This Week in Startups: Threads, ChatGPT usage drops, and AI demos with Sunny Madra | E1774

Jason Calacanis Jason Calacanis 7/11/23 - Episode Page

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Today’s show:

Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo VenturusAI (11:01) and other tools, before discussing Sunny’s new AutoGPT project (34:38). They wrap up talking about Meta’s launch of Threads (49:08), Google’s attempts at building a social network, and Inflection AI’s new supercomputer (1:00:13).

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason

(1:49) ChatGPT sees a decline in growth

(10:22) Fin - Try Fin, Intercom's new AI customer support chatbot, at https://intercom.com/fin

(11:01) Sunny demos VenturusAI

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(26:01) Sunny demos Vercel

(34:38) Sunny's new AutoGPT

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(43:29) The decision to be open-sourced or closed

(49:08) Meta’s new platform Threads

(1:00:13) Google’s attempts at a social network

(1:03:28) Inflection AI's supercomputer, roundtripping and training LLMs

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