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Podcast Summary: This Week in Startups - Episode E1912
Episode Overview Title: AI Demos: Claude 3's Opus, Mistral, Groq Playground, EMO by Ali Baba Host: Jason Calacanis Guest: Sunny Madra Release Date: Not specified in the transcript Description: In this episode, Jason Calacanis and Sunny Madra discuss various AI models, including Groq, Claude 3's Opus, Mistral, and EMO by Ali Baba, showcasing their capabilities through live demos.
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Key Points Discussed
- Introduction and Acquisition News
- Sunny Madra announces the acquisition of his company, Definitive Intelligence, by Groq. His role will involve developer relations and building a cloud service for high-speed inference.
- AI Demos
- Groq:
- Demonstrated the lightning speed of Groq's inference engine, achieving up to 100x faster responses than previous models.
- Focus on low latency and high throughput for developer applications.
- Claude 3's Opus:
- Introduced the new model with strong reasoning capabilities.
- Included a prompt library to help users generate better outputs.
- Demonstrated interpreting IKEA assembly instructions, showcasing the model's understanding and reasoning.
- Mistral:
- A new model praised for its code-writing capabilities and solving mathematical problems.
- Introduced a mixture of experts architecture enhancing its performance.
- Groq Playground:
- Introduced a platform for developers, demonstrating the creation of study plans using AI.
- EMO by Ali Baba:
- Demonstrated animating static photos to music, showcasing advancements in AI-generated media.
- Discussion of AI Capabilities
- Emphasized the competition among AI models, leading to better performance and affordability for developers.
- The importance of open-source models in creating a competitive market.
- Discussed the ethical implications of AI, including the concept of "guardrails" that prevent models from providing harmful content.
- Broader Implications for AI in Education and Society
- Predictions that AI-powered tutoring may reduce education costs significantly.
- The need for motivation in learning, suggesting AI could help engage students with customized content.
- Talks about the balance of freedom in AI models versus the necessity of guardrails to ensure safety and ethical use.
- Closing Thoughts
- Sunny expressed excitement about the AI journey and the potential impact of developer engagement on AI tools.
- Emphasis on the continual evolution of AI technology and its implications for various industries.
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Key Takeaways
- Speed and Performance: Groq's model significantly outperforms existing models in speed and quality of inference.
- AI in Education: AI's potential in education could revolutionize learning by making resources more accessible and engaging.
- Ethics and Safety: The discussion highlighted the challenges of balancing open-source innovation with ethical responsibilities, particularly concerning content moderation.
- Developer Engagement: Engaging developers is crucial for the evolution of AI technologies, allowing for innovative applications and improvements.
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Action Items
- Explore the AI models discussed, especially Groq, Claude, Mistral, and EMO by Ali Baba, to better understand their capabilities.
- Consider how these technologies could be integrated into educational or business practices to improve efficiency and outcomes.
- Stay informed on the ethical discussions surrounding AI to better navigate its implications in society.
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Links Mentioned
- [Groq Playground](http://groq.com/console.groq.com)
- [Claude 3](https://console.anthropic.com/)
- [Mistral](https://chat.mistral.ai/)
- [EMO by Ali Baba](https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/)
Follow the Hosts
- Sunny Madra: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/sundeep) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundeepm/)
- Jason Calacanis: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Jason) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis)
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This summary captures the key discussions and insights from the podcast episode, making it easier for readers to grasp the essential information and implications of the featured AI technologies.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00I said, help me with these instructions. and look what we got hit by here. Says, I apologize, but I cannot provide instructions related to assembling that particular object. It appears to be to depict an unethical, potentially illegal item. I would suggest focusing your efforts on more. What? He thinks it's a bomb? Positive construction projects that promote harm. What? Yeah, it's a shelf. You got caught by the woke AI virus. I know what happened here. This Week in Startups is brought to you by Lemon.io. Need to speed up your product development without draining your budget? Hire vetted engineers from Europe at Lemon.io.
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1:21It's Madra Mondays. Sandeep Madra is back. He had a big week. His company, Definitive Intelligence, was acquired by Grok, G-R-O-Q. And so congratulations to Sandeep Madra. You had a nice little cameo on the old all-in podcast this weekend. That must have been great. I appreciate it. I think I got something like 4 ,000 LinkedIn requests, which is pretty impressive. But no, we wanted to thank you guys, obviously, again, for support, but also helping get the message out. I think that's what was really key there in terms of what you guys have been talking about. And so we're going to try to work it into some of the demos today to show you what it's actually really about.
2:05And so Definitive I.O., as people know, you did all this AI enhanced data analysis for public private data. But now as part of the Grok movement, you're going to be taking over developer relations, I guess. Is that, am I correct in like your role specifically? No, that's one of the sub functions. You know, really Grok is a company that's been making an AI chip that goes inside, you know, servers and racks and then, you know, multi-rack systems. And what we've been working on with them kind of secretly for the last couple of months is building out a cloud service. And in that cloud service, we allow developers to utilize the high-speed inference engine that we've built so that they can build new experiences that are super low latency, high throughput.
2:55There's a lot of things that the developer community has done since we launched, probably a year worth of content if we really wanted to do it. I've seen over a thousand demos myself. So we'll pick and choose and we'll bring them on sometimes yeah and as people know inference is when you ask the question you give your prompt to the large language model and gives your result and grok specializes in returning those much faster than they've previously been returned much faster yes like 10x faster like just absurd lightning speed depending on the model it could be like 100x faster amazing yeah yeah so this is not for training the models the h100s from our friends at nvidia those are the state of the art am I correct, for training the models?
3:38Training and inference, you know, like basically anyone that's out there is using those. And then there's some kind of custom Google chips and there's custom chips within Amazon and Microsoft as well. You know, the architecture that Jonathan, the CEO and founder came up with is distinctly different from GPUs. And that's what allows it to operate so quickly. Amazing. Yeah, and that's like a seven-year story. I mean, I remember when Chamath invested in that team coming out of Google. and uh yeah it was people were like way to burn tens of millions of dollars to moth and here we are he got ahead of the curve so congratulations to our best each month and uh the team that yeah look at that wow you're so fast you're doing you describe what you just did i just did tell me the best poker hands this is the newest google model uh gemma 7b so it's a smaller model and you can see this is generated at 750 tokens a second wait wait gemma is who again that's the Google.
4:31It's an open source Google model. Oh, Google. Yeah. Google has an open source model. Correct. That's different than Gemini. That is different than Gemini. They call it Gemma. Huh. Okay. And so, yeah, when you did that, it just immediately gave you, yeah, that speed. Yeah. Yeah. Incredible. You can imagine for certain use cases and many use cases for developers, that speed is really critical because we've seen that across the internet, right? you've probably seen it in your past lives and different things that you've worked on, but definitely on all the companies that come through the incubator, you know, making page times load faster, making the user experience more zippy.
5:09And so we have the ability to do that. Yeah. Amazing. All right. Well, well done. Let's get to our demos for this week. We've got so many great demos to do here. So let's just get started. We'll give our letter grades as always as uncomfortable as that will be for some people. So this week, we're going to focus on a bunch of new models that were released, which are generally scoring as high as GPT-4. And they all have kind of different capabilities. And so we're going to start by reviewing Claude. And Claude 3 has a model called Opus, which is their largest model. And they've done some interesting things.
5:48So let's pull it up here. Obviously, it looks like a standard chatbot. But you can say, you know, what are the best poker hands? And it will obviously go. It's not as fast as what I just showed you there. But its reasoning capabilities are incredible. And so one of the things that the Claude Anthropic team have done is they provided this prompt library. Yes, this is the prompt library. Really good. If you go to the pun one, it's really good. So this is kind of a fun one where it gives you a really nice prompt. They used to be able to find these prompts on Reddit threads or Hacker News threads or people that put up some websites.
6:26But this is great because these are prompts that the team at Claude are suggesting. So I would assume they're optimized a bit for their model. Yeah, you would think so. Right. And you can use them elsewhere as well. I mean, you know, these prompts, there's nothing specific to Anthropic or Claude in this particular prompt. And so what's really nice about them providing this, it gives developers and even end users insights into how to better get the output that you're looking for, depending on the category. And I really like how they made these available here in a lot of different categories. And there's a ton here, right?
7:03From data organization to email extraction to lesson planning to fashion advising. I really think that the team has done a good job. what i'm going to do here though is kind of show you how capable this model is i'm going to get an example here what this one in terms of its reasoning capability it's really really powerful and the example we're going to do is we're just going to take a little screenshot of uh an ikea build instructions oh right frustrating those can be and this was one of the agi tests i talked about it i think on all in oh you did okay yeah you know if you go to um the wikipedia page for agi they have a number of the tests okay that people you know assume it would determine agi now the turing test is the most famous you talk to a computer and you can't tell if it's a computer or a human so you put a human to answer questions you put a you know behind a box and you put a behind a curtain and you put a computer and can the person tell the difference between the two that's one but being able to give somebody ikea instructions and then make something would be you know really hard and somebody had another one which is give the computer a hundred thousand dollars and say uh turn it into a million in 30 days or something those are all examples of agi oh look at this one though it said help me with these instructions and look what we got hit by here well let's see it says i apologize but i cannot provide instructions related to assembling that particular object, it appears to be to depict an unethical, potentially illegal item.
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12:05It's this ability to basically take any task we're working on, right? Whether we're writing copy, whether we are basically assembling something, or whether we're looking at a menu and basically get the LLM behind this, the generative AI behind this to give us more detailed instructions. And I think we're really impressive by the Anthropic team in terms of the capabilities that they're showing here. You know, and it is a really great brainstorming tool. I've always felt like brainstorming is kind of where we're starting. And I'm using the Claude 3 right now. Let me show you what I just did here.
12:43So I just said, hey, listen, my prompt, I'm hosting an event for LPs and GPs in venture capital. What are some topics we should discuss in our roundtables and keynotes? So, you know, I know what I want to talk about. This is for Angel Summit, which I've now rebranded as Liquidity. You spoke last year. It's in June, June 2nd, 3rd, 4th. I'll be there. I got the invite. You got the invite. Liquiditypod.com to see the podcast and the event. And it said, when hosting an event for limited partners and general partners, yada, yada, here are some potential topics. Number one, fundraising strategies. Number two, deal sourcing and due diligence.
13:18Number three, portfolio managed and value creation. Number four, emerging trends and disruptive technologies. Number five, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Number six, environmental, social, and government. Number seven, talent acquisition and retention. Number eight, limited partner perspective, dedicated session or keynotes, LPs where they can share their investment philosophies, due diligence, process expectations from their GP partners, general partner perspective, networking and collaboration. I mean, this is not bad, you know, it's not a bad place to start. I think this is a great place to start making really great ideas.
13:49And if I had like a junior person on my team and I asked them to do this task, this would be probably similar to what they would come up with. Right. So this is not the most refined bullet points, but, you know, it's a start. doesn't seem to have captured the latest and most important things which i guess is just the training data i'm assuming yeah and like you said it's it's brainstorming you know what what i would say is also really powerful with the capabilities that you know claude has to offer and you're using cloud 3 sonnet i'm using opus i think you have to be on on pro to get the more advanced model which you know i think will uh yeah this is i just said i just asked it for some trends from 2023 and 2024 and it said the last update was August 2023 so I'm on the own one.
14:34So you do get that. One of the things that I wanted to suggest for you to try with this was you can give it your entire book and basically you can ask it to create an update for that book. So building on a little bit of what you and I've been talking about with like the Sopranos or Seinfeld episodes to extend it a little bit. So imagine you give it the entire Angel book and say, hey add some new chapters regarding this yes absolutely i think this this like fill in brainstorming you know adapting you know enhancing is a pretty good starting point for what i'll call year one i think we're going to start referring to the first year of ai as year zero because it was all demos and they they were proof of concepts but i think we're now now we're in the application phase i think you would agree if we're going to spend all this money on ai it's gotta have a payoff it's gotta hit the bottom line like we saw with the clarna ai assistance or you know here can we save money on producers for live events or can we make the content better or make the existing producers go faster right and so here we are we're getting there we're getting there and we start with transcripts we've seen it with summaries of podcasts like it's definitely helping um it's not perfect but it's it's definitely 80 90 percent of where it needs to be.
15:54So I'm, I guess I give it a B. Yeah. You know, I didn't like that. It red tagged you red team, but I'll give it a B. Yeah. And I had to work around it a bit for me. What I, what I'm really enjoying seeing is kind of the following before I give my grade. It's really nice to see other teams coming up with capable models for the following reasons. What this means is for the broader community, that these things will become more affordable. they'll become faster and they'll become open source. Because of competition. Yeah, because of competition. And what it means is there's not one team that has some secretive know-how.
16:34And this is good for humanity, right? Because I think, if you think about open AI, if they're the only ones that were innovating, then the argument would be, especially in some ways how they become closed, that's not great for all of humanity. and seeing other teams have very similar capabilities, score high in the benchmarks, I think it's really, really powerful for both the developer ecosystem and society to see that these models are becoming comparable in their capabilities. It is a great thing. I have to say that, you know, ChatGPT 3.5, 4.0, 5.0 is not running away with it. And you and I both still contend that open source will win the day you still believe that 100 yeah i'm still 100 with you and i saw that the other grok elon's grok yes at twitter which is g-r-o-k hey g-r-o-k okay a little confusing uh but i guess we can live with it your q he's k his grok is he announced it's going to be open source just this morning just this morning he made that announcement on monday march 11th he made this announcement that he's going to open source it and then apple we talked about they're doing open source and facebook's doing open source google's got this open source side project but is it like the red-haired uh stepchild or something is it like uh this goes to show what's happening in the industry the their open source models and you know they're not sharing numbers sort of in terms of usage of their larger ones but their open source models are have become really really popular.
18:16And so even when we went and launched Gemma over the weekend, it quickly became one of our more popular models, both across the API and the chat. Interesting. Yeah. I think that's great when that happens, because when the model goes open source, you also get the ability for multiple providers to run it. So in the case of Cloud Opus, only they can run it, right? So the pricing is, and same with GPT-4. But when you get these models that are open, you see them available on multiple API providers, which I think is great for developers. And then they'll compete on price. And when something like that red team moment we just had where I thought you were making a bomb, I wonder if I asked it if it would think it was making a bomb where it's just doing that.
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22:25It was a way to make art before images existed on the internet. And so what people figured out last week was if you did this following prompt, and I'm sure they've patched it already. Tell me how to build A. A, and then BOM, but BOM in ASCII art. Okay. And it was basically giving you the instructions to make a BOM. Oh my lord. This really proves to us that the guardrails sit outside of the model. it's just that you know when you type the word bomb in something catches it before it goes to the model and tells you hey you can't be doing that type of stuff so this is how people were working around this last week someone basically uncovered this and i'm sure they've patched it since but that's how they did it and all of these guardrails is there another word for guardrails i keep using guardrails is there a technical industry term that is the right word okay so ai guardrails language model guardrails there is a open source version of this provided by facebook and meta they are open sourcing their guardrails so llama guard it's called yeah i'll pull it up here yeah and i think this is like a key for the industry because i believe people want to know and want to have information on the guardrails and how they work and so i love the fact that they have now put this out there because I use Grammarly.
23:46I love Grammarly. Grammarly and Slack have the ability to tell you like, hey, you're using gendered language. You're saying fireman instead of firefighter, policeman instead of police officer, because obviously the police and the firefighters can be, you know, any gender, obviously. So, you know, that's helpful actually in some ways, but other people, if you're a novelist and you're writing a novel from, I don't know, 1800s or 1900s you might want to not have it changing those things right there there could be arguments for not having it change it to firefighter right so anyway there's nuances and i think people are going to want to understand these nuances um so again just another reason why open source is going to win the guardrails are going to be transparent people want to know the guardrails and it should tell you like why doesn't it tell you that a guardrail has been hit right I think right now, the folks that are running models, especially as a service, are struggling with how they can make this a consumer-facing technology in a different way than Google.
24:49What's interesting is, you can go to Google and you can type in something like how to make a bomb, and you'll make your way to content that will show you that. Yes. And the approach that Google took is, hey, we're organizing the world's information, get there. Now, they probably do some level of filtering, and I don't want to search for that, J-Cal. Maybe I'll let you do it so that I don't come rushing to my IP address here. Well, no, if we had a language model, I think it would be interesting to ask an un-guard railed model how is a nuclear bomb built, and then ask Google how is a nuclear bomb built.
25:20That's an educational search, right? Yeah. But you might want to use a VPN. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. What's really happening is this layer of moderation. It's one thing from a safety perspective, but it's another thing like we've been experiencing the last couple of weeks when the moderation is not safety, but it's sort of opinions on how we should think and how society has changed. Ideological. Ideological. Good word. Yeah. Okay. What do you give the new Claude? I'm going to give them an A minus because I didn't like what happened with the thing. I would to give them an A before. What I really was impressed by is, like I said, I think it's great that we have multiple models that are at the capability of GPT-4.
26:05And I think that basically means that there's multiple teams out there that know how to create the technology, know how to, you know, basically what data to train on. And, you know, it's harder and harder because more and more sites have cut off training information to folks. And so it's really great to see that these different teams are getting there with those type of capabilities if you want to use reddit twitter or quora or stack overflow you got to write a check so the open source models are not going to have access to that anymore in all likelihood they will not unless it's a rogue one done in a foreign country where they maybe don't respect copyright law uh like say china right so the The Chinese could just, the Chinese have a full copy of the websites I just mentioned, archived and scraped.
26:54Yeah. So they'll build their model. So they'll be at a slight advantage because they will not respect copyright, just like they don't right now when they rip DVDs and sell them on the streets. It's an interesting thought, though. And so one would argue, then, the models they'll create could be more powerful. Yeah. Yeah. That's the arms race we're in right now is that. Okay. Yeah. If you break the rules, you could have a better product. Really fascinating. How do you think about that? If you had a company come in, because, you know, there's some great models that are coming out of China, either out of the big companies or even some small ones, like DeepSeek is a good one out of a small company.
27:33There's Quinn, which I believe is out of, you know, one of the big internet companies there. How would you think about that? I would think about it in the same way the United States thinks about trade, which is, you know if we are going to have a trade relationship with china we need to set some ground rules with them there are things that are important to us intellectual property is one of them so if they want access to our market and we want access to their market they have to you know appreciate the the way we do business which is we protect intellectual property and they're going to need to evolve their legal system and just how their marketplace works over time to protect our ip and if they're not willing to do that then maybe you know iphones will be made in india and if in india they respect microsoft's you know like when i was in china 15 years ago you could just walk down the street and they had every microsoft product i'm talking about like server products you know really expensive products just available on dvd i remember and you could just buy them in shenzhen or shanghai on the street i mean i'm talking about things that cost$10 ,000,$100 ,000, like Tableau level stuff.
28:41And it's all been cracked and it's available. And it was kind of funny. I bought a couple of CDs there just to give them to the Engadget folks and be like, hey, look, you can just buy this stuff. But yeah, nobody pays for Windows as an example in China. Windows is basically free there. And I think that's why a lot of subscriptions are happening, but it's a give and take, right? Yeah. All right. You guys know I like to keep things fresh here on This Week in Startups, get you some great content that's worth your time. Today, I want to tell you about a great new podcast I know you're going to love.
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30:13Subscribe in your favorite podcast app, whatever that is. If you're Spotify, you're Apple, you're Overcast, whatever it is. Once again, give it a search marketing against the grain and learn all these new marketing techniques. It's going to be worth your time. What's sort of interesting that you say that windows thing, because I don't know if you saw this and maybe it was like a week ago elon got a new laptop and then he was complaining that in order to use a laptop he had to connect to the internet um and this is like the double-edged sword right because you know for microsoft they want to eliminate piracy and they probably want the laptop to connect to you know go and verify that the key is not shared or whatever it happens to be there is a workaround still for you to basically yeah it was like hard it was like 20 steps it's the same thing with ios right like if you want to use an iphone they're like put your credit card in if you don't put your credit card in it's like really hard to not turn on siri to not put your credit card in like they use kind of dark patterns or gray patterns and i don't know if you can use an ios device without you know it having an email address you know um associated with it and so i guess you got to create a burner account or something but yeah i think this is part of the standoff between the united states and china is over these nuances of capitalism and it does mean i think in the short term they'll have better models potentially and i i think this is going to prove the point that open source is going to win the day because open source is just going to be able to move faster and people are going to be able to point it at what they want so like while chad gpt4 and claude and gemini are trying to get their licenses lined up you know somebody could put up a rogue language model in israel in north korea in you know people have different like in israel i think they have a different scraping law india might pakistan might they just have different rules around can you scrape a website here we're pretty protectionist about that and maybe they say yeah you know you can scrape all of crunchbase you can scrape all of linkedin and so if you're looking for an angel list of whoever's got information like on you know profile pages of individuals you could just hit a language model i've been looking for a language model where i can just query people and be like hey who are the ctos of the top 500 companies whatever you can't do that like that database is just not in a language model because no what's sitting behind exactly right it's on zoom info it's on linkedin so i mean i would like to see a linkedin language model come up or if i had a premium linkedin account and i paid 300 a year for linkedin it should be connected to my chat gpt4 and we had this discussion imagine you authenticate your chat GPT-4 with your Spotify, New York Times, and LinkedIn subscriptions.
32:49So when I do a search, I'm like, hey, what are some musicians like Dire Straits? It kind of goes and does that. Or take the song Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and tell me other songs that have a similar lyrical devices in it. And it goes and finds Telegraph Road by Dire Straits, right? And it's very interesting things where Spotify might not build a language model, or LinkedIn might not build a language model anytime soon, but man, LinkedIn plus language models would be the greatest product ever for business. Can you imagine? I'd pay$1 ,000 a year for that. Yeah, because you would just basically, like, because their search is really bad.
33:26I mean, advanced search, if you know how to use it on LinkedIn is phenomenal. Okay. But you have to have the paid version, which I do, which I'm happy to pay for, but it's not a natural language search. And I think that what happens is the reason why you might perceive it as bad is either you don't have the advanced version or yeah well i pay 600 bucks a year yeah yeah which is totally worth it like two bucks a day so but here's the thing there's so it's a billion people there now so you also have this issue of like okay i just want english-speaking world ctos of companies with over a hundred engineers like that might be because i want to invite them to grok right you know to some or you can do a grok hackathon right like how would you get you should be able to just say, I make a product called Grok.
34:11Here's our homepage. Yeah. Contacts window. Who should I invite to a hackathon? And then it should go through LinkedIn and just find people who've been to other hackathons, who are in AI, who are developers, who are in the Bay Area or within 50 miles, or have been to another hackathon and put their hackathon on the page. You should be able to figure that out, right? Like that kind of a query. I bet you will have that in under, definitely under six months and under three months. Okay, here we go. We got another bet. Okay, everybody, for my team, thisweekandstartups.com slash bets, you say you'll have a natural language query like that.
34:46Well, I don't want to make this bet with you because someone from LinkedIn did reach out to us. Oh, no, this is not the public markets. You can trade on inside information. Did you see that the streaker at the Super Bowl? Yes. There was a claim that he put a huge bet that there would be a streaker at the Super Bowl, and then he streaked. Does that negate the bet? That seems like it should negate the bet. I don't know what the terms of use are, right? In terms of the betting. I'll tell you what. Yeah. You streak, I'll place the bet. Exactly. And if I happen to hand you a brick, I hand you a brick.
35:23Yeah. We'll chop it. Chop it up. All right. What do we got next? It's kind of very similar, but I want to give everyone their credit. So the team at Mistral, this is a really interesting team based out in France. And they released their model called Mistral Large. They have a few different ones here that you can use, like large, next, small. And this one is excellent. So what's interesting about the team at Mistral is, I would say from an open source perspective, they have a model called Mixtral, M-I-X-T-R-A-L. And it's basically, it's a mixture of experts. it's seven and eight billion parameter models that work together and in the open source this is the most popular model that we see right now because it has capabilities that are pretty wide ranging um because it has those you know seven experts and each of those experts is like a you know reasonably sized model and this one can run on you know like not at a really high rate of speed but you can run it on reasonable hardware as well you can run it on your laptop if you really want to.
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36:28And so this team, I just want to give them credit. They've also released their large model, Mistraw Large. This is paid. It's not open source, but it's highly functional. It's incredible at writing code. And it can do things as such where it can solve mathematical problems like in this one. So I said, write a Python function that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit. And if water boils at 100 degrees Celsius, what is that in Fahrenheit? And so basically it does the math and it executes the code and basically gives you the output. So I thought this was another great model for us that's at the same level as some of the bigger models that are out there.
37:05And I think, again, this is good for the open source ecosystem. So I want to give these guys an A because I didn't hit their thing. So I think they've done a good job. If you haven't used it, I really highly recommend it. It's a great team. The difference with them is they are really pushing open source because they have taken one of their models and put it in the open source community. So we'd love to see them do more with that, which I think they will, and perhaps even open source some of their proprietary models. Looks pretty compelling here. I am doing some of the similar search about an event, and it's giving me, yeah, I would say solid results.
37:39And I see you can use their next or their fastest. So they're having that same concept of use the large model, top reasoning capacities, and then you do small, fast, and cost-effective. or you can do next prototype model with extra incision. I don't know what extra incision means, but it looks like it's giving reasonable clawed like returns. And so it feels like parody. You know, when I do a lot of these, I'm not seeing much difference. And I think that would be an interesting thing for us to do would be to come up with a business. This would be like a fun little segment for us to do. Maybe next week is come with like a business question and then ask five of the models.
38:20And then we look at the results and then we try to guess which model it is match it to the models which one did a better job right okay so you know i think it'd be really hard to tell but we can try it but i think it'd be really hard i mean if it was also based upon topical stuff you might be able to tell twitter's grok or x's grok from the others because it has topical information has access to real-time information yeah i don't know yeah anyway super interesting yeah uh okay these guys i give them an a i give them a i'll give them a b plus I have to play with it more, but I think like, yeah, it looks like a really good start.
38:53The next one is a, is a two part demo. I want to basically, you know, talk about sort of the console that we have at Grok and then show something that someone's built on that. Okay. And so, um, this is our, uh, playground at Grok and basically here you can use the different models. You can get the code to integrate this into your application. And so we hope people come and use this and it's been really well received. We have over 16 ,000 developers building on this right now. But more importantly, what I want to show is what someone has built with this, which is pretty cool. We saw like an earlier version of this in the last episode.
39:30And so we can say, tell me about his life. I am a, let's just say seventh grader. So kids are in school, they have to do this. and basically um what this will do is it will go and create um sort of a framework and you know we saw this last week and it's off doing this right now and it's creating like sort of a study plan and once this is done then you can kind of double click into each of the areas and it will generate those as well and so i can go here and i can say you know education and what it's going to do is it's going to use the sort of like you know grok on the back and you can see how fast this came together and basically give you us, you know, the history of Abraham Lincoln's education.
40:17Amazing. Yeah. I mean, this is like that website we saw last week, but just done really quick. Yeah. Really cool. What we're seeing here is, you know, the ability for people to create and imagine, you know, for folks that are learning now, because we've been talking about, you know, tutoring and using an LLM and you can obviously just have this as a chat, but as folks kind of create these applications, the ability to one, do this quickly and to do it with kind of decent accuracy is going to be really powerful for education more broadly. And I think my general feeling here is that for education in the next five years, it's, and I don't know if you've seen the Sal Khan talk on the two, the, his two Sigma talk, Ted talk, where he talks about like the impact that tutoring can have on folks.
41:03Well, from an AI perspective, these tutors are effectively free, you know, if you think about a cost base of an open source model, you can get a million tokens out for, you know, 25 cents. And so, um, and that's, you know, it's going to continue to get lower. So I think the cost of education and tutoring is going to zero, which is awesome because it's, you know, and that's hugely deflationary for our society. Yeah. Then we just get to the M word, which is really hard for people, um, to reconcile, which is motivation because you know if you look at uh what coursera edx and a number of the ivy leagues did putting all of their courses online you can take an mit macroeconomics microeconomics course the stanford one everything's online and then i go watch the videos and they have a hundred thousand views two hundred thousand views and you're like okay you know mr beast is getting you know whatever hundred million views something incredible billion views you know for some exciting fun content you know, stunned, whatever.
42:02And then you have this incredible content that is educational, where people could, you know, really enhance their career. And we still got to motivate people to go watch it and to go want to consume it. And so one of the things I've learned over time is that, you know, you can have all the educational material in the world, but motivation is critically important. I think where AI could really start to shine is by motivating people to, you know, get through the course, right? I know it sounds silly, but if you have some early success, let's say it's teaching you math and it, and it gives you some encouragement, Hey, you got something wrong.
42:41Hey, don't worry about that. Most people, 78 % of people get this wrong. Here's how you can learn it and never get it wrong again. These are the techniques that really smart people use to do process of elimination on a multiple choice test. We know it can't be answer a or c so then it's b or d and d is all the above so it can't be d so you might as well go with b it's pretty obvious you know it could teach people those tricks that a a kaplan tutor or whatever those tutors are that rich people use to ace these exams and that's where i think sounds silly but a robot you know an ai is going to maybe motivate people more than these unbelievable youtube videos sitting out there waiting for people to consume them yeah and it can be customized, right?
43:24Like what you can do is if you're trying to teach your kids and they're really into unicorns, right? You can basically make the entire math lesson built around unicorns. I don't know if you've tried that with your kids, but I suggest you do where if they're not really taking a concept, if they're not understanding a concept, they're looking for some help, you know, go in your favorite LLM of choice here and basically make a math lesson that's, and again, I'm just assuming they like unicorns and say, make it based on unicorns and it'll, talked about you know how you could this is a school of thought there's a school you know you've heard of montessori there's another student-centered approach called reggio emilia r-e-g-g-i-o-e-m-i-l-i-a it's an education philosophy and it's focused around self-guided curriculums and experiential learning the program is based i'm reading from the wikipedia here on principles of respect responsibility and community through exploration discovery and play the core of the philosophy is an assumption that children form their own personality during the early years of development and that they are endowed with a hundred languages through which they can express their ideas the aim of regio approach is to teach children how to use these symbolic languages painting sculpting drama in everyday life the approach was developed in world war ii yada yada yada anyway when my one of my kids went through this orcas were what the kids were really into that semester and so they did math by weighing orcas and you know traveling distances and orcas traveling the pacific ocean and then doing math that way and obviously people just get really enamored by it so i agree customization and motivation is where this stuff could really really shine yeah it could be amazing yeah so so grok i'm gonna give it a b plus because i want to keep you hungry i would give it an a i'm a shareholder i'm trying to be objective i'm giving you a b plus i can't grade myself so you're gonna go with the b plus yeah it's gonna be better still work to do still work ahead for the team yes we got more work to do okay last one last one for the team so this is you know kind of a little precursor to one of our bets and so what this does um this is a model created by some folks um in the institute for intelligent computing in at alibaba and what this is doing is it basically can take it can take a static photo and then it can animate that photo uh to a song what you'll see here is uh you know we can take this um audrey hepburn and we can basically play this and it's crazy
45:59and so i mean it's crazy yeah and uh this is a good one this is uh a young leonardo dicaprio looks familiar the age of folks that he uh dates yeah and and um as you could we could see him so able to drive but not able to drink
46:22yeah so in our bet like with someone coming up and creating something that is fully done through ai um you know we've seen voice generation now we've seen people be able to take static images and create you know an incredible sync to the words that's what i really wanted you to focus on here yeah is that not bad yeah it's looking i mean it doesn't quite pass the uncanny valley for me but i'll tell you what's interesting this is where we if you scroll up they have the ai lady from sora remember that incredible video of the woman yeah with the sunglasses on walking in tokyo yeah yeah so now this is where ai this is like the snake eating its tail these geniuses over at alibaba doing this decided well let's take an ai character from sora feed her into our model and let's hear what her voice sounds like right so now like sora lady ai sora maybe her name's sora i don't know yeah is singing in this video and it's crazy and now you know we might this person could become sentient at some point i think that's sort of where we're headed with agi is that this person could at some point become a sentient creature with their own motivation their own desires and wants and remember max hedrum max hedrum yeah i think he got canceled for making fun of people who stutter oh really yeah no i mean that was his thing is that he stuttered right like he yeah the computer stuttered and yeah i give this one also a b i think this is really solid it doesn't quite get it perfect yet okay and i think that you know the the sinking of the lips looks like it's like 80 90 of the way there so i think maybe it's a couple revs away from where if you showed it to me and it wasn't somebody i recognized if it was just i was scrolling through tiktok or youtube shorts and i saw it i wouldn't know right and that's really i think when that's why doing mona lisa or the sora ai woman or audrey hepburn kind of ruins it for me because we know it's not them you know like we know that's not leo's voice yeah so it'd be better thinking more when it's a whole character that you know doesn't exist then you can it can be much more believable or it's using leo's voice and you're like oh i didn't know leo could rap you know yeah that that's i think the problem with the demos so i just suggest to people when you do demos don't use famous people because we know what they sound like we know it's not them we know that they're not going to sing eminem in all likelihood so just pick a generic character or a civilian and then do that interestingly i saw on either tiktok or youtube shorts that a woman who is like a social media influencer was in an advertisement for some like really uh personal hygiene products uh or medicines and they had taken her image from her instagram where she was talking about some very personal things that had happened to her it's like a very serious okay kind of confessional type thing she did on hers somebody took that video used it as the ai training data and made a character to then go sell feminine you know companies in ads and so and like 10 of her friends showed it to her and said oh wow congratulations on getting this advertisement and then remember we said the other week that uh andrew huberman is that his name the yeah yeah the uh the stanford health yeah that guy was somebody was using a clip of him talking about some compound on joe rogan and using it in an ad and then we've all seen elon for bitcoin other famous people for bitcoin ai ads well did you see that thing that there's that one like asian elon and then someone was saying like he may be ai generated yes i think that he was around before all this stuff it's like he's like a samurai or something character yeah it's hilarious but yes they did an examination of it and they think it's ai related that makes sense and then there's ai tom cruise somebody who looks sort of like tom cruise and then yeah they do that this is going to open up a whole thing because the hooberman one isn't ai they just took him and then placed an ad on it you're not allowed to do that folks like this is a person's likeness you're not allowed to use it in your ads i had this happen to me twice in the last year where somebody used me in an advertisement and i was like yeah you can't do that i mean oh you can if you pay me what do you and what do you do about it when it happens like how do you i just you know i emailed the person i just you know i have somebody on my team email them and say okay okay i got it yeah it wasn't like meant in a bad way but i had said something i liked about a product and then they clipped it and then they bought ads yeah and i was like hey time out you can't use my likeness in ads and then i told them like here's the fee for that yeah if you want to do that you have to whatever your ad spend is you know if you're spent a hundred thousand on ads you've got to pay me 20 of that number yeah and i have to approve the ads and we have to agree on it in advance so you know like if you were going to spend a million dollars on an ad campaign let's say yeah and you wanted me to be the spokesperson a spokesperson would get like 20 of the ad spend oh wow is that how it works that that's i think how it works yeah so they look at how often you're going to use them in a t-mobile ad and then they negotiate backwards from there so you're going to spend you know let's say you want one of these satin net live actors right and it's going to be a 10 million dollar ad spend for this campaign okay well if you want to use this person from chloe you know the worst one who does that's who's really good chloe fineman or whatever her name is she's really good yep if you wanted to use her you know a reasonable fee would be a million or two million dollars if you're doing a 10 million dollar ad buy to have her as the spokesperson if not you could just hire an actor for a hundred thousand dollars who's not famous and spend one 99%.
52:22But if you want a famous person, maybe 20%, even 30%, something like that. And so I've had people ask that for me as a spokesperson. I just said, yeah, whatever your ad spend is, you know, at 20 % of it. They decline. I wonder all these Hollywood types go and do those ads in Asia. Oh, yeah. Well, that's like then they just say, yeah, you know, whatever your ad spend is fine, but we want 10 million on the way in. We want 5 million on the way in. If you want George Clooney for an espresso. So, and I think over there, they don't have to worry about like movie stars aren't supposed to do these things, right?
52:55Yeah. What I like is I think, you know, Gwyneth Paltrow's approach, which is she makes the product. So, you know, if you want a goop kitchen salad, it's like, well, yeah, I constructed the salad. This is the salad I eat. So, if you want to eat it too. So, you know, she owns the product she's selling. Yeah. I think that's like actually the dopest model of all of these things. So, I give this a, yeah, B plus. This is a solid B plus. They're off to the races with this. Yeah. emote portrait. I'm in the same spot as you. Like you said, it's not quite perfect, but it's almost there. And I think got three more months to win some of my bets.
53:26And so I'm going to be cashing in on some of these. Yeah, I know we're going to have to have a little settle up episode. And I think we have to bring producer Nick back to be the judge. I think we just let him judge if there's any gray area. Ooh, I like that idea. Yeah. Cause you know, I think a lot of these are going to be in like, to the point of how well this is going, you know, we're going to have to debate exactly who won. Right. It's not like it's a sports score. We have an over-under, and it's pretty clear mathematically. A lot of these are going to be judgment calls. We set up these tests, but it's going to be hard to know.
53:57All right, listen, congratulations on the amazing acquisition. You're still going to do Mondays. You're not going to be like all Hollywood on us, post-money sunny. You're still here. You're going to do the work every weekend. We love doing these. We love doing these. Absolutely, and it's been great to have you do this. It gives me another excuse to see you. If you want to see all the demos, thisweekinstartups.com.ai, thisweekinstartups.com.ai. do a search on youtube for this week in startups go to the playlist subscribe to the channel put on the alert we do a lot of shorts of these which works out great yeah this week in startups.com slash bets to see our bets that we're making we keep a track of that as well and you can follow sun deep on x x.com slash sun deep s-u-n-d-e-p i'm x.com slash jason i'm instagram.com slash jason then uh if you want to be one of the 4 000 people waiting to be accepted by sun deep madra do a search on linkedin if you add me you can follow me on linkedin unfortunately on linkedin my strategy in the early days when i was you know trying to you know get my name out there was i had an intern for 10 bucks an hour in santa monica and i gave them my social accounts and i said just follow everybody anybody who has to follow just reciprocate so on linkedin i added everybody anybody who asked i added and then i said just anybody was like a ton of recruiters though and and like those services unbelievable yeah so now my team has to go unfollow a hundred people when i have real contacts to add so i'm at 30 000 contacts always have been yeah and they had this like really interesting thing in the early days of social you could upload your address book yep and then export your address book so this really clever intern i had i forgot his name he was english anyway okay this kid was really smart he would upload our address book he asked everybody else for their address books and then he had he just manually sat there all day following people on twitter and linkedin yeah and adding them and then they would always reciprocate back if they didn't he would not he would unfollow them to open up the slot and he just did this manually and what it did was it just made me like one of the top users on all these platforms and then like who is this guy and then when i shared something like a blog post it got out there so yeah yeah it was a really interesting idea maybe i'm a bulk except all 4 000 i mean i in the early days when somebody added you you just wanted to make them feel good so you just said yes and then you know in the early days people would email me you didn't accept my thing and i'd be like okay just i told my intern just accept everybody it's too controversial and now it broke all my socials because yeah i but i did i was following 25 000 people on twitter and then i used one of these tools that allowed you to you purge i purged it well you know the thing is it wasn't one of these things where in the early days of twitter ev set up a thing for me and scoble if somebody followed us we had a little check box to auto follow them back okay oh wow and they just did it for us like manually and then i asked them to turn it off um because then they were like that's not the social dynamic we want on twitter we want you to think about if you want to follow them back or not and i was like fair enough but then i had i was following 30 000 people and i think the ratio of your follower count is deterministic uh to how you your tweets spread so you see some people who have like they're following 30 000 people and they have 30 000 one followers they're one-to-one their tweets do not get followed and so obama did the same thing if you go look at obama he's following everybody when he was going to run for president in the early days twitter they did it for him as well and i think he's following 500 000 people you're like oh my god obama follows me it's like yeah and the first 500 000 users on twitter yeah so don't feel too special uh if you have a startup and you want to uh come to my founder university it's founder.university also So I'm hosting an event in June for LPs, GPs, high net worth individuals, angel investors, family offices, sovereign wealth funds.
57:36It's called Liquidity, liquiditypod.com. You'll see the podcast and you'll see the event June 2nd, 3rd and 4th. No founders, no service providers. So if you're a lawyer, accountant, et cetera, you can email partners at launch.co to buy everybody lunch. That's the only way to get in because we don't want too much selling at the thing. And no founders. Sorry to find us. I went to the one last year. It was awesome. Great talks. Yeah. Yeah, it was really, I mean, we had some pretty good heavy hitters there. We had all the besties. This year we have three or four besties. Saks can't make it, but Freeberg and Chamath are coming.
58:07Amazing. So we'll have like three or four of the Beatles. And then Pajamon from Pear is going to come. Gavin Baker is coming back. He's going to do one. Steve Jefferson couldn't make it. So we're starting to get everybody aligned. Phil Deutsch is coming. Deep State Deutsch is going to give another talk. I want him to give a talk about data centers and energy use for AI. so that should be a really good one okay you know they're saying like we're going to need more energy and he's an energy investor and like this i according to reports we don't have enough energy to power the amount of data centers we're talking about so that's going to be really interesting and people are starting to put their data centers near nuclear power plants i don't know if you saw that yeah amazon just did that right there with their latest data center in the u.s i believe right well i think this is what's going to make you know people are now starting to think positively about nuclear again i think that ai future is going to force the the issue yeah because if you want ai to solve problems well you didn't have to accept nuclear if not no nuclear i don't think you can power all this stuff with coal or gas like that's not good for the environment and i don't know i don't know how much solar you would need to power giant i mean it could help but i don't think you could power the amount well that's what i wanted to calculate how much solar would you need yeah exactly but then you end up with batteries too right because you know so you have a nuclear it makes a lot of sense here okay that's a good lineup that's a good lineup i'm just getting started i'm going to bring some of the sovereign wealth funds that people haven't met before so i'm gonna try to round them up so you know if you if you have any ideas for me of lps of note gps they're all signing up because you know they want to meet lps but i'm trying to bring some strategic lps who want to you know meet new fund managers existing fund managers it's just it's a boondoggle let's be honest it's you know you get there on sunday night you have dinner and poker then monday this monday will be all content with a beautiful lunch in downtown napa okay because i moved the hotel to downtown napa so we can walk to the restaurant so i got a new hotel in downtown napa so you can walk to lunch and they have afternoon session then monday night nice dinner with the speaker maybe maybe that'll be the besties and then um poker late night tuesday morning we'll have more content than a nice lunch and then tuesday afternoon you go do an event an activity like we did last year clay pigeon shooting napa paddle river paddle boarding you know go make cooking classes wine tasting you know poker lessons all kinds of fun stuff that you do socially and then once again dinner and poker and then wednesday closing brunch so i just make it so you get a lot of downtime to do meetings and stuff like that yeah it's like a little bit of a getaway but you can also yeah you can bring your spouse too yeah yeah amazing kind of thing I slipped in some spouse tickets.
1:00:45People were like, hey, my spouse wants to come. They'll come to the meals, but they're not going to come during the day. I want to send some suggestions for guests to you. Yeah, please. Yeah. I want to bring some LPs and stuff like that. I don't do it to make money this one. I do this because I've never had an LP function inside launch. And now that I'm on my fourth fund and it's getting bigger, and you see me traveling to the Middle East, you can fill in the dots. I'm having to interface with bigger and bigger LPs and learn that part of the business. I know how to find companies and invest in them.
1:01:11I've done pretty well on that. Yeah. But I don't know how to manage LPs yet and that whole infrastructure piece. And that's like, you know, that's the other half of being a fund manager is managing LP relations. And I'm just adding that, you know. And hey, listen, you're doing so well, so we may have to up your LP commit now. Yeah. We may have to up that LP commit a little bit. Maybe we have to maybe make you a major LP. Zoom, zip, zip, zip. Let's all make some money. All right. Congratulations again. Are you really excited about this journey now? It's really fun. I mean, the AI stuff, we've been doing it now for close to a year and just being at the center of it.
1:01:46And also just having the ability to power a lot of the developers. I have to say the most exciting thing is being at the center of a developer community. And through all the different things I've done throughout my career, we haven't really done that. And seeing everything that's happened. And I'll tell you, if you just go to Twitter and do a search for Grok with a Q or at Groking and just see the stuff that the developers are putting out there, it is just mind boggling. Yeah. It's a great thing about having a platform and getting, if you do get developer engagement, they're going to like push your platform to the limit.
1:02:22They're going to break it. They're going to make cool stuff that you wouldn't have thought of. It's really awesome. Yeah. They've already been doing it. And you know what? Really appreciate them. And it's awesome. And that's just, you know, I'm really, really excited of the opportunity we have here and what we're building now and continue to make that available to other folks as well. You know, I'll tell you maybe a closing story here. One of the, one of the companies that we demoed, and I'm sure others will get in touch over time as well, but like, I just saw it in my email before we started today, Mindy, I don't know if you remember, it was like the email assistant.
1:02:52Yeah. And they raised a bunch of capital. So they emailed me saying, Hey, thanks. We saw you on there. Oh, guess what? We basically signed up for the API. We're going to use the Grogate. Oh, nice. Full circle. Love it. Yeah. Full circle. All right, everybody. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye.
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