Zain Shah
@zan2434
teaching machines @southpkcommons previously: @samsung @opendoor @openai @ycombinator S13
IMO I still learn more from a 1 minute YouTube video than a 10 minute chat with even the brightest AI. Why? Because it's easier for me to learn complex topics when I can actually see them! 👀 So here’s a demo (sound on 🔉) where AI generates on-demand explainer videos for any…
If you're looking to do your life's work, you need to treat experimenting, getting to know yourself, the world, and how you fit into it, like your full time job. I know for sure I wouldn't be where I am rn without a community that embraces exploration like @southpkcommons does.…
1/ We're on the precipice of the most fundamental computing revolution I've seen in my life. You should have FOMO. Don't waste it in local maxima. The $1M @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship application is open. Here’s what it takes to build at venture-scale in the age of AI:
Questions over answers. We don't have requests for startups. We have requests for curiosity. Here's what we're most curious about right now.
You should take your time finding the right idea. Why? @alexandr_wang & @finkd have a few reasons:
🤯 Realtime streaming interactive video diffusion! Another one of those things I expected would happen eventually, at the soonest like 6 months from now ... but it's happening now.
Introducing Seaweed APT2, a real-time, interactive, streaming video generation model. seaweed-apt.com/2 Adversarial training for autoregressive modeling! Streaming 1 minute videos, 1 diffusion step, 24fps real-time on 1xh100, with interactive controls!
Last week at SPC Demo Faire, I demoed my new app Dig - it's an endless rabbit hole of AI videos generated for your interests, a curiosity-based social network designed to prioritize depth. Whenever something interests you, just swipe to go deeper!
4/ Dig Have you ever hit the end of a rabbit hole? @zan2434 has. So, he created Dig. If you have infinite questions, @digwithdotus has infinite answers.
What do y’all think? AI researchers from Zurich studying effectiveness of LLMs for persuasion ran undisclosed bots on the bot-free subreddit r/ChangeMyView who pretended to be victims of rape, trauma counselors, foreign hospital patients, etc.
Wow. Researchers secretly used an AI on Reddit’s r/changemyview/ as part of an unauthorized experiment
Two undergrads. One still in the military. Zero funding. One ridiculous goal: build a TTS model that rivals NotebookLM Podcast, ElevenLabs Studio, and Sesame CSM. Somehow… we pulled it off. Here’s how 👇
made a summer camp last year where we had: ⋆ 70 creative technologists ⋆ 10 days of nights + weekend workshops ⋆ 500+ show up at our final showcase we're doing another one this year + applications are now open 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 join us for Fidget Camp 2025 : )
Last year we ran an experimental 10-day nights-and-weekend creative retreat in SF. 30+ workshops, an amazing community and amazing makerspace, and a 500 person gallery show — art, engineering, and mischief, all together. AND WE'RE DOING IT AGAIN!! fidgetcamp.com
Last night at @southpkcommons I demoed a new live multimodal experience for TMA - it’s like an educational YouTube video but interactive - it can hear you, see your camera/screen, and even morph into interactive visuals as needed Try it yourself at: chat.tma.live
with @zan2434's TMA, anyone can truly learn anything. just ask.
last night, we hosted a demo night @southpkcommons on all things "fun." stoked to share what @zan2434, @faionur, @elizalian, and many more are exploring on the frontier of joy: