The Future of Sound: Udio’s Vision for AI-Generated Music | E2016
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Todays show:
Udio’s David Ding joins Alex to discuss the inception of Udio (1:32), advancements in AI music creation (8:47), and the evolution of Udio’s AI model (10:32). Plus, David demos Udio’s capabilities live (32:47)!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Udio’s David Ding joins Alex
(1:32) David's journey and the inception of Udio
(4:26) AI music generation and user control over music elements
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(8:47) Advancements in AI music creation and data annotation
(10:32) Evolution of Udio's AI models and early versions
(14:59) Udio's target audience and the future of AI in music
(20:06) Udio's potential DAW integration and music production terms
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(23:17) Udio's funding and business model
(27:11) Financial discipline and GPU cost efficiency at Udio
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(32:47) GPU-based compute challenges and a live Udio demo
(48:03) Udio's user interface, engagement, and community insights
(49:57) Udio's growth, virality, and competitive stance
(53:27) Udio's model quality and expansion roadmap
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Twist. This is Alex and we have a special interview for you today. |
| 0:05.8 | I am an enormous fan of music. You may not know it, but I grew up playing classical and jazz |
| 0:11.2 | trumpet throughout my youth and music has remained an absolute |
| 0:14.2 | huge passion of mine throughout really my entire life. So when the AI revolution |
| 0:19.1 | of the last couple years came to the world of music, I was incredibly curious. |
| 0:23.4 | Two companies have really caught our eye here on this week in startups, |
| 0:26.9 | UDO, and of course its competitor, Suno. |
| 0:29.1 | Today we have David Ding, the co-founder and CEO of Uio on the show to tell us what it's for, who is paying for it, and where AI-based music |
| 0:37.6 | creation is going. This weekend startups is brought to you by dot-Tec domains. |
| 0:44.2 | Don't miss our Jam with J-Cal contest. |
| 0:46.5 | To apply and get more details, go to jam-with-J-Cal |
| 0:49.4 | dot-tech, brought to you by dot tech domains. |
| 0:53.0 | LinkedIn ads. |
| 0:55.0 | To redeem a $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign, |
| 0:59.0 | go to LinkedIn.com slash this week in startups and brave if you're building AI and search-based |
| 1:06.9 | applications train your models with the brave search API get started for free at |
| 1:12.2 | brave dotcom slash |
| 1:13.8 | Jason. We're going to talk about AI and music. |
| 1:17.0 | David, hi, how are you and welcome to the show? |
| 1:20.0 | Hi, hello. Really excited to be here. |
| 1:22.0 | So I want to start with some background stuff because I know you Hi, hello, I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:22.8 | So I want to start with some background stuff because I know you were a deep mind for a while |
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