🎙️ EP 337: a16z Partner’s Viral AI Bama Rush Experiment & Ornith-1.5 Open-Source AI Release

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.

We’ll talk about:

• Olivia Moore generating 20 TikTok videos in 30 minutes a day to test platform detection, viewer retention, and audience acceptance of virtual creators.
• A family of models utilizing self-scaffolding loops to continuously generate tasks, construct harnesses, and refine reasoning capabilities.
• AI chip startup Etched rapidly scaling its valuation following deployment trials with Jane Street.
• Google bidding $10M in bankruptcy court to acquire anonymized corporate operating data for enterprise model training.

Keywords: a16z Janie AI, Ornith 1.5 open source, Etched $700M fundraising, Google Spirit Airlines data.

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