AI Avatars aren't great actors...

They don’t actually understand what they’re saying or how they should say it.

Until now – with EXPRESS-1, we’ve trained our avatars to perform like an actor: tone of voice, facial expressions and body language👇

Chief Scientist Morgan McGuire (@casualeffects) sat down with Matt Turck on the MAD Podcast to talk about our platform, how it’s evolving, and the ways we’re utilizing AI to help our community stay at the forefront of creation. youtube.com/watch?v=pSD_Sg…

How Roblox ships fast, even as a $22B public company with 70M DAUs

We’ve asked our Expressive AI Avatars to act out 5 complex emotions 👇

Powered by our EXPRESS-1 AI model, the avatars actually understand the script and adjust facial expressions, voice and demeanour — without any input or fancy editing from our end. 😬

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Watch an AI grown man go through more mood swings in a few seconds than a hormonal teenager

Seriously impressive stuff from Synthesia 🎥 - the avatars understand the script and adjust facial expressions, voice and demeanour — without any input/editing

[New episode] AI at Roblox! The beloved platform has been doing groundbreaking work in Generative AI

We discuss it all with Chief Scientist Morgan McGuire (@CasualEffects)

YouTube: tinyurl.com/3u359fs6
Spotify: tinyurl.com/p8hx7jk7
Apple: tinyurl.com/579k9ck5

AI folks in NYC - join us for Data Driven NYC #112 on April 30

* Fireside chat with Renen Hallak, CEO of $9B AI infrastructure platform VΛST Data

* By popular demand, adding more demos, this time with founders/leaders from cohere, Dust and newcomer Espresso AI

RSVP:

“I think in this window before the election, you’re going to see more IPOs than you have in the last couple of years,” says @FirstMarkcap’s Rick Heitzmann Heitzmann

Synthesia on #ForbesAI50 list — for the second year in a row 🎉

Lots of work still ahead, but we must be doing something right 🙂

Next up on our to-do: launch of the world’s first expressive AI avatars >> bit.ly/expressive-AI-…

Let's welcome #Databricks Mosaic AI foundational models to the Dataiku #LLMMesh 🥳 Databricks users can now connect to Databricks and use the LLM Mesh to create scalable #GenerativeAI applications. Stay tuned for more announcements of brand new Dataiku features! #ComingSoon

Particularly insightful thoughts from top analyst Benedict Evans

* unbundling ChatGPT

* platform shift vs paradigm shift

* how to think of AGI in 2024

Links:
YouTube: tinyurl.com/3yjc6ejw
Spotify: tinyurl.com/4m2vu9rp
Apple Podcast: tinyurl.com/ya5hm5y8

The FirstMark team - “committed to finding stellar opportunities with out-of-this-world returns, even when everything else is shadowed.” ™️
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10 of the spicier takes from the 2024 MAD Landscape 🌶️

1/ Are a lot of AI startups already in trouble?

What can be possibly more exciting than squinting at thousands of little logos on the 2024 MAD landcape?

Well, listening to me talk about data/AI trends on a podcast, that's what! #thoughtleadership lol

Thanks Tristan Handy dbt Labs 🙏

Ep 59: roundup.getdbt.com/p/ep-59-the-20…

Congratulations Pigment!

We're honored to have been an early partner to this incredibly talented team, and it's been exciting to see such phenomenal execution and growth over the past few years 🚀

Looking forward to the journey ahead.

techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/bus…

Growth stage investing is dead?

Congrats Eléonore Crespo, Romain Niccoli and the the whole Pigment team on the Series D, led by ICONIQ Growth 🇫🇷🇺🇸

« The concentration of talent in NYC is unparalleled »

Indeed, as soon as we landed we bumped into exceptional Open Source founders in our hotel lobby citizenM hotels!

And guess what… they are 🇫🇷🥖😊
Pierre Burgy - Strapi.io 🚀 Aurélien Georget Strapi

What we talked about ⤵️

We are thrilled to announce our $145M Series D, led by ICONIQ Growth.

Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, and existing investors including IVP, Meritech, Greenoaks and Felix Capital also joined the round.

Read more: tinyurl.com/3t7xzvev

[New episode] Gary Little, CEO of Location.Foursquare

Foursquare’s remarkable evolution from social app to leading location intelligence data platform

YouTube: tinyurl.com/y5tp78hp
Spotify: tinyurl.com/5emztwja
Apple Podcast: tinyurl.com/3xdhzttc

Excellent piece by Natasha Loder 🐋 in The Economist, featuring Ezra® as one of the AI companies at the forefront of healthcare innovation:

economist.com/technology-qua…