Created By Humans | Sila’s Battery Evolution | E2075
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Today’s show: Alex covers The Stargate Project, other hot news items, and two great interviews. Created By Humans’ Co-founder Trip Adler talks about the future of copyrights and AI. Gene Berdichevsky, Co-founder and CEO of Sila, discusses the future of batteries and our clean energy future.
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(0:00) Alex kicks off the show. (1:22) Introduction to Mistral's IPO, Anthropic's funding, and Project Stargate (6:01) Market reactions and AI funding landscape (10:19) Gusto. Get three months free when you run your first payroll at http://gusto.com/twist (11:35) Tripp Adler discusses AI in literature and Created by Humans (16:20) Authors' concerns and AI companies' reactions (19:42) Netsuite. Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at https://www.netsuite.com/twist (20:58) Tripp Adler on AI, copyright, and the future of authorship (27:47) Human-created content symbol and synthetic vs. human data
(29:52) Atlassian. Head to Atlassian.com/Startups/TWiST to see if you qualify for 50 free seats for 12 months. (34:08) Gene Berdichevsky on Sila's battery technology and Titan Silicon anodes (41:29) Battery tech's role in industry transformation and consumer devices (48:25) The impact on renewable energy and grid storage (53:02) Hard tech challenges, fundraising, and IPO considerations (56:38) Netflix's quarterly earnings and tech market forecasts
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| 0:00.0 | The third category of rights we're developing is what we call transformative rights. |
| 0:03.9 | I think this is where it gets really exciting. |
| 0:05.1 | So let's say you want to take a book and you want to use AI to transform it into a children's book |
| 0:09.5 | or transform it into a short video or you want to take the style of the author's voice and write |
| 0:13.8 | new books with their voice. |
| 0:15.1 | Or you want to take a book and personalize it for you. |
| 0:17.3 | There's this whole world of stuff that could be done that combines AI and copyrighted |
| 0:21.7 | content. And there's right now just no legal framework to make that possible. Actually, I really like |
| 0:25.7 | that. I'm curious now, like, if I could put myself into a Dostoevsky novel, I guess that's probably |
| 0:31.0 | not copyright protected, but you know what I mean, put my, my daughter's into a Harry Potter book or whatever |
| 0:35.5 | and see what would come out at the other end. |
| 0:37.9 | That's really fun, actually. |
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