Steve Aoki's Selendis says Archon edits raw footage in minutes

Selendis says Archon can turn raw footage into a finished edit in minutes. The company announced the model, which it calls a video foundation model, in a post on X from its @SelendisAI account on November 3, 2026, and the same pitch runs on selendis.com. Selendis describes Archon as the engine behind what it calls personal AI video editors. The announcement rests on the company's own material, and no independent demo of Archon exists.

If Archon works the way Selendis describes it, the first pass over a shoot stops being the slow part of editing. A creator would hand hours of footage to the editor and get back an assembled cut to react to, instead of building the timeline by hand. Selendis is selling that promise, and no independent test of it has been published.

Selendis is a new lab, and Archon is its first public product. The company calls itself an AI lab and delivers Archon through a multiplayer video editor rather than as a standalone tool.

The company's site says Archon "adapts to individual creator taste, learns your editing style, and is able to zero-shot your video content in minutes." Selendis says the model picks up that taste from three inputs: the decisions a creator makes inside Selendis's multiplayer editor, the creator's past video catalog, and reference videos the creator points to.

Zero-shot, in Selendis's framing, means Archon produces a cut without a prior pass to learn a specific creator's style, and the personalization then builds from the editor's own decisions over time. The company has not said how any of that is implemented.

The launch post, which the AI-launch tracker Doomers AI quotes in full, calls Archon "a video foundation model that zero-shots raw footage into finished edit in minutes." Doomers AI read the post's view counter at more than 500,000 on November 4, 2026. Secondary coverage by the newsletter Neurocartel names the DJ Steve Aoki and Gavin Wong as co-founders, and Aoki's own account says he co-founded Selendis. Selendis's launch post credits Archon to "Steve Aoki and industry experts."

Nothing here can be checked yet. Selendis has published no sample edits, no benchmark and no side-by-side comparison, so the speed and quality claims rest entirely on the company's own material. View counts on the launch post are a live counter, and they move.

Access is early. Selendis is running a waitlist at selendis.com, where visitors reserve a username to hold a place in line, and the company has not announced a price or a release date.

To get in: join the waitlist at selendis.com and reserve a username. Selendis has not said when early access opens to wider sign-ups.