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Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we are talking about Black Forest Labs. Now, if you aren't familiar with this name, that's okay. I'm going to explain who they are and why they're important, because they have just raised $300 million at a $3.25 billion valuation. So for a company that not a ton of people, unless you're really integrated in what's

happening with AI, most people don't know them because you don't see them as something that

you use very often, but you probably actually have used this company before, even if you didn't know it. And so we'll

get into all of that on the show today. What they're going to be doing with this $300 million. They're

an image generation platform. And they have some really impressive users, growth, and customers.

We're going to get into all of that on the show today. Before we do, I wanted to mention if you want

to try Black Forest Labs out or any of the other AI models I talk about on the show, I'd love for you to go try out AIbox.AI. That's my own startup. It's $20 a month and you get access to 40 of the top AI models over 40. We're adding new ones. We just upgraded a whole bunch of ones this week. So if you want to go try them out, everything from Gemini to Open AI to Anthropic to

11 Labs for audio, I know I personally spend over $300 a month on 11 Labs using their voices

and a lot of their voice cloning stuff.

Not for this show.

Don't worry.

This is me if you ever use AI.

If you're ever listening to

AI chat, it is the real Jaden's voice. You'll know that the day that, you know, some people complain, they're like, you say like too much or you stumble over your words too much. The day that everything sounds too polished and professional, then you then you should start worrying. No, I'm just I'll, transparent if I ever use AI on the show, but I think basically I'll probably always have my

own voice on here. So you're in good luck. But anyways, I spent a ton of money on 11 labs,

over $300 a month. And so if you want to get access to that model for only $20 a month,

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