Threads, ChatGPT usage drops, and AI demos with Sunny Madra | E1774
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Today’s show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo VenturusAI (11:01) and other tools, before discussing Sunny’s new AutoGPT project (34:38). They wrap up talking about Meta’s launch of Threads (49:08), Google’s attempts at building a social network, and Inflection AI’s new supercomputer (1:00:13).
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Sunny joins Jason
(1:49) ChatGPT sees a decline in growth
(10:22) Fin - Try Fin, Intercom's new AI customer support chatbot, at https://intercom.com/fin
(11:01) Sunny demos VenturusAI
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(26:01) Sunny demos Vercel
(34:38) Sunny's new AutoGPT
(41:58) Carta - Go to http://Carta.com and use code TWIST to get 10% off your first SPV
(43:29) The decision to be open-sourced or closed
(49:08) Meta’s new platform Threads
(1:00:13) Google’s attempts at a social network
(1:03:28) Inflection AI's supercomputer, roundtripping and training LLMs
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| 0:00.0 | The best way I heard it explained to me was when you're behind you open source when you're ahead you're closed |
| 0:05.8 | And if you look at say |
| 0:09.8 | Windows they had a monopoly on the desktop closed. They don't need to be open source |
| 0:15.2 | But then you look at Google very far behind. They have a monopoly on search. So when they talk about search |
| 0:21.2 | They're algorithm for search is closed. You can't understand how pages are ranked |
| 0:26.5 | But then you look at Android they went open because they were so far behind |
| 0:30.5 | iOS and stuff like that. So they went open source. They want to be on everybody's phone |
| 0:34.6 | So I think Facebook going is closed when it comes to their graphs and everything right Facebook |
| 0:40.1 | |
| 0:42.1 | When all the companies like we're created, you know |
| 0:44.4 | Xingha and all and then they close the graph up |
| 0:47.6 | You know at some point when they had a lead and nobody can compete with them |
| 0:51.2 | Which is exactly what open AI did they became closed AI so fascinating this week and so |
| 0:56.5 | Startups is brought to you by Finn can't burn its mouth on hot pizza or wave its someone who wasn't waving at them |
| 1:03.9 | Finn can resolve half of your customer support tickets instantly before they reach your team |
| 1:09.7 | Meet Finn a breakthrough AI bot by Intercom ready to join your support team today |
| 1:16.5 | Visit intercom.com slash fin eight sleep good sleep is the ultimate game changer |
| 1:23.1 | Now you can add the pod cover to any mattress go to eight sleep.com slash twist to check out the pod cover and get |
| 1:31.0 | 150 dollars off at checkout and |
| 1:34.1 | Carda now lets you launch and administer SPVs for your syndicate share your knowledge |
| 1:39.6 | Capital and network to launch your syndicate SPVs through carda get 10% off your first SPV with promo code twist |
| 1:48.9 | Hey, everybody welcome to another episode of this weekend startups and sunny modra is here my guy |
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