In this conversation, Will sits down with Paras Jain, co-founder and CEO of Genmo. They dive into the frontier of AI video generation powered by diffusion models and his unconventional path from self-driving cars to rapidly scaling a lean startup to 1 million global users generating videos from text. Jain shares technical breakthroughs, counterintuitive challenges, the future of personalized AI video content, the implications of deepfakes, and the role of open-sourcing video generation AI. 

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https://www.genmo.ai/

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00:00) Episode preview

(00:01:40) Deep dive with Paras: From self-driving cars to AI startups

(00:06:27) Exploring the evolution of large language models

(00:10:08) The genesis of Genmo: Democratizing video creation

(00:11:20) Demystifying diffusion models 

(00:19:44) The future of open source vs. closed source AI models

(00:22:47) The real costs of AI-generated video

(00:25:29) Real-time image generation and video challenges

(00:25:50) Optimizing diffusion models for efficiency

(00:27:11) Exploring use cases: From social media to e-commerce

(00:29:11) The future of video generation technology

(00:33:48) Addressing the deepfake dilemma

(00:38:42) Global reach and language support

(00:44:30) The power of a small, focused team

(00:50:31) Closing thoughts and advice for AI entrepreneurs