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Nov 2023
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Jason Calacanis
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Today’s show:

Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss and demo xAI’s new chatbot, Grok (2:18), OpenAI’s new GPTs (31:54), and an AI designed to detect fake reviews (55:40). Then, Sunny builds a GPT live on air (36:22)

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(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason

(2:18) Sunny demos xAI’s Grok chatbot

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(21:33) Review and feedback for Grok chatbot

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(31:54) Sunny demos OpenAI’s Game Time and Invest America GPTs

(36:22) Sunny builds a Launch GPT live!

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(48:33) Unlocking the potential of GPTs

(55:40) Sunny demos Fakespot, an AI tool for spotting fake reviews

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