AI Demos: Sunny’s Back with Luma Labs, Kling, Claude Sonnet & Getting AI Native | E1976
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Todays show:
Sunny joins Jason to dive into all things AI, including the power of Claude Sonnet (6:49), the importance of “AI Native” workers (21:40), Luna Labs and their recent video that brings famous memes to life (36:40), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny joins Jason.
(2:26) Living in the toughest fundraising environment and the failure of Lina Khan.
(6:49) Let’s jump back into AI demos with Claude Sonnet.
(10:28) NetSuite - By popular demand, NetSuite has extended its one-of-a-kind flexible financing program for a few more weeks! Head to http://www.NetSuite.com/twist
(11:46) Real-world applications with Jason’s team.
(13:52) Firing up ChatGPT 4.o for results that are extra-ordinary.
(20:16) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at https://www.openphone.com/twist
(21:40) The importance of “AI Native” workers.
(23:50) Is Google search going backwards compared to the power of today’s AI models?
(28:24) DevSquad - Visit https://devsquad.com/startups, book a call, and mention TWIST for 10% off!
(30:11) The omnipresence of AI at home and with work teams.
(36:40) Sunny demos Luna Labs, including the recent creation of bringing famous memes to life in one killer video.
(40:17) Sunny demos Kling.
(43:33) Sunny shows us Qwen, what he calls the best open-sourced model.
(49:04) Sunny demos the voices of Cartesia AI.
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LINKS:
Check out Min Choi’s Twitter post: https://x.com/minchoi/status/1807790101033890286
Check out Claude Sonnet: https://claude.ai/new
Check out Luma Labs: https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine
Check out Kling: https://kling.kuaishou.com/
Check out Qwen: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen2-72B-Instruct
Check out Cartesia AI: https://play.cartesia.ai/
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| 0:00.0 | There is a lot of innovation happening now, |
| 0:02.2 | and it's faster than ever. |
| 0:03.9 | And it's coming in the way of new types of models, |
| 0:07.1 | open source models, agentic reasoning, in voice. |
| 0:10.6 | And so in the second half of this year, Jacob, we are going to have some surprises that no one was anticipating. |
| 0:16.2 | Okay, there you go. So that's inside information, that's the inside line or a prediction. |
| 0:20.3 | Generally, I'm telling you, we're going to be more surprised in the back half of this year than we were when opening high first came out. |
| 0:26.5 | Oh, it's a big claim. It's a big claim. I don't know how we phrase it as a bet, but what you're saying is everything that happened up to now is the epilogue and that the story is coming. The real story is coming now. |
| 0:38.0 | This week in startups is brought to you by NetSuite, the number one cloud financial system bringing accounting, financial |
| 0:46.2 | management, inventory, and HR into one platform, giving you one source of truth. By popular demand, NetSuite has extended its one-of-a-kind |
| 0:56.5 | flexible financing program for a few more weeks. Head to NetSuite.com slash Twist. |
| 1:02.6 | Open Phone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app |
| 1:07.4 | on your smartphone or desktop. Twist listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first six months at openphone.com slash twist. |
| 1:18.0 | And Dev Squad. Dev Squad helps startups design better products. If you need UI and UX expertise and don't want to hire an entire design team, head to Dev Squad.com slash startups and book a call. |
| 1:32.1 | Mention that you are coming from Twist to get 10%. slash startups MOUTROUS and book a call. |
| 1:35.0 | Mention that you are coming from Twist to get 10% off. |
| 1:36.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to this weekend. |
| 1:38.0 | Startups Madra. |
| 1:40.0 | Mondays are back. |
| 1:41.0 | Here is my guys, Sundeep Madra. I don't know if we're releasing this on a Monday. We're taping it on a Monday. |
| 1:45.6 | Taping it on a Monday. Welcome back to this week and startups. People like, yeah, where you've been? |
| 1:49.4 | Where you've been? Everybody's asking, where is Sunny? Where's Sun Deep? |
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