AI demos: Figma’s FigJam, AI drawing, dancing avatars, and more! | E1857
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Today’s show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo Figma FigJam (2:08), a product that generates images from real-time drawing (31:05), and more while discussing the implications of IP theft writ large.
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(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(2:08) Sunny demos Figma’s FigJam
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(10:40) Figma FigJam demo continued
(16:02) Jason shares his AI generated images and discusses how companies navigate copyright issues
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(26:12) Feedback and thoughts for FigJam
(31:05) Sunny demos Fal, an AI that gives generated images from real time drawing
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(41:49) Sunny demos the Real-Time Latent Consistency Model
(47:01) Sunny demos Alibaba’s Animate Anyone
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| 0:00.0 | Why does the scale of the theft matter? |
| 0:02.0 | Well, because you have to look at it and say, |
| 0:04.0 | are they infringing on Disney's ability to do something in the world? |
| 0:08.0 | So let's say you and I decided we were going to create an event where we had a Jedi night party. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, great, happy birthday, Jake Allen is a Jedi party. |
| 0:19.7 | So that's the theme. |
| 0:20.7 | Great, Star Wars theme, everybody has a great time. Now imagine we said, wow everybody has such a great time |
| 0:24.8 | at this. Let's make it a permanent installation at Cowhala. We'll get a building and then we'll charge 50 bucks to come. And it's like, well that sounds like Star Wars town at Disney World. |
| 0:33.6 | Disney World. And so that's where the scale of something, |
| 0:38.2 | the monetization of something comes in. |
| 0:40.0 | This week in startups is brought to you by Squarespace, turn your idea into a new website. |
| 0:46.5 | Go to Squarespace.com slash Twist for a free trial. |
| 0:50.4 | When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. |
| 0:57.0 | Brave. If you're building AI and search-based applications, train your models with the Brave Search API. |
| 1:04.3 | Get started for free at brave.com slash Jason. |
| 1:08.5 | And Lemon.io. |
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| 1:17.4 | I.O. |
| 1:18.7 | Go to lemon.io slash twist to get 15% off for the first four weeks. |
| 1:24.0 | All right, everybody. It's Monday, so it's time for our AI demos. |
| 1:29.0 | This is what we do. We demo or die every Monday. |
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