Building the Metaverse with Jon Radoff Podcast
1) AI and the Search for Truth and Answers | Perplexity | Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity allows you to ask questions and receive answers supported by citations from online sources: Wikipedia-meets-AI. I spoke with Aravind Srinivas, founder and CEO of Perplexity.ai, the company ...Show More
2) Winning the Tech Week Virtual Worlds Hackathon
Ali El Rhermoul and Jon Radoff's team at the a16z Tech Week AI/Virtual Worlds Hackathon won grand prize: it's a multiplayer online game featuring a persistent world, generative AI for storytelling (An...Show More
3) Skybox AI | Game Development | Adam B. Levine, Blockade Labs
I spoke with Adam B. Levine, cofounder of Blockade Labs, the company responsible for the generative skybox AI that can create 3D skyboxes from text prompts or sketches. One of the best applications of...Show More
4) AI Voice Synthesis with Zach Johnson | LMNT | Generative AI Games
Voice Synthesis is about to transform game development, virtual worlds and simulations of all kinds. I spoke with Zach Johnson, cofounder of LMNT, an AI voice synthesis company that uses the magic of ...Show More
5) Generative Emotes for Avatars | AI Animation | Yassine Tahi, CEO Kinetix
One of the fastest growing areas of creative expression in games has been the emotes and animations you can apply to your character in games like Fortnite. Yassine Tahi saw this realm of self-expressi...Show More
6) Text-to-world: Generative AI for world creation with Kayla Comalli, Lovelace Studios | Nyric
Lovelace Studios is building Nyric, a world-generation platform that starts with a text prompt and brings entire worlds to life. I spoke with Kayla Comalli (co-founder and CEO) about how they're doing...Show More
7) AI Storytelling and Narrative with Linus Ekenstam
Linus Ekenstam is a long-time product leader, AI educator, and the creator of Bedtimestory.ai. Parents use Bedtimestory to create personalized stories for their children. We discussed how language mod...Show More
8) Creative Technology and Generative AI with Bilawal Sidhu
Generative AI is accelerating creativity: complicated creative tasks that once took hours can now take only a minute. My conversation with @bilawal spans the transformative impact of creative tools li...Show More
9) ChatGPT and Game Development with Cameron Wills
Cameron Wills used ChatGPT to make a ChatGPT plugin for Unity, which became #1 in AI, and #2 overall on the Unity Asset Store. We talked about his experience as an indie game developer, his Unity asse...Show More
10) AI Art, Creativity & Copyright with Kris Kashtanova
Kris Kashtanova is an AI artist who published the world's first copyrighted AI-assisted comic book. Her journey with the US Copyright Office has been documented in the news. I spoke to her about her w...Show More