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Co-founder @argildotai (YC S24) - The video generation engine for the creator economy - Techno optimist from 🇫🇷
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Zuck just reacted to the release of Grok, and he is not really impressed.
"314 billion parameter is too much. You need to have a bunch of H100, and I already buy them all" 🤣
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Deepfakes are becoming indistinguishable from reality 🤯
This video is the clone version of Lex Fridman cloned with Argil AI model.
Everyone should tell their family that a video can no longer be trusted.
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We’re finally making it to
@ycombinator
this summer after 5 years, 2 rejections, and way too many pivots
We were fully aware of the odds when we applied to Y Combinator.
Yet, this time we were part of the 1%.
This wouldn’t have been possible if we had not hard pivoted and
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The French mafia of
#AI
is growing year by year 🇫🇷🥖🐓
Here is a quick list :
- The father of deep learning (
@ylecun
)
- The founders of
@huggingface
(
@ClementDelangue
@julien_c
) the best platform for deploying AI models.
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Deep fakes are becoming more and more realistic; we are entering a world indistinguishable from reality.
This version of Marc Andreessen has been entirely cloned with our technology (The Argil deepfake model)
Proof by image is dead.
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The
@ycombinator
batch starts in less than one week, moving from France to San Francisco soon.
My program for the next 3 months :
- Coding 12h / day
- Workout 45mn / day
- YC office hours and great dinners
Perfection 🔥
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Apparently some people are not believing the video is AI generated. Barack has a message for you 👇
You’re not gonna believe this.
it’s all AI. and you can leverage this in your marketing too.
imagine what we will be able to do 1 year from now
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Zuck just re-reacted to the release of Grok 2, and he is not again really impressed.
"I don't understand why i'm getting sexy girl all the time."
"Plus, we made sure it doesn’t require you to mortgage your house for a bunch of H100s." 🤣
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For those who is taking this 1st degree, it’s a joke and this is generated with AI to mimic his reaction of the Vision Pro :)
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I just finished the first day of the
@ycombinator
retreat. The level of startup founders is just so unique, from healthcare, robotics, and cancer curing to ai system; it’s incredible to see startups like that at their beginning. Some will be iconic and will be worth billions of
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The best experience of web highlighting/writing with GPT3 from
@OpenAI
w/davinci-003
1 : hl with CMD+Shift+S
2 : gen an auto ai summary from your highlights
3 : tag it in s
4 : create page with a simple t&subt and type +++
5 : embed your tldr
#ai
#gpt3
#openai
@snipetsdotai
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Never give up!
We applied 3 times to
@ycombinator
and did a hard pivot in October, burning our Argil v1 product with 70k users but no clear ICP and founder-market fit, it was rude and painful but it was the good thing to do.
Our new play combines three important things:
- It's
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Being e/acc in France especially in Linkedin = get insults , to be treated as weak.
I’m still thinking how the European mindset get fucked by decline. This is crazy.
It explains a lot of things.
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- 11 of 14 creators of LlAmA released by
@MetaAI
come from Polytechnique & Normal Sup
- CEO at Photoroom (
@matthieurouif
)
- A lot of great AI gems build by
@gabhubert
&
@spolu
() ,
@gladia_io
(by
@JiliJeanlouis
) or
@Galileo_AI
Exciting to see that!
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I just finished the
@ycombinator
retreat, which was pretty amazing! Thanks to all the organizers and partners for this amazing event!
I want to give a special mention to Erlich Bachman, who's building Aviato 2.0 👀 I saw a sneak peek; it's amazing!
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After months of deep and silent work.
I’m happy to show the results of our SOTA deepfake model.
From inspiration from the best papers researched on the topic, we invented a new innovative architecture, and we reached an exciting level of face reconstruction.
You can see it
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Our apartment is finally fully furnished, the team is super pumped and they will try hard with these incredible setup! 🤓
@ycombinator
will be awesome!
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The humility level of YC founders is crazy. I met some folks making 1.5M ARR in 6 months with two founders fully bootstrapped without any form of arrogance. It’s a place where your confidence is boosted to see big and, at the same time, aligns you to a level of humility that
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To anyone interested to build a AI search engine with
@OpenAI
and
@pinecone
I made a POC in 4 hours night coding today. Was really enjoyable and the final result is pretty accurate even with a small dataset.
The complete thread 👇👨🏻💻 :
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I stacked 13K users on the
@argildotai
waiting list, got accepted to
@ycombinator
How did we do it? What is our secret sauce?
In October, we pivoted the current version of Argil AI (the first one was a completely different product)
Instead of rushing to build an app wrapping
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Having his product listed on the Y Combinator website is a life achievement!
"The video generation engine for the creator economy"
So proud! :)
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Last night I dev a
#ChatGPT
plugin for
@argildotai
:
I generated a picture of myself in minutes with a prompt (using a template) on my custom models.
Mind-blowing, check by yourself 🤯
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I lived for 1 year in San Francisco and spent the rest of my life in France.
We idealize Silicon Valley for talent and big tech, but the European mindset needs something more critical.
By the way, I need to break my mind and return to this mindset; we are the sum of the people
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Some of our users generate thousands of videos per month and get millions of views using their Argil AI Clone
@ycombinator
founders are starting to using it to promote their apps 👀
Here's a full tutorial (final result end of the thread) on how to do it 👇
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In this room, some companies will change the face of the world!
Last night at the
@ycombinator
retreat, realizing how lucky I am to be with the smartest and most ambitious world builders.
The energy is crazy good!
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@tibo_maker
Until LLM has 95% rate success we won’t have good agent.
When you chain 95% of success, it goes fast to 50 failure rate.
That’s the biggest reason why from my point of view.
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The
@ycombinator
effect is crazy 3 posts, one on X / Linkedin / Reddit.
- 200k views (X / Linkedin)
- 1k+ likes (X / Linkedin / Reddit)
- Top 1 subreddit YC
- +500 followers on X
- Hundred of new leads on the
@argildotai
waiting list 😍
Now, like
@paulg
, let's loop daily with
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The
@ycombinator
HQ detect your arrival automatically, all world offices should implement this great feature!
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For folks who will receive an interview for the
@ycombinator
fall batch.
Few advices:
- Be synthetic on your answers; max 15s 20s is a good rule
- Don't use bullshit keywords.
- Be authentic on your journey
- Make interview mocks with ex-YC founders if you know some
- Don't
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If you are a beginner that want to build app and don’t know how to code I truly convinced that LLM generating code and learn how to interact with code base through tools like Claude is deeply more efficient that learning no code tools like bubble.
LLM + pure code = is the new «
OMG!! look at the web app I created in just one Claude thread, writing zero lines of code using the template
@anshnanda_
and I made.
FRONT END
DATABASE
STORAGE
AUTHENTICATION (SIGN IN PAGE)
CREATED CANVAS
ADD IMAGES
ADD TEXT
NAVBAR
ADD VIDEO EMBEDS
SAVE BOARD
HOME FEED FOR
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@AlexAndBooks_
Elon at Lex fridman podcast. Always impressive how Elon is close to engineering and relevant when he explains engineering problems at Tesla and Space X regarding AI / Rocket propulsion etc …
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Building startup MVP with
@prisma
+ gRPC endpoints on TypeScript ecosystem is really game-changing for productivity 👏 to the Prisma Team!
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One month and a half ago, we made the
@ycombinator
interview.
It was intense and straight to the point no place for bullshit.
The call started with
@garrytan
and
@aaron_epstein
, and the exercise was a bit different from every interview I have had in my life.
It's a 10-minute
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I saw three big waves.
First was the microprocessor.
The Second was the web.
Third is now with AI.
It’s real!
@paulg
at
@ycombinator
event
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"This is the deepfake version of Zuck! Some people say my AI version is less robotic than the real me, but I'm not ok with that!"
The deepfake version says the original is less robotic than the original one.
This is "meta" 🤣
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@cain151714
Yes, but you are biased because you know it’s a fake. We made some test with random people and 95% people don’t see the deepfake on multiple test case we made.
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From SF to SF!
This is
@joinstationf
, the biggest world startup campus (1k startups)!
Tomorrow, I'm realizing a dream: to make
@ycombinator
in San Francisco!
We are moving with some of the
@argildotai
team. The adventure will be epic!
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The second week of the
@ycombinator
batch is almost finished.
What did we achieve?
- Onboarded our first users, and the MRR is growing
- Awesome feedback on the product and a lot of feature requests
- Shipped "licensed actors" on the platform
Next challenge :
- Max focus
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I spent 1 year in SF in 2012. When I came back to France in 2013, I was looking for startups with real engineering problems and a global growth mindset. Companies could be counted on the fingers of one hand, and the ecosystem was impoverished of capital, mindset, examples of
Has any founder ever had as much impact on their tech ecosystem as Xavier Niel in France?
He’s behind:
* Station F - Europe’s biggest startup campus
* 42 - complete reinvention of CS education
* Kima Ventures (most prolific seed VC), NewWave, other funds
* now this:
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@Clara_Gold
1 : do an April fool about your product reaching 1st app store place
2 : become viral
3 : people search the app, install it
4 : the April Fool is not a one anymore
mastermind
@Clara_Gold
🤣
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@TopherBR
@ylecun
@huggingface
@ClementDelangue
@julien_c
Yes, it's still hard to have global ambition and not go to the US after a specific scale step. Especially for attracting Talent, % of top players of the valley, the mindset, is still an unfair advantage.
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Time-Travel Thought Experiment
I hopped in a Delorean and imagined a chat between Steve Jobs and
@lexfridman
about
@OpenAI
's recent drama with
@sama
.
What futuristic insights might emerge from this dialogue?
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@paulg
Not a myth. On my side, Github Copilot + ChatGPT (gpt4) completely changed my working velocity. The approach is always different, and it's always magic. Dev not using AI will be completed late in a couple of months, and the gap will be more and more visible.
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I’m living in France.
Here, being a techno-optimist is marginal.
When you say, « I am optimistic about humanity's capability to solve all problems ( climate, extreme poverty ) not by degrowth but by science and entrepreneurship. »
You are seen as a crazy guy who wants to kill
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Today is a big day for me 🙌 I want to share a thread about my new project
@argildotai
Stealthily building the foundations for months, it’s time to return to
#buildinpublic
Argil is an AI platform where you can teach your use-case to AI.
What do we do,
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"Build something people want" is the famous mantra of
@ycombinator
!
What's the best way to bring value during YC? Make the life of a product builder easier!
With this workflow with
@argildotai
I split the time of video production by 10.
Making cool demo videos of your product
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Tomorrow, we are starting the
@ycombinator
batch.
We are building the video creator engine for the creator economy with one primitive "AI Clone."
We built a foundational deep fake model from scratch and are building a stellar product on top of it.
Our status: We do some
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A lot of people ask me.
“How did you succeed in building a Sota deep fake model in 5 months?” (it was the second question of the YC interview w/
@aaron_epstein
and
@garrytan
, btw :p)
Fundamentally, it’s because we didn't think with a scholar mindset but an hacker mindset.
We
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Overnight success is a myth. Don't listen to dream sellers. You won't get rich quickly, and it will be difficult!
The first week of the
@ycombinator
batch done :
Three conferences:
- One with Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) and Greg Brockman (OpenAI Co-Founder)
- Second with
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How AI can help to summarise any conversational moments youtube video of using two layer of AI (Speech to Text) + (AI summarisation with
@OpenAI
)
First : Speech to text after defining time-quotes.
Second : Generate AI summary from your time quotes.
This is like magic 😄
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AI Video Avatar doesn't have to be boring 🤓
Last night, I tried an experiment, and my mind was 🤯
Entirely AI-Generated top our model.
On Argil, you can create content like that at the speed of light.
UGC, Social Content Creation will never be the same again!
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I tested all video background removal APIs, but all were expensive, and the results were bad.
Finally, I shipped my removed background script on video.
Deployed on
@replicate
and open-sourced (repo available on the project)
My hacky script outperfom all video remove background API on the market. Build on top of sam2 (the model is awesome)
- The original video. (living room)
- The video with no background.
- The new background. (desk room)
Now I'll wrap that with AWS batch and I've my API.
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For all folks who still suffer from useless daily standup! I know the pain, and I have the antidote!
With
@argildotai
you can clone yourself and stay in bed!
Even Mark Zuckerberg now uses an AI clone for his daily meetings at Meta! I'm so bullish on Facemash 2.0!
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This is the AI version of Barack Obama teaching quantum mechanics to your kids in 1mn made with Argil AI 🤯
Imagine a world where the best actors will teach anything to anyone.
This is a new reality!
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I made a few
@ycombinator
dinners and need to raise the mindset compared to France / Europe.
France and Europe globally still have a problem with ambition and a lack of seeing this big.
Everyone is here to build a multibillion-dollar empire. Few will do it, but many will create
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Some people on the team just arrived two weeks ago; I don't know a better onboarding to arrive in a startup in the middle of a YC batch. Best way to create a crazy culture 🚀
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This is generated 🤯
The last version of our model.
4K capabilities / no more flickering :)
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Introducing AI Youtuber () - make 100X cheaper
❌ $100+/video
✅ $2/video
Use it for making a not "faceless' automated channel.
AI Avatar + AI Caption + AI Brolls 🔥
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Because it is the time to be techno-optimist!
I used the deep fake model I built to create a speaking version of
@pmarca
speaking about his wonderful manifesto!
Repurposing written content with a digital clone is awesome!
Let's raise humanity to another level!
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Our mission during the
@ycombinator
batch?
Giving access to all partners to their synthetic ai clones with
@argildotai
They will be able to produce more videos like this golden one of
@koomen
in different languages at the speed of light!
Moving to SF tomorrow 🤗
YC Group Partner Pete Koomen led his startup,
@Optimizely
(YC W10), to $100M ARR.
In this latest
@startupschool
video,
@koomen
breaks down the enterprise sales funnel and shares his tips on how a technical founder can start closing real deals for their startup.
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Just started to read system design interview from
@alexxubyte
and
@sahnlam
. A gem book for pragmatic inspiration for designing scalable systems and examples of interviews for hiring.
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Benchmarking what you built with SOTA on the market is always a good thing.
Re-creating a face is a complex science. It should combine the same lip, same expression, and teeth.
We built a new model (soon available w/api) that can respect all of that.
Check it out 👇
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Deepfakes are getting SCARY good, y'all 😱
This Zuck clone? Made it with Argil AI. Can you even tell it's fake?
Tell your fam - don't trust every video you see online anymore. For real.
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My hacky script outperfom all video remove background API on the market. Build on top of sam2 (the model is awesome)
- The original video. (living room)
- The video with no background.
- The new background. (desk room)
Now I'll wrap that with AWS batch and I've my API.
not found any good API or repo for remove background on video
let see what we can do with sam2
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The application deadline for the
@ycombinator
Fall 2024 batch is 8 days
Right now is the best way to build a startup, apply!
Our successful video application made with our deep fake video model 👇
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Last night I made my first ChatGPT plugin. My mind just exploded, discovering how cool it is to build on it.
Big congrats to
@OpenAI
team
@miramurati
@npew
@sama
! You are building a great future!
Last night I dev a
#ChatGPT
plugin for
@argildotai
:
I generated a picture of myself in minutes with a prompt (using a template) on my custom models.
Mind-blowing, check by yourself 🤯
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Introducing the last version of the Argil AI model.
This video has been entirely generated 🤯
The last version of the Argil AI model has different camera angles with dynamic transitions and subtitles.
Imagine the potential for scaling content.
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An former French Minister of Education suggested limiting weekly data usage to 3 gigabytes per person.
France has a unique decels 🤣
"Trois gigas par semaine": Najat Vallaud-Belkacem appelle à "rationner" internet
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One year ago, I made a viral tweet about the French AI mafia.
It's excellent to see the ecosystem expand!
In one year, we have a new champion,
@MistralAI
, crushing everything!
Top-notch companies like
@photoroom_app
@huggingface
are growing at the speed of light.
We did
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Currently building a homemade ( in SF ) studio to giving all
@ycombinator
founders their AI Studio Avatar in Argil AI.
The next weeks will be intense 😄
We bring a director from France specially for that.
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