Building the Metaverse with Jon Radoff

Perplexity allows you to ask questions and receive answers supported by citations from online sources: Wikipedia-meets-AI. I spoke with Aravind Srinivas, founder and CEO of Perplexity.ai, the company behind it. They use a combination of GPT, good UI/UX and a lot of behind the-scenes magic to equip you with an artificia

Ali El Rhermoul and Jon Radoff's team at the a16z Tech Week AI/Virtual Worlds Hackathon won grand prize: it's a multiplayer online game featuring a persistent world, generative AI for storytelling (Anthropic Claude) and immersive environments (Blockade Labs, Scenario) and a client/server architecture using Beamable + U

I spoke with Adam B. Levine, cofounder of Blockade Labs, the company responsible for the generative skybox AI that can create 3D skyboxes from text prompts or sketches. One of the best applications of this technology is created environments for use in game engines like Unity and Unreal. We explored some demos of what t

Voice Synthesis is about to transform game development, virtual worlds and simulations of all kinds. I spoke with Zach Johnson, cofounder of LMNT, an AI voice synthesis company that uses the magic of prosody imitation to make voices that sound strikingly like the original speaker. We covered how these technologies work

One of the fastest growing areas of creative expression in games has been the emotes and animations you can apply to your character in games like Fortnite. Yassine Tahi saw this realm of self-expression coming, and created a platform that democratizes the creation of character animations. With Kinetix, individual creat

Lovelace Studios is building Nyric, a world-generation platform that starts with a text prompt and brings entire worlds to life. I spoke with Kayla Comalli (co-founder and CEO) about how they're doing this. This is a great episode for anyone who is interested in learning how you can combine generative AI technologies l