🎙️ EP 337: a16z Partner’s Viral AI Bama Rush Experiment & Ornith-1.5 Open-Source AI Release
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An experiment conducted by Andreessen Horowitz partner Olivia Moore demonstrated how a fully AI-generated college persona named Janie generated 1M TikTok views in a week using tools like MiniMax, Grok Imagine, and ElevenLabs. Meanwhile, open-source AI lab Ornith released Ornith-1.5, a family of self-improving models ranging from 9B to 397B parameters under an MIT license, matching frontier-level coding performance on benchmark suites like Terminal-Bench.
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Olivia Moore…
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