RunwayML, AI Steve Jobs, & more with Sunny Madra & Vinny Lingham | E1755
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 3 June 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Today's show:
Sunny and Vinny are back to break down what's next after AI layoffs(30:10), discuss RunwayML's massive valuation(52:09), and more!
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Time stamps:
(00:00) Sunny and Vinny join Jason
(1:39) Sunny demos Runway
(9:16) Jason AI interviews AI Steve Jobs
(12:37) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(13:44) Jason AI interviews AI Steve Jobs continued
(18:27) The potential for genealogist AI startup
(22:26) Converting thoughts into text with Audio Pen AI tool
(24:40) Microsoft charging 40% more for AI-enhanced services
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(30:10) Comparing hiring with improving employee efficiency
(33:46) The ChatGPT share feature
(37:47) Meta's Image Bing AI tool
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(42:01) Microsoft integrating AI into windows
(49:29) The Sales Recording Law
(52:09) Big funding rounds and why investors must get in early
(55:30) Japan going all in on copyright
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| 0:00.0 | I think everybody's assumption just like seeing like a Twitter handle tweet something that you'd be like |
| 0:05.6 | That's a tweet. Okay. It's a LinkedIn. Am I sure that this actually happened in reality? |
| 0:10.8 | I'm gonna just get three or four sources. So |
| 0:13.8 | Everybody's kind of assuming that if something's in the press that the press has biases and you have to learn that |
| 0:20.6 | You know the individual nuance of each publication and that if you find something on social |
| 0:26.0 | It's probably been doctored |
| 0:28.1 | I haven't really always guaranteed you that a big publication in the next election 2024 will make a screw up |
| 0:35.3 | Sure and publish something which is totally fake and then apologize for it afterwards |
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| 1:40.0 | All right, everybody welcome back to this weekend startups. It's our AI roundtable with sunny and viny |
| 1:44.8 | sunny modra of course is the co-founder of definitive intelligence. They provide AI enhanced data analysis of both |
| 1:51.8 | Private and public data and vinyling them the founder of weight room from one-on-one video conferencing and that's at weightroom.com |
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