Getty to sue Stability AI, $MSFT to incorporate OpenAI into Azure + new climate startups | E1659
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
First up, Molly and Jason cover a bunch of news happening in the world of AI, Getty Images is preparing to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI (8:47), Meta is partnering with Shutterstock to train its AI models, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the company will integrate OpenAI’s software into Azure - it’s cloud computing platform - and ALL it’s other products. (36:07) Then, we cover two new sustainability startups! Mill is a company started by former Nest co-founders making an automated compostability trash can. (55:12) And Sollum is building AI-enabled LED lighting solutions for indoor farming. (1:06:35)
(0:00) M+J kick off the show.
(2:47) Molly and Jason catch up after their long weekend
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(8:47) Getty Images prepares a lawsuit against Stability AI
(12:54) Data and data integrity
(17:55) AgeTech Collaborative - Find out more and apply at https://agetechcollaborative.org/twist
(19:30) The similarities between AI and the music industry
(34:31) AgeTech Collaborative - Find out more and apply at https://agetechcollaborative.org/twist
(36:07) Microsoft announces that they will integrate AI into all their products + more on round-tripping
(49:50) Blockchain versus AI
(55:12) SOTD: Mill
(1:06:35) SOTD: Sollum Technologies
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| 0:00.0 | Do okay, everybody. |
| 0:00.8 | We are back on a Tuesday. |
| 0:03.6 | Thanks to my guy, Andrew Geistaggi of acquire.com |
| 0:08.8 | for joining yesterday. |
| 0:09.8 | If you missed that episode, |
| 0:11.2 | you know, some people were out volunteering |
| 0:14.2 | and taking the day off like we did |
| 0:16.8 | and observing MLK Day. |
| 0:19.1 | If you missed that episode, |
| 0:20.1 | it's really worth going backwards a day |
| 0:21.7 | because a lot of our founders are in the process |
| 0:24.4 | of doing M&A because maybe funding's not available |
| 0:26.8 | and it's time to get some returns for you, |
| 0:29.0 | your team, your investors, no shame in the game. |
| 0:31.8 | If you've got to sell your company, do it right. |
| 0:33.3 | And this is a great, great episode for you to go backwards |
| 0:36.4 | and listen to yesterday's. |
| 0:37.5 | But today, tons of news, Mon. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:40.6 | We're back with a bang twist going up on a Tuesday. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm sorry, I didn't want to do it |
| 0:45.8 | but the way you said it, I just had to. |
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