2024 AI Predictions and Bets with Sunny Madra | E1873
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Today’s show:
Jason and Sunny make a bunch of predictions and bet $1000 on each for the upcoming year in AI.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason to make some 2024 AI bets
(4:46) Bet 1: There will be a top 100 song created by AI
(10:22) Power dynamics in the music industry and its intersection with AI
(13:01) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://miro.com/startups
(14:34) Bet 2: AI will be capable of replicating Jason doing a TWiST Segment without listeners noticing
(18:51) Bet 3: There will be an AI-generated Pixar short that has made it into mainstream
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(29:06) Bets 4 and 5: We see a small model deployed locally on an iPhone/Android
(39:31) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(49:34) Bet 6: A multimodal model will be #1 by usage, AND open-source multimodal will beat out closed models
(52:00) LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant
(58:04) The potential implications of the New York Times lawsuit
(1:10:01) OpenAI's financial success, copyright lawsuits, and the potential of Disney and the New York Times in AI
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LINKS:
Midjourney: https://www.tiktok.com/@controllaxyz/video/7319184981987839263?_r=1&_t=8igobwQ1dzq
AI Drake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhVuQ06tO3M
AI Spongebob: https://twitter.com/Teridax/status/1741205766046888149
AI Pixar: https://twitter.com/eyishazyer/status/1741418522448986492
TinyLlama: https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0
Llava: https://llava-vl.github.io/
Suno AI: https://www.suno.ai/
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| 0:00.0 | I never told anybody this but Fox, Rupert Murdoch put in a late bid to buy Weblogs, |
| 0:05.5 | okay. When you already had a deal? I had the AOL deal on the in the red zone and they were like, |
| 0:10.6 | hey, how about plus three million and I I was just like, how about no? |
| 0:14.7 | And I just told them like, if you're going to give an offer, |
| 0:16.7 | that's 30% more than what they're offering, |
| 0:19.0 | which would have been $9 million, |
| 0:20.4 | and I'll consider it. |
| 0:21.6 | But if you're just going to, we're not playing the prices right here |
| 0:23.8 | sorry respectfully Rupert yeah you sold early on that one Jake how well 18 months from |
| 0:29.7 | zero to 30 million yeah I do, I needed to secure the bag. |
| 0:33.4 | I mean, that was smart. |
| 0:34.4 | That was the setup of all setups. |
| 0:35.8 | Once you get your first 10 mili, you're dangerous. |
| 0:38.2 | That's how I always tell people get that first 10 million in the bank and man, |
| 0:41.2 | what the only money just to think, how it's bad it's all good those |
| 0:44.0 | all good. This weekend startups is brought to you by Miro helps take ideas from |
| 0:49.8 | in your head to out there in the world with its ability to democratize collaboration and input. |
| 0:56.5 | Sign up for free at meuro.com slash startups. NetSuite. Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge. Things |
| 1:07.1 | you used to do in a day, take a week. You deserve a customized solution, that's NetSuite. |
| 1:13.6 | Learn more when you download NetSuite's popular KPI |
| 1:16.8 | checklist absolutely free at NetSuite. |
| 1:20.8 | Com slash Twist. |
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