"it takes us three months to build all the AI stuff and it might take Mailchimp 30 months. The question is, is 27 months enough for me and you to go and build every other feature in Mailchimp to the same standard. And if it's not, then we're goosed, we don't really have a play"↗

Very useful AI feature that people aren’t noticing is Whisper, the AI-powered voice to text system that is a free with the ChatGPT app It handles accents, noise, etc so much better than the Apple default that I will often use it for voice notes and paste the text into other apps↗

AI video has started to produce mindblowing results. (PT25) Here are the best AI videos this week:↗

Every week, SF’s top AI engineers and startup founders meet up and show what’s new in AI. No pitches. No grifting. Just code. Here’s what some of SF’s best hackers are up to this week at @cerebral_valley 🧵↗

Who are great early-stage pre-seed AI funds? Should be comfortable with R&D-heavy aspects/risks and technically competent. @w_conviction comes to mind - who else?↗

AI STARTUPS VS. INCUMBENTS Every day a new AI product goes viral on this website. But if your product goes head to head with an incumbent, their distribution advantage will probably kill your company. So what can startups do to compete with incumbent distribution? Read on 🧵↗

Live tweeting projects from @HF0Residency demo day! What used to take teams of AI researchers and huge $$$ is now available through a few lines of code for every developer on earth. Here’s what hackers at the forefront of AI are doing with that power. (1/n)↗

If you're thinking about starting an AI newsletter, don't. If you started one already (and don't have 100k+ subscribers) you need to rethink your business model. CPMs are too low (~$20) to build a business on sponsorships alone. You need another way to monetize. Services, sub…↗

Congratulations to everyone who took part in our #BuildwithClaude hackathon over the weekend! We’re so inspired by all of the passionate hackers and their innovative solutions. Let’s take a look at the winners:↗

AI just changed the game in filmmaking 📽️ Creators can now generate cinema quality short films, trailers, and teasers with 100% AI in just a few hours 🤯 10 favorite examples that will blow your mind:↗

100% AI-Generated. Just recorded a new tutorial about maximizing cinematic quality using current #AI tools. I'm shooting to drop it on Monday ahead of our August 1st course launch. #runwayml #midjourney #runway↗

Vino e Vendetta: Shadows of the Camorra Script: @maxescu and ChatGPT Images: @midjourney Videos: @runwayml Music and SFX: @epidemicsound Edited in: @capcutapp In the verdant heart of Campania, where grapevines sprawled across rolling hillsides, lay a charming vineyard. Its…↗

Music Artists as Superheroes This satire teaser was ENTIRELY made with AI 🤯 Images (Midjourney) + Motion (RunwayML Gen2) A THREAD 🧵👇 SOUND ON 🔊↗

As everyone is sharing their AI generated films, here’s my Burning Man. Video + sound is AI generated @RunwayML #Gen2↗

Been meaning to get to this after seeing some of the @clairesilver prompts. My first attempt at using @runwayml text-to-video. Please sound on for full feels.↗

“The Sands of Yunus” is a cinematic film trailer created using @midjourney and @runwayml by @acstle and @Katlatte as AI generative video continues to improve, we are on the verge of an explosion in new cinema and story telling will this technology become like the ‘printing pre…↗

TUTORIAL Here's how I made a Barbie video using only Al. Create your own in 7 easy steps! Let's go! 🧵👇🏼 #AiArt #BarbieMovie #Oppenheimer #RunwayML↗

I timed myself to see how long it would take to make a generic Nike ad using only AI. 📝 ChatGPT script 📸 Midjourney images 🎥 Runway image2vid 🎶 Triniti generated music 🗣️ Eleven Labs AI voice over 👨‍💻 Zero effort edit in iMovie It took me 45 min. The ad sucks.↗

AI video has started to produce mindblowing results and could eventually disrupt Hollywood. (PT22) Here are the best AI videos I've found:↗

What if AI took over Earth? 🤯 [EXODUS] an AI mini movie I entirely made using AI tools 🎬 read below 🧵👇↗

1/ @w_conviction wrote up some startup ideas we're interested in, as a beacon for founders 👇 *Embedding Generation & Eval *Dev-in-a-Box *AI Static Analysis *AI-Native MMPGs & Social *Intelligent RPA & Process Mining *Flexible Lead Enrichment *AI Video Generation & Editing↗

This puts so well into words the conversation I’ve had dozens of times in the last year. (1) Incumbents are positioned to succeed in AI broadly much more than startups because brand, data, distribution offer advantage (2) The SaaS 1.0 playbook is uniquely bad for AI because A…↗

6 months ago it looked like AI / LLMs were going to bring a much needed revival to the venture startup ecosystem after a few tough years. With companies like Jasper starting to slow down, it’s looking like this may not be the case. Right now there are 2 clear winners, a handf…↗

ChatGPT Plus just got an insane upgrade, The Code Interpreter 🤯 Now every user can employ their own personal Data Analyst Intern for just $20/month Here are 8 mind blowing examples users achieved in the past 24 hours alone (🧵👇)↗

#CodeInterpreter - "It's a very fast, coding intern, that's both really smart and really stupid, but the biggest advantage is, it never gets frustrated and never gives up" - @simonw Here's my evergreen #CodeInterpreterCan thread, w examples, tips, use-cases, and ideas👇 1/↗

Even if you’re a great programmer, I’ve found it’s a long climb to becoming a decent AI researcher. The skills around debugging training runs and intuitions around what is happening are really different. It’d be smart to start now though—you’d still be early. Lots of promise.↗

Business idea: - Service for a lawyer to check a legal agreement generated by ChatGPT and ensure they're legally compliant. Many lawyers will refuse to review other lawyer's legal agreements and only write their own.↗

💰Early-stage women AI startup founders: there's a community of investors who want to back you. Reply with your deets so we can reach out to you. 🤩 Co name 1-line description: 🔗 Co url: 🌱 Stage: 🌎 Geo: 🚀 Post-product + revenue: Y/N 👀 Fundraising: Y/N 💰 Have a lead: Y/N↗

I’m honoured to be appointed as the Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. A thread on why I'm doing this and how you might be able to help us.↗

What happens if you give GPT-4 access to a Google search and browsing API?↗