Apple Vision Pro, Meta’s MusicGen, Waitroom demo & more with Vinny Lingham and Sunny Madra | E1760
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Todays show:
Vinny and Sunny are back! First, Vinny demos Waitroom (2:12), before the group breaks down Apple’s new Vision Pro headset (41:10), then, Sunny demos a suite of new AI tools, including Meta’s MusicGen model(19:53).
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Time stamps:
(00:00) Vinny and Sunny join Jason (2:12) Waitroom's features (5:38) Waitroom's design for VC's and Sunny's thoughts (9:42) Features to add to next (13:43) Masterclass - Get 15% off an annual membership to MasterClass at https://masterclass.com/startups. (19:53) Meta's MusicGen (24:26) Creating music with AI (29:03) Merge - Integrate up to 3 customers for free today at https://merge.dev/twist (30:35) Exploring authenticity as AI becomes more prevalent (32:27) Sunny demos LumaLabs (36:55) Jason AI interviews Steve Jobs (39:45) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (41:10) Apple's Vision Pro headset (42:32) The key differences between Oculus Meta Quest and Apple's Vision Pro (49:49) The effects of headsets in the workplace (52:53) Using ControlNet to create artwork for QR codes (56:39) Developing code using Replit
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| 0:00.0 | The action items, if I were to say right now, action item, each week Vinny shows up with more than |
| 0:06.2 | just his opinions, but he brings two or three actual demos of AI products. That would put it as an |
| 0:11.5 | action item. Yes, Vinny? That's correct, Jason. Okay. This week in startups is brought to you by |
| 0:17.7 | Masterclass. Learn from the world's best minds. Any time, anywhere, and at your own pace. |
| 0:24.6 | Get 15% off an annual membership to Masterclass at masterclass.com slash startups. Merge. Let your |
| 0:33.2 | developers get back to their core product. Merge is a single API to add hundreds of integrations to |
| 0:39.3 | your app. Integrate up to three customers for free today at merge.dev slash twist and lemon.io. |
| 0:49.6 | Need to speed up your product development without draining your budget. Higher vetted engineers |
| 0:54.3 | from Europe at lemon.io. Go to lemon.io slash twist to get 15% off for the first four weeks. |
| 1:02.1 | All right, everybody. Welcome to this weekend's startups for AI Roundtable with Sunny |
| 1:05.8 | Modred and Vinny Lingham. If we look a little different right now, it's because we're trying out |
| 1:09.8 | Vinny's super cool new product, weightroom.com. Tell us, welcome back to the show, Sunny and Vinny. |
| 1:16.5 | Good to be back. Good to be back, Jason. Thanks for joining me in weightroom. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, so it's weightroom.com. This is your product. I see three video windows. Looks similar. |
| 1:27.7 | It's in a browser. It looks similar to Zoom with some slight differences. Tell us what we're |
| 1:32.4 | experiencing here and how AI works into all this. So if you just click on the right-hand side, |
| 1:36.8 | you always see people, but go to the summer AI. Summer AI. Summer. Summer AI. Summer AI is exactly. |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah. Summer AI. Summer. Yeah. And so you can then see all the all the stuff which like we've |
| 1:50.1 | been telling you about before we started the recording. Oh, wow. So you actually had a |
| 1:54.3 | Michael, the investor audio and video stamps and signs to Michael. Michael's my co-founder is in |
| 1:58.4 | the room here as well. It's listening and it gives insights there that you have. You can scroll |
| 2:03.2 | up and see all the different stuff we spoke about. And it's really cool because not like we're |
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