
Open-source vs. "ClosedAI," demoing new AI tools & more with Sunny Madra & Vinny Lingham | E1742
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Sunny and Vinny are back to demo some new AI tools (14:08), discuss open-source vs. "ClosedAI" (38:45), and more!
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(1:31) Jason's trip to the UAE and Abu Dhabi's 30-year investment horizon
(12:39) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://miro.com/startups
(14:08) Sunny demos ChatPDF and LLMs' future in the workforce
(24:23) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(25:41) Google's new universal translator
(30:11) What is Hugging Face?
(37:26) iConnections - Get 20% off iConnections Miami 2024 event at http://iconnections.io/twist
(38:45) Open-source vs. "ClosedAI" and the race to build AI hardware
(48:28) Comparing Google Bard to ChatGPT
(1:01:13) Google's vision for Gmail and AWS's partnership with Hugging Face
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https://www.chatpdf.com
https://huggingface.co/espnet/kan-bayashi_ljspeech_vits
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