Mavericks Engineers Behind Video Generation AI NoLang to Speak at February 23 Event

Mavericks, Inc., the company behind the Japan-built video generation AI product NoLang, will hold a talk event titled “Why You Cannot Build a Real Product with Vibe Coding” on Monday, February 23, 2026, a national holiday in Japan. The event takes as its theme what product development in the AI era actually looks like and the knowledge it demands. It will be held at KERNEL HONGO in Bunkyo City, Tokyo, and streamed online. Admission is free and no advance registration is required.

About the video generation AI NoLang

NoLang is a video generation AI service built in Japan that creates a video in as little as a few seconds from text, PDF and pptx documents, a website URL, or even image, audio and video files. Since its release in July 2024, registered users have passed 150,000 and corporate adopters have passed 60 companies. It is used for a wide range of purposes, including summary videos of news articles, content for social media, and turning internal training materials into video, and it is one of the largest video generation AI products developed in Japan¹. Alongside a library of more than 100 avatars and more than 300 voices, it offers custom avatar creation and expressive speech synthesis, so anyone can produce high-quality video instantly without specialized skills.

Why the limits of vibe coding are worth discussing now

As generative AI advances quickly, “vibe coding” — building an application from text instructions alone — is drawing attention. Social media is full of reports of apps built in a few hours, and people now talk about a future in which products are finished without writing code.

In practice, though, running a product that hundreds of thousands of users reach every day involves a great deal that vibe coding alone cannot cover. Scalability, incident response, security, and continuous improvement driven by user feedback are walls that you cannot get over by simply running AI-generated code as it is.

At this event, two founding engineers of Mavericks, who build and operate the video generation AI NoLang with its more than 150,000 users and face those walls daily, will take the stage. As people working on the front line of generative AI product development, they will share the practical knowledge that lies beyond vibe coding.

Topics

― The limits of vibe coding

― The knowledge and code quality that real product operation requires

― Practical knowledge of development, operations and decision-making in running a product

― Careers in the AI era

― A Q&A session between attendees and the speakers

Speaker profiles

Hideki Iwakiri ― Mavericks, Inc.

Completed a master’s degree at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. In graduate school he proposed an optimization algorithm with theoretical guarantees for non-convex optimization, accepted as first author at NeurIPS, one of the most competitive conferences in artificial intelligence. At Mavericks, Inc. he covers a broad range of work, from research to algorithm development and marketing. He also writes the newsletter “Mavericks AI News,” which has more than 85,000 subscribers.

Shion Maeda ― Mavericks, Inc.

Completed a master’s degree at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. While studying machine learning and control theory, he carried out research aimed at practical application at a number of corporate laboratories. At NTT’s research laboratories he worked on cryptographic protocols that cannot be broken by quantum computers (accepted at the IEEE international conference, patent granted). At Mavericks, Inc. he works on world-leading research and development using generative AI technology, and devised Kakudai V1, an image upscaling workflow that was the most advanced in the world at the time. In product development, he leads and oversees the engineering work as a whole.

Event details

About the venue, KERNEL HONGO, and DEEPCORE

KERNEL HONGO, the venue for this event, is an incubation site operated by DEEPCORE, a venture capital firm focused on AI.

DEEPCORE is a venture capital firm specializing in companies in AI and advanced technology fields, and it supports entrepreneurs who set out to change the world through technology. It invests in pre-seed to early-stage startups across every industry, including healthcare, manufacturing and logistics. It also runs KERNEL, an AI-focused incubation site for startups and teams around the time of founding, and LINKS by KERNEL, a matching platform for people who want to build a career at a startup. In June 2025, with funding from NEDO, it launched a program that matches excellent technology from universities and other institutions with AI and management talent.

Company profile

Company name: Mavericks, Inc.

Head office: Core Hongo Building 1F Room A, 3-43-16 Hongo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Representative: Shota Okuno

Founded: September 12, 2023

Business: Provision of the real-time video generation AI NoLang and the super-resolution technology Kakudai, among others

Provision of “Mavericks AI News,” an email newsletter that delivers the latest AI information

URL: https://www.mvrks.co.jp/

Mavericks, Inc. is a product-out generative AI startup. It owns a number of advanced in-house products, including the real-time video generation AI NoLang and the super-resolution technology Kakudai.

It is a team built around engineering strength that keeps up with the leading edge of development in the generative AI era.

Anyone interested in NoLang is welcome to get in touch at the address below, as are people at operating companies, those considering rolling out AI services to their own customer base, and people responsible for digital transformation within an organization.

Contact: nolang-corporate@mvrks.co.jp