Daniel

The Marie Kondo of video. building - AI tools for video editors. AI. software engineering. ex-AgeOfLearning. edtech. Stanford

[Daniel @djacobs7]

1/27 Great first meeting of our AI paper club yesterday, which was inspired by a tweet from @andrewng about planning LLM agents.

DM or reply if you want to join the club!

I learned there is a great short phrase you can put into your LLM prompts that can make them work better:

[Daniel @djacobs7]

Galactic Fighting Championship is just better than whatever this white house fight thing is. Like do they even have giant crabs? Feels like a half-effort from Trump

[Daniel @djacobs7]

we spent $100 to create a better UFC than @danawhite in < 10 hours using AI.

The problem with UFC:
- fighters are not interesting enough.
- stakes are too low.
- no real action.

Presenting Universal Fighting Championship where aliens fight to death. Stay tuned for ep 2!

[Daniel @djacobs7]

IT'S OVER FOR HUMANS. Galactic combat is here. Could Claude win? Follow for more episodes

[Daniel @djacobs7]

Congrats on the launch!

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

Hollywood isn't dead. It's evolving. And we're leading that evolution.
We just shipped Koyal v2.5: The best Agentic AI filmmaking platform. It goes from your script or music to full video with consistent characters, settings & storylines.

Large Production houses, music labels & ad agencies use @KoyalAI for storyboarding & pre-viz.

Smaller studios use it for making content they never had the time, budget or resources to create.

Write a scene. Direct the camera. Build a world. @KoyalAI brings it to life.

Here's what's new:
- Go from script to video:
Write a scene with dialogue, pacing, emotion. Koyal fully realizes it. Using the best voice models on the planet.

- Direct the camera:
Push in. Pull back. Drift through a scene. Real 3D camera blocking. Shape the shot the way you see it in your head.

- Build a world that stays:Lock in a location and return to it. Your scenes stay consistent from the first frame to the last.

Plus: dialogue, SFX, annotations for editing, and more control over every shot.

Under the hood, we benchmark 40+ models weekly with real humans so Koyal always uses the best available (more on that next week!)

Our agents pick the best models for each scene in run-time so you focus on the story, we handle the complexity.

You don't need to prompt a film, you can direct it.

With Koyal, we're looking to replace the camera, not the filmmaker behind it.

Try it now at beta [dot] koyal [dot] ai

DM me for credits!

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

Hollywood isn't dead. It's evolving. And we're leading that evolution.
We just shipped Koyal v2.5: The best Agentic AI filmmaking platform. It goes from your script or music to full video with consistent characters, settings & storylines.

Large Production houses, music labels & ad agencies use @KoyalAI for storyboarding & pre-viz.

Smaller studios use it for making content they never had the time, budget or resources to create.

Write a scene. Direct the camera. Build a world. @KoyalAI brings it to life.

Here's what's new:
- Go from script to video:
Write a scene with dialogue, pacing, emotion. Koyal fully realizes it. Using the best voice models on the planet.

- Direct the camera:
Push in. Pull back. Drift through a scene. Real 3D camera blocking. Shape the shot the way you see it in your head.

- Build a world that stays:Lock in a location and return to it. Your scenes stay consistent from the first frame to the last.

Plus: dialogue, SFX, annotations for editing, and more control over every shot.

Under the hood, we benchmark 40+ models weekly with real humans so Koyal always uses the best available (more on that next week!)

Our agents pick the best models for each scene in run-time so you focus on the story, we handle the complexity.

You don't need to prompt a film, you can direct it.

With Koyal, we're looking to replace the camera, not the filmmaker behind it.

Try it now at beta [dot] koyal [dot] ai

DM me for credits!

[Daniel @djacobs7]

@DouthatNYT Did not mind this at all, reach out anytime !

[Daniel @djacobs7]

@aditya_advani @harshit_sikchi Great find. looking forward to giving this a watch!

[Daniel @djacobs7]

@runwayml The previous gen limitations are around: having talking faces, consistent characters, and controlling eye-line. As I test this model, that's what I'll be looking. Key question - will gen-4 stories finally have characters with mouths?

[Daniel @djacobs7]

Vibe coded a game today. Then made an MCP interface to play so that the AI could play/test. Was quite cool

[Daniel @djacobs7]

Weekend reading on nuclear fusion. Protons are happier together. Is there a fusion community around ?

[Daniel @djacobs7]

https://t.co/zbyucxN0d6

[Daniel @djacobs7]

This was my first time shipping an app for a specific event. Vibes coding is real. Link below

[Daniel @djacobs7]

Working on my series of constitutional snails

[Daniel @djacobs7]

Vibes coding today. still riding the loveable.train

[Daniel @djacobs7]

@AlexReibman Silly question - could you post a link to this? I haven’t been able to google for it

[Daniel @djacobs7]

This looks like it could be a big deal - looking forward to trying it out

[fal @fal]

We are thrilled to announce the release of the AI Video Starter Kit by @fal in partnership with @bfl, @LumaLabsAI, @genmoai, @TXhunyuan, @Hailuo_AI, @Kling_ai, @synclabs, @play_ht, @LTXStudio, uploadthing by @theo and @vercel.

AI Video Starter Kit is an open source in browser editor for AI video.

[fal @fal]

We are thrilled to announce the release of the AI Video Starter Kit by @fal in partnership with @bfl, @LumaLabsAI, @genmoai, @TXhunyuan, @Hailuo_AI, @Kling_ai, @synclabs, @play_ht, @LTXStudio, uploadthing by @theo and @vercel.

AI Video Starter Kit is an open source in browser editor for AI video.

[Daniel @djacobs7]

@deg3n @EHuanglu Yeah I had the same thought. It seems to work pretty well already to just ask RunwayML to have a green background

[Daniel @djacobs7]

https://t.co/RilJn1CfPB @colintjarvis We would love to have there if you can make it. Great chance to see how community members are benefitting from your course

[Daniel @djacobs7]

We are hosting our regularly scheduled paper club in 2 weeks, mix of engineers, scientists, filmmakers and educators, styaing up to date on AI. The subject is o1.