Udio AI’s Music Magic, Aqua’s Unique Dictation, Copyright Laws & the 1000x Potential of AI | E1931
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 14 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Todays show:
Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news and demos including, Adam Schiff and the new bill to force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art (9:03), Udio the recent AI music creator catching a lot of hype (17:48), the AI dictation power of Aqua (39:10), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny joins Jason to dive into this weeks AI news and demos.
(4:02) AI News: Meta, Google and Intel all launched chips this week.
(9:03) Adam Schiff and the new bill to force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art
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(17:48) Sunny demos Udio - the recent AI music creator catching a lot of hype.
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(20:56) Sunny and Jason further explore Udio and discuss the copyright issues around AI models.
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(36:31) Sunny creates a song with Udio about Jason’s passion for copyright laws.
(39:10) Sunny demos Aqua.
(45:36) Sunny demos SWE-Agent
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LINKS:
Check out Udio: https://www.udio.com/
Rolling Stone article on Udio: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/
Check out Aqua: https://withaqua.com/
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Meta’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1778078194345955765
Google’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1777654095601348775
Intel’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1777725152102699026
Article on Adam Schiff introducing new bill: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/09/artificial-intelligence-bill-copyright-art
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| 0:00.0 | But this Gen AI movement is the actual industrialization movement of making more images, making more software, making more mock-ups, making it easier for us to access data quickly. |
| 0:12.0 | And so I think with that when you apply that back |
| 0:15.0 | to software engineer agent, we can now, |
| 0:18.4 | the same way we went for making one card |
| 0:20.1 | to 10, we can 100 X ourselves. |
| 0:22.5 | And so me as a software engineer, |
| 0:24.2 | I can work on 10 different problems at the same time |
| 0:26.7 | or 30 different problems with the help of these agents. |
| 0:30.5 | I think we're about to have the thousand X jump in software development. |
| 0:34.7 | This week in startups is brought to you by |
| 0:38.6 | Gusto is easy online payroll, benefits, and HR built for modern small businesses. |
| 0:45.6 | Get three months free when you run your first payroll at gusto.com slash twist. |
| 0:51.6 | Mantle. The AI-powered equity management platform designed for modern founders and operators. |
| 0:58.0 | Get your first 12 months free at with mantle.com. Twist and HubSpot. |
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| 1:17.0 | All right everybody welcome back to this weekend's start-ups. It's your boy J-Cal here with my guys that any Madra |
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| 1:29.2 | inference in the world. |
| 1:31.6 | Welcome back. Sunny. Good to be back. |
| 1:34.5 | Kow. We missed you on the all-in pod. What happened? |
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