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Todays show:

Sunny joins Jason to dive into all things AI, including the power of Claude Sonnet (6:49), the importance of “AI Native” workers (21:40), Luna Labs and their recent video that brings famous memes to life (36:40), and more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason.

(2:26) Living in the toughest fundraising environment and the failure of Lina Khan.

(6:49) Let’s jump back into AI demos with Claude Sonnet.

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(11:46) Real-world applications with Jason’s team.

(13:52) Firing up ChatGPT 4.o for results that are extra-ordinary.

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(21:40) The importance of “AI Native” workers.

(23:50) Is Google search going backwards compared to the power of today’s AI models?

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(30:11) The omnipresence of AI at home and with work teams.

(36:40) Sunny demos Luna Labs, including the recent creation of bringing famous memes to life in one killer video.

(40:17) Sunny demos Kling.

(43:33) Sunny shows us Qwen, what he calls the best open-sourced model.

(49:04) Sunny demos the voices of Cartesia AI.

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LINKS:

Check out Min Choi’s Twitter post: https://x.com/minchoi/status/1807790101033890286

Check out Claude Sonnet: https://claude.ai/new

Check out Luma Labs: https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine

Check out Kling: https://kling.kuaishou.com/

Check out Qwen: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen2-72B-Instruct

Check out Cartesia AI: https://play.cartesia.ai/

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