Today’s show:

We’re back with two insightful new TWiST founder interviews.

First up: Dean Leitersdorf of Decart tells us about squeezing maximum productivity out of your GPUs. But it’s not all talk: he also shows us the incredible open world model that can magically transform live footage.

THEN! Jason and Alex chat with Syncere AI founder Aaron Tan about Lume, his robotic lamp device that went viral for folding laundry. Hear why Aaron thinks the future of robotics is not necessarily humanoid, and all about his future plans for the Lume arms.

Timestamps:

(0:00) Alex introduces our TwiST 500 interviews

(02:27) TWiST 500 Interview #1: Dean Leitersdorf, CEO and Founder of Decart

(04:37) Setting out to build a “kilo-corn,” a trillion dollar company

(06:27) How making AI much faster opens up a world of new opportunities

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(11:00) Why Dean thinks chatbots are the interface of the future

(17:24) How Decart builds and trains its models more efficiently (and for less money)

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(21:14) Show Continues…

(24:36) Interview #2: Aaron Tan of Syncere AI

(25:13) Behind-the-scenes of that viral Lume “robot lamp folding laundry” video

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(31:25) Moving beyond laundry: what else these Lume robots do?

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