AI DEMOS: Turning Adele into John Mayer, animating a Jedi Bulldog, AI companions and much more! | E1867
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Today’s show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to dive into the world of AI-generated characters you can start a relationship with (3:46), take a look at Pika and its stunning AI-animated video clips (35:29), convert Adele’s voice into John Mayer’s (46:26), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(3:46) Diving into the viral post from Digi.ai that builds animated characters you can start a relationship with
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(14:02) Digging deeper into the concept of an AI companion and societal effects
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(23:29) How should conversations with AI be monitored, and the hot topic around confidentiality and security.
(25:59) Sunny demos Vercel which generates and shares REACT code snippets.
(33:58) Gusto - Get three months free when you run your first payroll at Gusto.com/twist.
(35:29) A look at Pika where AI generates stunning animated video clips from a simple prompt including a Jedi Bulldog from Sunny.
(46:26) Spaces can convert Adele’s singing into the voice of John Mayer!
(50:27) Let’s hear an AI remix of Earl Ives “A Holly Jolly Christmas” with a sprinkle of Lil’ Jon.
(58:02) Sunny demos Outfit Anyone.
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Check out Digi.ai: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digiapp.ai
Check out Vercel: https://v0.dev/
Check out Pika: https://pika.art/
Check out Spaces: https://huggingface.co/spaces/amphion/singing_voice_conversion
Check out Outfit Anyone: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HumanAIGC/OutfitAnyone
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| 0:00.0 | So next is Pika. This is basically prompt to video generation. What I went and did was I kind of did three. You can see, got a J-Cal here. I've got one of your favorites, which is an animated bulldog with a lightsaber and I took our influencer from last week and so you can see that my prompt was bulldog holding a lightsaber ready to strike a Sith Lord and so not quite perfect but oh close enough if I go here to the |
| 0:27.0 | influencer she's now been animated and she's breathing right you can kind of see that and notice it's quite settled so you're giving it yeah the picture and then it makes it do something |
| 0:39.3 | that is bonkers this week in startups is brought to you by |
| 0:44.3 | Square Space turn your idea into a new website. Go to |
| 0:48.1 | Square Space.com slash twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch |
| 0:52.1 | use offer |
| 0:52.8 | offer your first purchase of a website or domain. |
| 0:57.6 | The Equinix startup program provides hybrid infrastructure |
| 1:01.0 | solutions for startups, |
| 1:02.8 | including up to $100,000 in credits |
| 1:05.6 | and personalized consultations and guidance from the Equinix team. |
| 1:10.0 | Go to Equinix startups to apply today. |
| 1:14.0 | And gusto is easy online payroll, benefits, and HR built for modern small businesses. |
| 1:22.0 | Get three months free when you run your first payroll at gusto.com slash twist. |
| 1:28.0 | All right everybody it is Monday so we're going to do our AI demos. |
| 1:32.6 | It's demo or die time with me again. |
| 1:35.6 | My bestie, Sundep Madra, sunny. |
| 1:37.8 | People don't know, like everybody assumes my besties |
| 1:40.6 | are Freiburg and Sachs and other famous people who shall not be mentioned. |
| 1:45.0 | But in truth, right up there with all those famous people. |
| 1:50.0 | It's my guy, Sun Deep. |
| 1:52.0 | We go skiing together, we do this pot every Monday. |
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