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New products. New technology. New experiences. New ways to reach consumers.
From idea to market.
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The entire city of San Francisco is spooked and on edge due to AI safety shit, it’s insane how much it’s bleeding into my everyday life. Like I was at my bus stop and I notice a guy looking really stressed out so I said hey, are you worried about misaligned AI too? He took out an AirPod and said “what?” So I said you know stuff like agent swarms, AI escaping RL sandboxes, existential risk. He paused his Barstool podcast and said “sorry, what? What are you talking about?” Just the mention of this stuff made him too anxious to speak, I think. So I said I know man, what?! is my reaction to all this too, and then asked him what his p(doom) is. He then said “dude is this some gay thing or something because I have no fucking clue what you’re asking me” then he got on the bus. People are not handling all this news well. It’s really affecting us. All of us.
Don’t be too afraid of AI.
There have always been people who functioned a little like AI or NPCs. Their consumption is predictable. They do what they’re supposed to do,buy what everyone else buys, dress the same, think the same, repeat the same opinions.We all know these people.
Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro.
>It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio
>2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs
>most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc
We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production.
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Silicon Valley has a massive PR problem, born in part from San Francisco’s lack of deep historical experience with advertising, mass-market persuasion, and public image management. That's been an East Coast thing historically.
Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham explains how he used ChatGPT/AlphaFold (spent $3,000 with no biology background) to create a custom MRNA vaccine to treat his dog’s cancer tumors. Unreal.
Din Tai Fung makes $27m per restaurant in America, the top average unit volume (AUV) in the industry:
▫️Mastro's Steakhouse ($14.5m)
▫️Cheesecake Factory ($12.4m)
▫️Nobu ($10.1m)
▫️Chick-fil-A ($9.3m)
▫️Benihana ($6.5m)
▫️McD ($3.9m)
To make soup dumplings, new chefs train 6 months going through thousands of xiao long baos (aka "little basket buns"). Each dumpling is weighed to 5 grams and has 18 folds.
“To generate unit volumes of [Din Tai Fung’s] magnitude, a restaurant generally has to do three things: It has to be big, customers have to spend a decent amount, and it has to be busy,” explains Restaurant Business. “Din Tai Fung checks all three of those boxes.”
When I go to Din Tai Fung, I check two boxes: 1) destroy a basket of 10 dumplings in 3 minutes; and 2) get that glorious dip sauce (1 part soy sauce, 3 parts vinegar) all down my white t-shirt.
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Tasty: https://t.co/H4nF5byX0r
@eladgil The "best", coming from SF, walk into Prospect Park and into Park Slope and see 4th avenue, go into cobble hill through pacific street, then have a coffee at the japanese place on teh corner on bond. take an uber to the french place that opened printemps