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Apr 2024
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Udio AI’s Music Magic, Aqua’s Unique Dic...

Jason Calacanis
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Todays show:

Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news and demos including, Adam Schiff and the new bill to force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art (9:03), Udio the recent AI music creator catching a lot of hype (17:48), the AI dictation power of Aqua (39:10), and more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason to dive into this weeks AI news and demos.

(4:02) AI News: Meta, Google and Intel all launched chips this week.

(9:03) Adam Schiff and the new bill to force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art

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(17:48) Sunny demos Udio - the recent AI music creator catching a lot of hype.

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(20:56) Sunny and Jason further explore Udio and discuss the copyright issues around AI models.

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(36:31) Sunny creates a song with Udio about Jason’s passion for copyright laws.

(39:10) Sunny demos Aqua.

(45:36) Sunny demos SWE-Agent

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LINKS:

Check out Udio: https://www.udio.com/

Rolling Stone article on Udio: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/

Check out Aqua: https://withaqua.com/

Check out SWE-Agent: https://swe-agent.com/demo

Meta’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1778078194345955765

Google’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1777654095601348775

Intel’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1777725152102699026

Article on Adam Schiff introducing new bill: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/09/artificial-intelligence-bill-copyright-art

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