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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/
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