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1:01:53ENCompanion Apps Open Twice as Often as TikTok. a16z Only Funds Weird but WorkingHost Nathan Labenza16z consumer partners Anish Acharya and Justine Moore walk Nathan Labenz through their Abundance Agenda for AI-native consumer apps.
1:21:28ENThe Prompt Is a Bug: Suhail Doshi’s Bet on Control Over PixelsHost Nathan LabenzThe Mixpanel founder tells Nathan Labenz how a cloud browser, a canceled tweet, and a Thursday weight drop shaped Playground AI’s bet on images.
19:32ENAI News in October 2023: Disney Robotics, Creative Tools and Synthetic Driving DataMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of developments in robots, generative media, chips, satellite internet and AI copyright debates.
9:21ENDALL·E 3 in Bing and ChatGPT: A 2023 WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries DALL·E 3 in two interfaces and compares logo lettering and image styles with Leonardo.ai, documenting both promising results and service delays.
20:26ENAI News in September 2023: ChatGPT Vision, Meta AI and Mistral 7BMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a busy week of AI launches, robotics demos and investment announcements, along with emerging questions about privacy and security.
18:17ENAI News in September 2023: Apple, Model Releases and InfrastructureMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys a week of consumer products, autonomous-driving claims, safety policies and research, alongside an unverified extraterrestrial claim.
1:30:21ENA Million DALL-E Images, Distilled into Twelve Minutes of FilmHost Nathan LabenzWaymark’s Stephen Parker and Josh Rubin walk through how they turned stills from DALL-E 2 into The Frost, a narrative short, and what the next generation of video models changes.
2:32:49ENGPT-4 Failed a Hollow Top Hat. Hollywood's AI Deal Closed Only Half the Loopholes.Host Nathan LabenzWriter Trey Kollmer returns with a strike update, a copyright briefing, and a riddle that still fools the best model.
52:48ENCris Valenzuela on Creative AI, Runway and Building Through ChangeGuest Cris Valenzuela · Host Harry StebbingsRunway’s co-founder discusses early experimentation with video models, creative work, hiring and fundraising, and answers questions about the writers’ strike.
14:03ENAI News in August 2023: CAPTCHAs, LK-99, Medical Models and Generative AgentsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys a week of AI and technology stories, from automated CAPTCHA solving and robot prices to clinical research, content moderation and model safety.
5:25ENKwebbelkop's AI Avatar and the Future of Creator WorkMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn 2023, Matthew Berman considers a YouTuber's experiment with AI-generated videos, creator burnout, audience response, and disclosure.
5:14ENInstall AudioCraft Locally: A 2023 MusicGen and AudioGen WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a Mac setup for generating music and sound effects, with historical commands and licensing context.
10:22ENMatthew Berman on Llama 2, AI Tools, Robots, and the LK-99 ClaimMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 AI news roundup covers open-weight models, synthetic influencers, tool use and robotics, alongside an early superconductivity claim that later research challenged.
7:09ENAI News in July 2023: SDXL, Worldcoin, and Biological ComputingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of AI developments, from Google’s Gemini project and new generative models to biometric identity and experiments with cultured neurons.
39:50ENWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
9:55ENBuilding AI Characters With the a16z Companion AppMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through a 2023 starter project for conversational characters, from service configuration and embeddings to editing a companion’s personality.
9:33ENTesting SDXL 0.9: Image Quality, Clipdrop and a Midjourney ComparisonMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn June 2023, Matthew Berman tries Stability AI’s image model, compares selected prompts with Midjourney and demonstrates Clipdrop’s lighting tool.
1:03:40ENWho Banks the AI Wave: Startups or the Giants Already in Place?Host Nathan LabenzStability AI’s Emad Mostaque and Slow Ventures’ Sam Lessin debate whether generative AI is a reshuffler for new companies or an extender for Meta, Google, and Hollywood.
8:09ENText-to-Video in 2023: Runway, Colab and a Local Zeroscope SetupMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares a hosted Runway Gen-2 demo with a Zeroscope notebook and a Windows GPU installation, showing the short-clip limitations he encountered.
6:25ENBuilding a WordPress Site with 10Web’s AI Website BuilderMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through a 2023 website-generation flow, from business details and design choices to editing the resulting pages.
1:41:45ENThe Writers Aren't Luddites. They're Bargaining Over Who Holds the ModelsHost Nathan LabenzThree WGA members tell Nathan Labenz what ChatGPT can already do in a writers’ room — and which two studio nightmares the strike is trying to lock out.
11:07ENTesting MosaicML MPT-7B Chat and StoryWriter in 2023Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines MPT-7B model variants, their licenses and a mixed set of local tests.
7:41ENReconstructing Viewed Images From fMRI With Stable DiffusionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a study combining brain scans with a pretrained image generator. The experiment reconstructed approximate images viewed by four participants under extensive scanning and training, not arbitrary thoughts.
7:53ENAI Voice Imitations, ChatGPT Data Controls and Startup FundingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines synthetic pop music and artist consent alongside April 2023 updates from OpenAI, Replit and Pinecone.
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