Jose Florido on Controllable AI & Visual Content at Scale

What does it actually mean to create 175 million images and videos every month — and still keep brands in control of their message? Jose Florido, Chief Growth Officer at Magnific, has answers that go well beyond the pitch deck.

In this episode:

• How Magnific evolved from a stock image library into a full AI-powered content infrastructure platform — and why DALL-E 2 was the inflection point

• What "controllable AI" actually means in practice, and how brand fidelity is enforced at massive scale across models from Google, ByteDance, OpenAI, and others

• Why brands are the hardest segment to convert — and how Magnific's professional services team bridges the gap between traditional agency workflows and AI-native production

• How visual content localization works inside Magnific, including cultural adaptation, multilingual voiceover, and the honest limits of what the model can handle without human review

Jose Florido is a UX designer by training with over 25 years in software and digital product experience. He co-founded Panoramio, which was acquired by Google in 2007, and has held senior design and leadership roles at Google Maps, Meta, and Spotify before joining Magnific — formerly Freepik — where he now leads enterprise sales, growth marketing, and professional services globally.

Connect with Jose Florido:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseflorido

Website: https://magnific.com

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