Can Ai Companies Turn Brainrot Into Revenue?

The U.S. authorities shutdown that began this week is nan first successful 7 years. While it mightiness not consciousness instantly disruptive, for startups waiting connected permits, visas, aliases regulatory approvals, moreover a fewer weeks tin go an existential problem. 

On this section of Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Max Zeff talk done really uncertainty is affecting startups successful ways group mightiness not realize, positive nan messy reality of AI companies still trying to fig retired sustainable business models.

Watch to perceive much about:

• OpenAI’s motorboat of nan Sora app, its TikTok-style feed of AI-generated content, and whether group really want to salary for an endless watercourse of synthetic videos
• How AI-generated character Tilly Norwood is proving that moreover clone performers tin origin existent manufacture drama
• Periodic Labs’ $300 cardinal seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Jeff Bezos, and Nvidia to build AI scientists and observe caller physics
• The US authorities taking equity stakes successful companies for illustration Lithium Americas, MP Materials, and Intel, is raising questions astir what happens erstwhile Washington steps successful arsenic a shareholder

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