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AI demos + Jason invests $25K live! | E1789

Aug 08, 20231 hr 17 min
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Today’s show:

First up, Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo some new AI tools, including auto-generated articles, social clips, and ChatGPT’s newest feature. (3:50) Then, Jason sees pitches from three recent Founder University graduates and invests $25K in one of their startups! (40:33)

Time stamps:

(00:00) Sunny joins Jason

(2:20) The pace of progress in the industry and influx of AI startups

(3:50) Sunny demos byword.ai

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(11:19) Building a company today and improving LLMs

(17:21) Sunny demos Submagic

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(25:09) Sunny demos ChatGPT’s new Custom Instructions feature

(29:40) TWiST's "all-star" summer and brief TWiST history

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(40:33) Jason and Kelly kick off another $25K startup pitch competition!

(44:13) Rami pitches Querio.ai

(49:18) Batuhan pitches BeforeSunset.ai

(59:54) Allen Pitches Semanttic

(1:07:03) Kelly and Jason share thoughts, then Jason picks a startup!

(1:11:34) Q&A with Jason

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Check out byword_: https://byword.ai/

Check out Submagic: https://www.submagic.co

Check out Querio.AI: https://www.querio.ai

Check out BeforeSunset.AI: https://www.beforesunset.ai

Check out Semanttic: https://www.semanttic.com/

Follow Sunny: https://twitter.com/sundeep

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