Open-source vs. "ClosedAI," demoing new AI tools & more with Sunny Madra & Vinny Lingham | E1742
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Sunny and Vinny are back to demo some new AI tools (14:08), discuss open-source vs. "ClosedAI" (38:45), and more!
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(1:31) Jason's trip to the UAE and Abu Dhabi's 30-year investment horizon
(12:39) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://miro.com/startups
(14:08) Sunny demos ChatPDF and LLMs' future in the workforce
(24:23) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(25:41) Google's new universal translator
(30:11) What is Hugging Face?
(37:26) iConnections - Get 20% off iConnections Miami 2024 event at http://iconnections.io/twist
(38:45) Open-source vs. "ClosedAI" and the race to build AI hardware
(48:28) Comparing Google Bard to ChatGPT
(1:01:13) Google's vision for Gmail and AWS's partnership with Hugging Face
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| 0:00.0 | it should have a button that would be like the jcal button which would be like troll this person |
| 0:03.9 | and it would be the troll options and like my troll option would be like why do you |
| 0:08.5 | why does Hamas? Why does everybody hate Hamas and then link to the clip of Sasha Barak Cohen |
| 0:15.5 | talking about hummus and Hamas and he's like uh trolling them trolling options should be there |
| 0:23.0 | to do like jokes and stuff like that i that would be a great startup is an agent that follows |
| 0:29.2 | you around the internet and then optimizes your trolling and comedy and just makes uh you know |
| 0:34.9 | a mockery of everything mockery AI somebody go grab that domain and this weekend startups is brought to |
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| 1:31.1 | all right everybody welcome back to this weekend startups is once again it's our AI round table |
| 1:36.4 | quote this week an AI if you want uh every week we're going to do this until this AI thing slows down |
| 1:41.8 | which basically means until the singularity AGI happens and humans are retired with us a |
| 1:47.6 | handsome deep madra we call them sunny he's a co-founder of definitive intelligence that let's use |
| 1:53.0 | his view on and off chain data but let's be honest he's paving this whole pivoting this whole |
| 1:57.6 | crypto on chain analysis data thing to AI right you're you're all in your full board AI we are all |
| 2:03.8 | in on AI yes yeah so enough with the i-chains and the tokens and the NFTs is enough |
| 2:10.2 | they're important they're important they're going to be what's going to oh the source of truth is |
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