- US$4B
- Valuation of Synthesia, AI avatar video (January 2026)
- US$200M
- Annual revenue of HeyGen, AI avatar video (2026)
Legathum was not part of the 2026 deal. We cite it as a market signal, with the figures the parties published.
2024 to 2026 · Built
What was a stage in 2023 is a product today.
Three platforms in production: Digital Twin, Master Brain and iPersonality. Every twin has its brain, its Book of Criteria and its Mirror Test, speaks more than 20 languages, is hosted in Europe and never trains on client data.
- 3
- Platforms in production
- 1.25M
- Lines of code
- 15,000+
- Automated tests passing
- 20+
- Languages for live video
The founder
Deibson Silva: he has done it before.
Serial entrepreneur with AI expertise. He built and sold two companies in Brazil, created the NeuroMetaphysical Theory of Multidimensional Consciousness, designed the VACE behavioural model behind iPersonality and personally built Legathum's technology: memory and personality mapping, the knowledge engine, the live face and voice, and the Digital Twin.
- 2
- Companies built and sold
- 500,000+
- Books sold as an author
- 25,000+
- Professionals trained with his method
- Thousands
- Of people assessed with his behavioural software
Founder-reported track record; evidence available on request.
Six years later, the twin is at work.
Talk to Deibson Silva's twin and see what started in Silicon Valley in 2020.
Press, partnerships and investors: info@legathum.ai
Sources: press coverage of the launch (11 October 2023), Khaby Lame's YouTube post, Forbes Brasil (2020) and the public 2026 announcements cited. This page is not an offer of securities.