Vaishnav Anand was just 16 when he founded and began building DeepTrust in August 2024, turning a personal encounter with a deepfake into a project focused on helping people identify manipulated media. At the time, Anand was a high school student at The Athenian School in Danville, California. He is now pursuing research and product development around deepfake detection, AI security and trustworthy computer vision.
DeepTrust has since developed into a multimodal deepfake detection platform designed to analyse synthetic video, audio, images and satellite media. Anand says the system is designed for real-world conditions, including compression, distribution shifts and AI-generated content from systems that may not have appeared in its training data.
