How AI is making influencers bionic with Forever Voices CEO John Meyer | E1762
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Today’s show:
Forever Voices CEO John Meyer joins Jason to discuss becoming a Thiel fellow (2:48), how his AI technology can make influencers and celebrities bionic (15:26), how it enables universal interaction (23:37), and more!
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(0:00) Forever Voices CEO John Meyer joins Jason
(2:48) John discusses becoming a Thiel fellow
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(10:58) John explains what led to his decision to start Forever Voices
(15:26) How this technology will evolve over time
(18:05) The use of AI in grief counseling
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(23:37) Thoughts on expanding past celebrities and influencers
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(38:50) Developing these AI models and preventing addiction on this platform (45:46) Will the AI variants be developed by others (48:25) Jason’s advice for founders on raising capital
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| 0:00.0 | What we're focused on right now is definitely, you know, where we think this could be a sustainable |
| 0:06.5 | long-term business, which is around this concept of turning influencers and our celebrities into |
| 0:12.4 | AI's where their fan base can all interact with them, you know, through natural voice. |
| 0:17.8 | This week in Startups is brought to you by the Microsoft for Startups founders hub |
| 0:22.6 | helps all founders build a better startup and a lower cost from day one. Startups get up to |
| 0:28.4 | $150,000 in Azure credits, access to free open AI credits, free dev tools like GitHub, |
| 0:36.0 | technical advisory, access to mentors and experts, and so much more. There is no funding |
| 0:41.5 | requirement and it only takes minutes to join. Sign up today at aka.ms slash this week in Startups. |
| 0:50.0 | Crowdbotics. Great ideas can change the world and Crowdbotics is the fastest way to turn those |
| 0:55.5 | ideas into code. Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com slash |
| 1:02.4 | twist and open phone brings your team's business calls, texts, and contacts into one delightful app |
| 1:09.2 | that works anywhere. Get 20% off your first six months at openphone.com slash twist. |
| 1:15.3 | All right everybody, welcome back to the program. We've only been obsessing over AI and Karen AI |
| 1:21.6 | is a company that keeps coming up. Every time we tweet something or we have a conversation, |
| 1:27.3 | people say, oh, make sure you check out Karen AI. They've been at it for a little while and in fact, |
| 1:34.3 | we use Karen AI with producer Rachel on episode 1743. This was the Snapchat influencer who created |
| 1:43.4 | an AI version herself if you remember. Basically she created a virtual girlfriend and that went viral |
| 1:48.8 | on Twitter a couple of weeks ago. So we decided to have the startup founder, John Mayer. |
| 1:53.7 | Not the one with the guitar playing skills, although he might play guitar. But welcome to this weekend |
| 2:00.0 | Startups CEO of Forever Voices, John. There. Thank you, Jason. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 2:05.6 | Yeah. And so nice view you got there. You're in a Texas. I take it by all that flat land. |
| 2:11.4 | All right. Flatland entries. Yeah. Is that where you started the companies that were you from or |
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