OpenAI and Google race to launch multimodal LLM plus AI demos with Sunny Madra | E1811
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Today’s show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss Sunny’s All-In Summit experience (1:34), OpenAI’s race to beat Google in launching the first multimodal LLM (9:07), whether generative AI needs a UI shift (33:00), and much more!
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(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(1:34) All-In Summit 2023 recap and Sunny’s experience
(7:44) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://Squarespace.com/TWIST
(9:07) OpenAI’s race to beat Google in launching the first multimodal LLM
(14:42) Experiences with image-generating AI and Midjourney's interface
(19:23) The culture at Apple and where risk aversion sets them back
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(24:03) Google’s advantages and chances against OpenAI in multimodal LLMs
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(33:00) UI developments and what sets multimodal LLMs apart
(44:22) ChatGPT Enterprise
(45:37) Sunny demos Canva’s ChatGPT plugin
(55:00) Code LLaMa's potential and Falcon 180B’s unique features
(59:41) Sunny demos Headshots AI
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| 0:00.0 | You know what's really interesting is Zillow is gone. |
| 0:04.3 | Oh, Zillow took their Zaw. |
| 0:05.9 | Yeah, because it was so bad. |
| 0:08.3 | Well, I thought it was like again heading in the right direction, but I think it's sort |
| 0:13.0 | of this, you know, fear of chat GPT becoming like the apex aggregator. |
| 0:19.0 | And so if everyone is just going there and searching for things and you're just a |
| 0:23.0 | data source, then your business has less values. |
| 0:25.5 | Well, you lose the interface. |
| 0:27.2 | You lose the customer relationship. |
| 0:28.7 | I mean, that really is why people should not do these plugins because you don't have |
| 0:33.1 | the email of the person. |
| 0:34.7 | Yeah, you don't know why they're searching this. |
| 0:37.1 | They can be scraping your data and you just gave up any immunization. |
| 0:41.6 | This week in startups is brought to you by Squarespace, turn your idea into a new website. |
| 0:48.5 | Go to squarespace.com slash twist for a free trial. |
| 0:53.1 | When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase |
| 0:58.6 | of a website or domain. |
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