In Episode 20 of Creative Flux, Pierson (@piersonmarks) and Bilal (@deepwhitman) dive into an AI artist landing a $3M record deal, LTX V2 pumping out 20-second 4K videos for pennies, and the viral Halloween videos that broke the internet (Lonely Frankenstein & Nike/Chainsaw Massacre). They also dive into how Stripe's betting big on stable coins and what the future of internet transactions could look like.

Chapters
[02:34] LTX V2: The Game-Changing Video Model

[08:46] AI Workflows & Creative Pipelines

[14:55] Viral Halloween Videos & Storytelling Power

[18:53] AI Music Revolution & Artist Rights

[24:44] Stable Coins & The Future of Payments

After a week hiatus due to the first ever Generative Media Conference hosted by FAL, Pierson (@piersonmarks) and Bilal (@deepwhitman) are back! For episode 19 of Creative Flux, we discuss Adobe's rising role in the AI creator space, the future of short form AI creators, teleoperated robots, Google, and more.

Chapters

[00:00] OpenAI's IPO and Market Dynamics
[05:53] Generative Media Conference Insights
[12:00] The Rise of AI in Media Production
[18:00] The Creator Economy and Future Trends
[23:26] The Age of Creators and New Opportunities
[26:12] The Challenge of Articulating Ideas
[30:52] Structured Prompts and Image Generation
[33:05] The Impact of AI on Employment and Economy
[37:41] Encouraging Entrepreneurship in a Changing Landscape
[41:13] The Role of Robotics and Automation in Daily Life

In Episode 18 of Creative Flux, Bilal (@deepwhitman) and Pierson (@piersonmarks) sit down to discuss Veo 3.1 and how to best leverage tools, workflows, and models to create amazing artwork & videos.

In episode 17 of Creative Flux, Bilal (@deepwhitman) and Pierson (@piersonmarks) discuss SF Tech Week, including an event with ElevenLabs,  OpenAI Dev Day, and other developments in generative AI, particularly focusing on Sora 2, autonomous vehicles, and Figma. 

Let's talk video. OpenAI released Sora 2 and an iPhone-only ~AI Slop Feed~, oops I mean.. AI Video Feed. Anyways, it's pretty cool. And Pierson (@piersonmarks) and Bilal (@deepwhitman) dig into OpenAI's video ambitions, how it plays into achieving AGI, and some technical talk about Sora 2 and it's capabilities. Come join the generative media crew for episode 16!

Pierson Marks (@piersonmarks) and Bilal Tahir (@deepwhitman) discuss the opportunity of the HTTP 402 Payment Required response code and it's applications in both agentic, chat, and web usecases. Bilal showcases a basic implementation via Nicklejokes, a site where a user can pay a nickle for a joke, with all payment handled via 402 and crypto wallets. We also talk about AI music and the release of Suno v5.

Show Notes

• Suno V5: https://suno.com/
• x402 Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform/products/x402
• Protecting MCP Servers with x402 Demo: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-x402-mcp-open-protocol-payments-for-mcp-tools 

Chapters
[0:00] Introduction to Creative Flux
[1:24] Suno V5 and the future of AI-generated music
[9:20] Coinbase's revival of the x402 payment protocol
[15:00] 402 HTTP status code
[18:46] x402 Demo (Nickle Joke)
[27:32] The future of agent-to-agent transactions with crypto payments

Join Pierson Marks (@piersonmarks) and Bilal Tahir (@deepwhitman) for Episode 14 of Creative Flux, covering Dr. Fei-Fei Li's World Labs model release going viral, breaking down the distribution of ChatGPT use-cases, discussing novel image upscaling techniques, and a new reasoning paradigm in video models.

Show Notes: 

• OpenAI ChatGPT Use Cases (Figure 9): https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f142e/economic-research-chatgpt-usage-paper.pdf
• World Labs Demo: https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/1967986124963692715
• Ray 3 Reasoning Video Model: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1968704713731235972
• Recraft Vectorize: https://replicate.com/recraft-ai 
• Lucy Edit: https://fal.ai/models/decart/lucy-edit/dev 

Pierson Marks (@piersonmarks) and Bilal Tahir (@deepwhitman) explore ByteDance's new image model, Seedream 4.0, and programmatic image generation with Satori, touching on AI, creativity, and video editing. Following a tangent, they touch on LLMs, universal translators, and alien communication, and then finish with a discussion about the Nano Banana Infinimap and the potential for the rise of AI art NFTs. 

00:00 Programmatic Image Editing (Satori) vs Diffusion-based Approaches

12:50 The Future of Communication and AI

18:41 Reflections on Humanity and The Evolution of Intelligence

24:11 The Dark Forest Theory

27:07 NanoBanana Infinimap

32:42 The Future of NFTs and Digital Ownership

Show Notes

• https://github.com/seezatnap/nano-banana-infinimap

In Episode 12 of Creative Flux, Pierson and Bilal dive into recent acquisitions and Apple's dilemma in the AI space, Hunyuan's Voyager World Model, and decentralized gaming.

Links:
Voyager World Model: https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/1962741518797836708
OpenPipe: https://openpipe.ai/?refresh=1757095557405

Pierson Marks (@piersonmarks) and Bilal Tahir (@deepwhitman) dig into Google's newest image model, formerly known as "Nano Banana", the underrated technique of using LLMs to generate SVGs, AI industry gossip, and actionable creative workflow tools.

00:00 Advancements in Generative AI and Image Editing

04:02 Achieving Consistency in AI-Generated Media

08:39 Exploring New Tools

17:30 The Future of AI in Media and Communication

27:07 AI Industry Gossip
34:00 Satori MCP

Links: 

• Nano Banana (Google Gemini Flash 2.5 Image Preview): https://blog.google/intl/en-mena/product-updates/explore-get-answers/nano-banana-image-editing-in-gemini-just-got-a-major-upgrade/
• Flipbook Generator: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/micro/flip-book
• Satori MCP Server Repo: https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/satori-mcp-server