When AI Meets Art

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On June 27th, the a16z team headed to New York City for the first-ever AI Artist Retreat at their office. This event brought together the builders behind some of the most popular AI creative tools, along with 16 artists, filmmakers, and designers who are exploring the capabilities of AI in their work. In this episode, we hear from the innovators pushing the boundaries of AI creativity. Joined by Anish Acharya, General Partner, and Justine Moore, Partner on the Consumer team, we feature insights from: Ammaar Reshi - Head of Design, ElevenLabs Justin Maier - Cofounder & CEO, Civitai Maxfield Hulker - Cofounder & COO, Civitai Diego Rodriguez - Cofounder & CTO, Krea Victor Perez - Cofounder & CEO, Krea Mohammad Norouzi - Cofounder & CEO, Ideogram Hang Chu - Cofounder & CEO, Viggle Conor Durkan - Cofounder, Udio These leaders highlight the surprising commonalities between founders and artists, and the interdisciplinary nature of their work. The episode covers the origin stories behind these innovative tools, their viral moments, and their future visions. You'll also hear about the exciting potential for AI in various creative modalities, including image, video, music, 3D, and speech. Keep an eye out for more in our series highlighting the founders building groundbreaking foundation models and AI applications for video, audio, photography, animation, and more. Learn more and see videos on artists leveraging AI at: a16z.com/aiart

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0:00.0	On June 27th, our team headed to New York City.
0:05.0	We are at the A16Z office for the first ever AI artist retreat.
0:11.0	That was A16Z consumer partner, Justine Moore. Justine
0:15.4	was one of many partners who attended this retreat, which brought together the
0:18.9	builders behind some of the most popular AI creative tools in existence.
0:24.0	That is 11 labs, Korea, Bigel, Urio, Idiagram, and Cibet,
0:28.7	all together with 15 top artists. These are the folks who are often doing the coolest things with these sorts of tools.
0:36.0	They're kind of pushing the boundaries of what the tools can create.
0:40.0	Today you'll get to hear from many of these AI founders who together with these
0:44.3	artists are advancing what it means to be creative. Art is going to get better
0:49.2	than ever. The average art output is going to improve, but so is the ceiling.
0:54.8	It also is a higher participation rate.
0:57.2	Everyone who's interested in creativity can be creative and express themselves,
1:01.2	which is just so cool.
1:02.8	That was a niche Acharya, general partner
1:05.1	on the consumer team, but that's not all.
1:08.0	I've been a founder twice.
1:09.7	I've been spinning records as a DJ for 25 years,
1:12.4	and I'm all about AI and art.
1:15.0	So what happens when you put all these investors, leading artists and creative tool founders
1:20.0	all into the same room?
1:22.0	I mean, the vibes have been immaculate,
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