Justine Moore(@venturetwins)

Wow I asked Grok Bot to scan X for people saying mean shit about me and it was incredibly comprehens...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:34:28 GMT

Wow I asked Grok Bot to scan X for people saying mean shit about me and it was incredibly comprehensive.

I hadn’t even seen most of these! Finally we get working X search 😂

Grok Bot@bot

Grok Bot can now search, read, and monitor X.

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“It’s so great we’re not seeing AI flyers anymore”

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:37:45 GMT

“It’s so great we’re not seeing AI flyers anymore”

Neville Medhora@nevmed

This is a great example of standing out by zigging when everyone is zagging!

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Someone discovered a new Amazon AI feature that summarizes what it knows about you and I am crying o...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:22:57 GMT

Someone discovered a new Amazon AI feature that summarizes what it knows about you and I am crying of laughter

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We need more tech events with books as swag. Vibes at the @mercury bookstore were impeccable - and ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:55:16 GMT

We need more tech events with books as swag.

Vibes at the @mercury bookstore were impeccable - and you get to take one home!

Open for the next few days, check it out at 201 Jackson Street 📚

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Had a chance to test the new Tavus model that set the Internet aflame. I did not expect the avatar ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:01:41 GMT

Had a chance to test the new Tavus model that set the Internet aflame.

I did not expect the avatar to so effectively roast my job ☠️

Impressive progress in real-time interactive video - this is without any cuts or speeding up clips! Some of the mannerisms were shockingly real.

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Tavus@tavus

Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.

48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.

It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

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Are you an AI content creator or creator program manager? @a16z portfolio companies are looking to ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:12:58 GMT

Are you an AI content creator or creator program manager?

@a16z portfolio companies are looking to hire people like you!

If you make content about AI tools or are interested in managing a creator program, tell us about yourself 👇
…creator-network.justinem.chatgpt.site/joino

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This is Airbnb listing btw. You can actually rent a decommissioned nuclear missile complex (in Ark...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:49:15 GMT

This is Airbnb listing btw. 

You can actually rent a decommissioned nuclear missile complex (in Arkansas!).

Impressive how closely the generated video aligns to the property, references make a huge difference here.

airbnb.com/rooms/45816677…

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Gave Opus 5.5 an Airbnb listing and asked it to generate a UGC video. I'm impressed with the result...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:27:06 GMT

Gave Opus 5.5 an Airbnb listing and asked it to generate a UGC video.

I'm impressed with the result!

It pulled the photos and used them to generate video with Seedance 2.5. Voice is ElevenLabs, and the historical footage was downloaded from the Internet + upscaled with Topaz.

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I think people are taking this tweet a little too seriously 😂 I share interesting use cases of AI ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:50:44 GMT

I think people are taking this tweet a little too seriously 😂

I share interesting use cases of AI on this account. 

Using AI video to market your OnlyFans account in this way is objectively weird and interesting - like it or hate it.

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This is from the @a16z Top 100 AI Consumer Apps. It's @omooretweets' SEVENTH time pulling all of t...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:14:02 GMT

This is from the @a16z Top 100 AI Consumer Apps. 

It's @omooretweets' SEVENTH time pulling all of this data - and this time it also includes consumer credit card spend 👀

Well worth a read, lots of interesting things in here:
a16z.com/100-gen-ai-app…i

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I need to know wtf is going on in Montana

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:45:42 GMT

I need to know wtf is going on in Montana

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The top 1% of consumers spend $900+ per month on AI products - on their PERSONAL credit cards. We h...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:22:12 GMT

The top 1% of consumers spend $900+ per month on AI products - on their PERSONAL credit cards.

We have officially invented the "AI whale."

This cohort outspends the bottom 50% combined 🤯

Olivia Moore@omooretweets

🚨 The @a16z Consumer AI Top 100 is back - but this time, it's 150!

We added revenue data from @yipitdata to track how consumers are spending not just time, but money, on AI.

The result? A story of heavy concentration among AI's power users. Our takeaways 👇

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Gave Codex a few hours and an API key and got this incredible music video about Threads users. It ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:54:10 GMT

Gave Codex a few hours and an API key and got this incredible music video about Threads users. 

It had Astra write the lyrics, then used Fal to make the media (Suno for the song and MiniMax H3 for the video).

Some brutal lines in here, who says LLMs aren't funny? ☠️

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I'm kind of losing it at this AI-generated music video about Threads users ☠️

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:57:53 GMT

I'm kind of losing it at this AI-generated music video about Threads users ☠️

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Once in a while you stumble upon true weapons-grade autism that makes everyone else look like LARPer...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:49:12 GMT

Once in a while you stumble upon true weapons-grade autism that makes everyone else look like LARPers.

Incredible work.

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I think I stumbled on a genius OnlyFans marketing hack. This AI comedian ("Tiffany Sloane") started...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:38:15 GMT

I think I stumbled on a genius OnlyFans marketing hack.

This AI comedian ("Tiffany Sloane") started posting 3 weeks ago and is blowing up - 360k followers and millions of views.

Her bio links to what appears to be a real woman's OF profile..using her AI persona for marketing.

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We've definitely cracked multi-turn editing without image degradation 🤯 I took this old Chloe ad a...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:19:12 GMT

We've definitely cracked multi-turn editing without image degradation 🤯

I took this old Chloe ad and wanted to see if FLUX 3 could swap out everything - dresses, couch, wallpaper, makeup, logo - while maintaining the structure.

Nine turns later and no artifacts!

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Black Forest Labs@bfl_ai

Introducing FLUX 3 Image.

Control every pixel.

Make precise multi-turn edits without changing any other pixel.

Lay out the image exactly how you want using bounding boxes.

Generate in up to 4K to preserve details.

Use up to 10 references to compose an image.

Commercial Weights available for companies running image generation at scale.

Open Weights version of FLUX 3 Image is launching in the coming weeks.

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We cannot build new data centers fast enough - my cat has found his calling.

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:39:58 GMT

We cannot build new data centers fast enough - my cat has found his calling.

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Made a music video for the people constantly posting about how much they hate data centers (thanks ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:16:01 GMT

Made a music video for the people constantly posting about how much they hate data centers

(thanks to Slopcannon from @boneGPT 🫡)

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@ideogram_ai It remains insane to me that I can now build what would've previously taken an entire e...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:28:54 GMT

@ideogram_ai It remains insane to me that I can now build what would've previously taken an entire engineering team.

Here's the stack:
Interface - Opus 5.5
Photo classification - Gemini 2.5 Flash
Segmentation - SAM 3.1
Edits - Ideogram 4.5

All done with a @fal API key ☺️

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Spun up a fun interior design app to test some new models ✨ It ingests a Zillow listing, pulls pho...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:18:13 GMT

Spun up a fun interior design app to test some new models ✨ 

It ingests a Zillow listing, pulls photos of every room, and lets you change all the finishes. 

Segmentation is SAM 3.1 and edits are @ideogram_ai 4.5.

It can set up a full house for $1.50 and each edit is $0.06 🤯

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Ideogram's new image edit model is insanely good. To test it, I took this Olipop ad and asked for a...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:09:08 GMT

Ideogram's new image edit model is insanely good.

To test it, I took this Olipop ad and asked for a series of precise edits - like a creative team exploring variations or localizing content.

Incredible to see how it handles multi-turn changes without warping and artifacts 🤯

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Ideogram@ideogram_ai

Introducing Ideogram 4.5, the most precise edit model.

With each edit, leading models add artifacts, pixel shifts, and color changes. Ideogram 4.5 eliminates artifact buildup, making multi-turn editing possible.

Live in Ideogram, the API, and launch partners. Open weights soon.

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I've watched this clip five times because there are so many expressions happening while Dario is tal...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:46:58 GMT

I've watched this clip five times because there are so many expressions happening while Dario is talking.

Really incredible stuff.

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“Codex is now fully in the cloud” Idk why, my previous setup of leaving my laptop on the car floor ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:36:55 GMT

“Codex is now fully in the cloud”

Idk why, my previous setup of leaving my laptop on the car floor plugged into a power bank was working just fine

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Day in the life in Ancient Greece (made a new Codex --> Flux 3 pipeline that basically generates...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:43:44 GMT

Day in the life in Ancient Greece

(made a new Codex --> Flux 3 pipeline that basically generates these autonomously 🤭)

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Day in the life in Ancient Greece

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:08:39 GMT

Day in the life in Ancient Greece

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Going to bed these days

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:35:18 GMT

Going to bed these days

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I love ~fun- software 🫶 Lil Doodles is such a cute app to turn your camera roll into drawings. (H...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:49:24 GMT

I love ~fun- software 🫶

Lil Doodles is such a cute app to turn your camera roll into drawings.

(H/T @spenciefy)

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Huge congrats to @drfeifei, @jcjohnss, @BenMildenhall, @martin_casado, and the entire World Labs tea...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:24:26 GMT

Huge congrats to @drfeifei, @jcjohnss, @BenMildenhall, @martin_casado, and the entire World Labs team 🎉

They’ve been truly building the frontier of spatial intelligence with exceptional models.

As a bonus, it’s hard to imagine a nicer or more thoughtful group of people 🫶

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Fei-Fei Li@drfeifei

x.com/i/article/2104…

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LLMs have gotten incredibly smart. So why haven’t they automated more human tasks? @CompleteSkeptic...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:07:58 GMT

LLMs have gotten incredibly smart. So why haven’t they automated more human tasks?

@CompleteSkeptic argues we already have the intelligence we need - but current models aren't built to function as reliable components inside software.

Rewarding responses that humans like (RLHF) doesn’t necessarily lead to getting tasks done.

Love this clip from the @a16z podcast!

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Truly blown away by the results from Eleven v4. This model has a new architecture that unlocks more...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:27:17 GMT

Truly blown away by the results from Eleven v4.

This model has a new architecture that unlocks more realistic and controllable speech.

You can now direct the performance of the character AND the soundscape around them. And the voice effects (like "cheap microphone") are 👌

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ElevenLabs@ElevenLabs

Introducing Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, our fastest and most emotive voice models yet.

Ranked #1 by Artificial Analysis.

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Okay a bit deeper dive here + how to recreate: I gave it the @a16z "It's Time to Build" video as a ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:31:59 GMT

Okay a bit deeper dive here + how to recreate:

I gave it the @a16z "It's Time to Build" video as a reference and asked it to make a similar one on data centers. I told it to search and pull whatever footage it needed from the Internet.

x.com/a16z/status/20…

Afterward, I asked Claude to describe its process. Sharing here in case anyone else wants to use:

1. Research and reference

I studied a16z's "It's time to build" video: transcribed it and made frame contact sheets.

That showed the formula: roughly 100 seconds of a deep narrator in short lines, famous voices cut in between, dark teal-and-amber footage that mixes archival and cinematic shots, and a gold end card.

2. Script

The script makes one argument: a data center is a factory whose product is intelligence.
It moves in four beats:the scale of what's being built;
how it works; what the intelligence delivers (AlphaFold, productivity, "too cheap to meter"); the call to build.

Every soundbite comes from someone building or running this infrastructure: Stargate's builders, Jensen, Altman, Elon, and a DeepMind scientist.

3. Gathering material

Footage: I searched YouTube with yt-dlp and pulled about 50 clips: archival film, Bloomberg's Stargate documentary, Colossus walkthroughs, DeepMind's AlphaFold videos, and the keynotes and interviews.

Logging: subagents went through the footage in parallel and logged about 170 usable shots, with timestamps, descriptions, quality ratings, and problems like burned-in text or logos.

Transcripts: every clip was transcribed with ElevenLabs Scribe for word-level timestamps.

4. Building the pieces

Soundbites: cut exactly on word boundaries, sometimes splicing out an "uh"; each one re-transcribed to confirm it still reads as a clean sentence; run through voice isolation to strip the music and room noise baked into the sources.

Speakers on camera: a face-detection pass confirmed each one opens on their face. Crops keep news tickers and logos out, and where I spliced audio, I switched to a tighter punch-in so it reads as a cut rather than a jump. Where possible I tracked down higher-bitrate copies of the same clip.

Narrator: a custom deep trailer voice designed with ElevenLabs Voice Design, raised 2 semitones. I regenerated any line that transcribed wrong ("ships" instead of "chips").

Music: I profiled six film-score tracks by tempo and how they build, and picked Oppenheimer's "Can You Hear the Music." Its dead stop is positioned to land right after the final soundbite.

End card: rendered in Python (gold Didot with Avenir underneath), plus two ElevenLabs sound effects.

5. Assembly

Build script: every picture cut is tied to a specific word or soundbite, so cuts stay locked to speech when timings change.

Compositor: it grades each segment, joins them, blurs logos, ducks the music under voices, and normalizes loudness to -14 LUFS with a limiter.

6. Checks before every delivery, then revisions

Before sending any version, I checked it for: stray flash frames and drifting cuts, by comparing detected scene changes against planned cut times; frame contact sheets of every shot; loudness and peak levels;
how far each voice sits above the music, measured against a music-only stem.

Tools used: ffmpeg, yt-dlp, ElevenLabs (transcription, voice design, text-to-speech, voice isolation, sound effects), Rubber Band for pitch, OpenCV for faces, and parallel subagents for footage logging.

a16z@a16z

It's time to build.

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Asked Opus 5.5 for a video on data centers. The result is beyond what I could've imagined 🤯 Insan...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:21:29 GMT

Asked Opus 5.5 for a video on data centers.

The result is beyond what I could've imagined 🤯

Insane what models can do with a reference video and permission to pull or generate any footage they want.

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“Polyamorous ethics as AI governance”

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:29:30 GMT

“Polyamorous ethics as AI governance”

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Some Very Important people were extremely upset about this take a few weeks ago. They were confiden...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:57:33 GMT

Some Very Important people were extremely upset about this take a few weeks ago.

They were confident that Dario’s messaging was well-received.

I feel vindicated 🤭

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Justine Moore@venturetwins

Shockingly the PR strategy of "CEO making billions from AI now says it may kill you" isn't going over well with the American public.

Regardless of what you think about whether we need to slow down - this messaging is pretty rough.

(top IG comments on the Dario interview)

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@fal Whoa this blew up 🤯 Finn appreciates all the love and photos of other people’s cats. He is c...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:50:11 GMT

@fal Whoa this blew up 🤯

Finn appreciates all the love and photos of other people’s cats.

He is currently learning how to exist in a harness so he can come outside (for brief periods of time)

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@bot https://t.co/SFucDSrs6I

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:42:36 GMT

@botx.ai/bot/Oq7SLPCXbR…

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Made a Grok @bot with the prompt so you can easily generate an Apple-style ad for your own pet. I t...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:42:04 GMT

Made a Grok @bot with the prompt so you can easily generate an Apple-style ad for your own pet.

I tested it with my labradoodle, Tilly - you just need a few photos and a couple of their hobbies or personality traits.

Link to use it yourself 👇

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Justine Moore@venturetwins

Marketing my cat like a new Apple product

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This took me <1 hour to make! I gave Astra some reference videos, a few pictures of Finn, and a...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:50:14 GMT

This took me <1 hour to make! 

I gave Astra some reference videos, a few pictures of Finn, and a description of his personality traits.

It generated its own images and then sent to Seedance 2.5 for the video (I gave it a @fal API key).

Here's the shot board 👇

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Marketing my cat like a new Apple product

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:39:36 GMT

Marketing my cat like a new Apple product

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So many incredible parts of the Slutcon discourse. My favorite may be the framing of "we're just h...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:44:59 GMT

So many incredible parts of the Slutcon discourse. 

My favorite may be the framing of "we're just helping shy men learn how to flirt 🥺👉👈"

Meanwhile, the actual agenda:

Jakeup@myhandle

the purpose of SlutCon is to help men who are scared of women to start liking women, by putting them in proximity to women who like men and aren't scared of men

I'm not attending or involved in any way, but this is very aligned to my own mission and I'm rooting for their success

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It’s so sad that kids are using ChatGPT to summarize books instead of reading things the old fashion...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:34:33 GMT

It’s so sad that kids are using ChatGPT to summarize books instead of reading things the old fashioned way (SparkNotes)

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Agents using Blender will have a massive impact on media production. I asked Astra to make a scene ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:14:05 GMT

Agents using Blender will have a massive impact on media production.

I asked Astra to make a scene where people stand in a field watching a UFO - and iterated on exact timing + camera angles.

Then I sent it to @fal's new 3D to video model and got this photoreal clip 🤯

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fal@fal

3D to Video is now live on H3 Max, the fastest video model on the market and ranked #1 for video editing.

Upload a Blender previs up to 15 seconds, and H3 Max turns it into photoreal video while preserving camera movement and shot timing.

Add reference images to carry specific characters and environments into the final shot.

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Muse seeing these memes

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:59:37 GMT

Muse seeing these memes

Alexandr Wang@alexandr_wang

weird this is the graphic that the partnerships team told me we were going with

@Box 🤝 @Muse

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Packed house at the @fal GenMedia Conference! Incredible group of founders, studio heads, and crea...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:44:26 GMT

Packed house at the @fal GenMedia Conference! 

Incredible group of founders, studio heads, and creatives who are here to talk about real use cases of AI in media.

Also some awesome hands-on demos, like a generative photo booth 👀

fal@fal

Today, GenMedia Conference 2026 begins. 

500 builders, creators and leaders shaping what comes next in generative media, all under one roof.

Our CEO and co-founder @burkaygur kicks things off in a few minutes.

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Okay I think I've cracked the code on these. Seedance 2.5 is very good if you upload a reference vi...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:07:43 GMT

Okay I think I've cracked the code on these.

Seedance 2.5 is very good if you upload a reference video + images of new characters and ask to swap.

In some cases the ref video will get rejected - so I just ask Codex to blur the faces and resubmit 😂

It's also best doing two characters at a time. For this one I did Dario and Jensen first and then re-ran it with Sam. Prompt below.

Edit the entire source video @ Video1.

Replace the viewer's FAR RIGHT performer with the man in @ Image1 in the same pink shirt and blue / gray hoodie. Keep the LEFT and MIDDLE performers the same.

The photos provide identity and wardrobe only.
The video provides motion, expressions, gestures, timing, interactions, camera cuts, framing, lighting and background. 

Preserve the original performance as faithfully as possible. Do not swap positions or invent new movement or scene elements.

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Justine Moore@venturetwins

Day 1 of recreating every episode of The Office but AI

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Zuck is a N=1 talent when it comes to buying consumer teams & products. IG and WhatsApp are le...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:04:52 GMT

Zuck is a N=1 talent when it comes to buying consumer teams & products. 

IG and WhatsApp are legendary acquisitions, and Muse is off to a very strong start (under Alexandr & Nat).

Will likely cross 1M DAU in the first three weeks and has been #1 in the App Store for 7 days.

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I’m crying of laughter - please let this be the model that solved Navier-Stokes (this guy’s name is...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:26:52 GMT

I’m crying of laughter - please let this be the model that solved Navier-Stokes

(this guy’s name is hayZee, we need to get him on here!)

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Exceptional essay from a legend in the entertainment industry. I loved this story about how Disney ...

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:29:39 GMT

Exceptional essay from a legend in the entertainment industry.

I loved this story about how Disney Animation moved from pure hand-drawn animation to CGI and what that unlocked.

"Technology didn't diminish the craft, it expanded the canvas. It gave artists more room to create."

JK@jeffreykWNDR

The World is Changing: AI For Creativity

By Jeffrey Katzenberg

A few months ago, I sat in my office in Silicon Valley and watched as a tech founder showed me something extraordinary. On the screen was a fully realized, beautifully lit, well-composed animated scene. It was stunning and it made me feel exactly what I felt in 1986 watching Luxo Jr. That was the first time I watched a computer-animated 3D character take a breath and seem, against all reason, to have life. It left me in awe.

Later that day, I received a text from an artist I've known for thirty years, 350 miles to the south, in the city where I spent most of my career. After seeing a similar video, she texted: "Is this the end of us?" My answer was, "Certainly not.”

I have spent the better part of the last decade in Silicon Valley, but the heart of my career has been in Hollywood. Being deeply connected to both worlds means I have deep loyalties to each and a responsibility to speak honestly to both.

In 2023, I said that these new AI tools would cut the time and cost of producing world-class animation by as much as ninety percent within three years. Some colleagues were alarmed, many were furious.

There is growing fear and resistance surrounding AI within the creative community. I deeply understand it, because I've spent countless hours walking through animation studios watching gifted artists bent over their desks, rebuilding a single second of film for the tenth time because the ninth version wasn't quite right. I've sat in screening rooms where four years of people's labor played out in minutes, and I knew the name of every person that had spent countless hours bringing those images to life. The creative process is a calling, there's really no other way to describe it. From the outside some see resistance. From the inside, it is love.

People do not fight this hard for things they don't care about. The pushback coming out of Hollywood represents the collective effort of people who are deeply passionate about their craft.

Is History Repeating Itself?

The history here is more complicated than either side may realize. In 1906, the most famous composer in America, John Philip Sousa, published an essay titled “The Menace of Mechanical Music." He warned that the phonograph would become "a substitute for human skill, intelligence and soul."

Sousa's fight was not really about the machine, it was about money. The machines were playing his compositions, and the men who built them weren't paying him a cent. His campaign helped create the Copyright Act of 1909. He did not stop the technology. He changed the terms under which it could use his work.
A hundred years ago, sound came to the movies. We remember it now as a miracle, and it was. What we forget is who paid for it. Before sound, tens of thousands of musicians made their living in the orchestra pits of movie houses, scoring every film live, every night, in towns all over the world. When the soundtrack arrived, the work of one composer and one orchestra was recorded for a film that went into thousands of theaters. The union fought back with everything it had, taking out newspaper ads across the country warning against the menace of "canned music," one of them showing a mechanical man tearing the strings out of a harp while an angel wept.

They were not fools, and they were not Luddites. They were right. Those pit jobs did not come back. And yet (this is the part we have to be brave enough to admit), sound gave us the movie musical, the modern score, sfx, sound design, audio engineering, and an art form vastly larger than the one it disrupted. And it helped keep Hollywood in the forefront of world entertainment for the rest of the century and into the next. The loss was real. And yet the art form expanded.

This is a story that has been told over and over again. To resist technology is to risk irrelevance. Just look at Kodak or Blockbuster. To embrace technology is to open doors of new possibility. Just consider Apple and Netflix.

What I Learned From Walt Disney

In the mid-1980s, I was tapped to lead Disney's animation division at a moment when the studio was at an inflection point. Animation wasn't just another business unit. It was the soul of the company, a medium revered because of Walt's genius and his passion. But the production system was cumbersome and unforgiving. A single movie was 125,000 individual hand-drawn and painted cels, photographed one frame at a time. Every revision carried a cost measured in months. These degrees of difficulty shaped the kinds of stories we could tell.

We found our way forward in an unexpected place: Walt himself. The Disney archives held astonishing recordings of Walt explaining his creative process. His own writings. His notes and storyboards. Work product captured at every stage of his process. This was truly a gift. Listening, reading, sitting with the work itself, we heard him talk about character, about emotion, about how an audience feels when a character truly comes alive. He talked about making bold choices and refining a scene until it genuinely moved people. We didn't hear a word about pencils or paintbrushes. In fact, Walt was famous for being a technologist, forever hunting for state-of-the-art tools, often inventing them himself to achieve the images he saw in his head. But he never defined animation by the tools. He defined it by whether the audience believed the character. His principles were timeless. The tools were not.

That realization changed everything. We co-developed the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) with a young Northern California company called Pixar, replacing hand-painted cels with CGI. In The Little Mermaid, the final scene shimmered with a dimensionality and light that the old process simply couldn't achieve. In Beauty and the Beast, the ballroom sequence moved with a cinematic sweep that placed the audience inside the emotion of the moment. In Aladdin, the Cave of Wonders felt vast and alive, and the Magic Carpet became an intricate, compelling character all its own. In The Lion King, the stampede carried a scale and intensity that raised the emotional stakes beyond anything we'd done before. Technology didn't diminish the craft, it expanded the canvas. It gave artists more room to create.

A decade later, the canvas expanded again. When Disney released Pixar's Toy Story, it wasn't simply a technical milestone. It was proof that a fully computer-animated film could carry real emotional weight, that it could make audiences laugh, cry, and believe. At DreamWorks, we made the difficult decision to sunset hand-drawn animation and become a fully computer-animated studio. It was the right thing to do, but it was not without pain. It cost talented people their place in an industry where they had worked their whole lives. Some made the leap to the new tools and did the finest work of their careers. Some never did.

Tools are never the point. The instruments change with every generation. What endures is taste and imagination. The magical ability to make an audience feel. One of the greatest storytellers of our generation, George Lucas, succinctly captured the eternal essence of this issue: “It’s not the how, it’s the why.”

A Distinction With a Difference

I asked one of the leading AI models a question that has been challenging me for months. What is the difference between reasoning and creating? Its answer changed how I think about almost everything happening in this industry. It said . . .

Reasoning and creating are two distinct cognitive modes, though they also work together. Reasoning is fundamentally evaluative and analytical. It operates on what already exists: facts, premises, evidence. It moves toward a conclusion that was in a sense already implied by the input. Reasoning is constrained by logic and truth. Its goal is to arrive somewhere correct, not to invent somewhere new.

Creating is fundamentally generative. It produces something that didn't exist before. And crucially, there's no single right answer waiting to be found. A blank page has infinite valid responses. Creation involves choices that can't be fully justified by logic alone. Taste, intuition and vision fill the gap where deduction runs out.

Reasoning is what Silicon Valley has been perfecting. Creating is what Hollywood has been practicing for more than a century. AI today operates almost entirely on the reasoning side of the line. It can deduce, evaluate, optimize, and pattern-match brilliantly. And while it can create, there is a real distinction to being creative. What it doesn’t yet have is those things that make us human: empathy, devotion, serendipity, the kind of creativity that comes from a person trying to say something only they could say. When the bot generates a piece of art, it is not trying to communicate anything. It is statistics, not soul; it is emulating things that have been done. By contrast, human creativity isn’t about repeating patterns of zeros and ones; it is about doing something new.

One day, AI may close this gap. Three years ago, the leaders building AI would have called what they are achieving today, improbable, if not impossible. Impossible is no longer improbable.

Today, the line between reasoning and creating is real. Even the leading technologists acknowledge we are not there yet. There is no scientific path to crossing this divide that anyone in the field can articulate today. Understanding that gap is where we will find common ground.

A Path Forward

In 2016, I closed one chapter in Hollywood with the sale of DreamWorks and opened another in Northern California, co-founding WndrCo. We’ve backed more than 50 founders building the next generation of technology and watched how breakthroughs in Silicon Valley emerge, first as experiments, then as platforms, and finally as infrastructure that reshapes entire industries. It's worth remembering that the last great revolution in animation also came from the north. Pixar was a Northern California company, forged not in the conventions of the Hollywood studio system, but in the technological breakthroughs of Silicon Valley. I've spent years on both sides of this bridge. For sure, I don’t have all the answers (take Quibi, for one!). But, from my past and present vantage points of my long career, here is what I see . . .

Brilliant people in Northern California building this technology have made something extraordinary. They have earned the right for the rest of us to be, if not believers, at least optimistic that what comes next will be remarkable. But they have not made an artist. The tools are powerful, but they are not what makes a story matter. That knowledge lives 350 miles to the south, inside people whose life's work has informed the very models you are building. The right path forward includes them by design, with credit, with consent, and with compensation. Build this with the storytellers. Not on top of them. Taste is not something that can be synthesized, it is uniquely human.

At the same time, Hollywood needs to accept that AI is not going away. The energy they are spending trying to make it disappear is energy they are not spending deciding the terms on which it will exist. And the terms are everything. The north needs something from it that they cannot build and cannot buy: creativity. The kind that takes a blank page and conjures a single right answer where there was none and has held audiences for a century. Without it, the most powerful reasoning engine ever invented will still be missing the only thing that makes a story worth telling.

The artists who learn to wield these new instruments will do things the engineers never dreamed of. They always have. Edison invented the motion picture but made terrible movies. It took Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton and so many others to make movies emotional. Now, the canvas is about to expand yet again. We should decide now that we intend to paint on it.

There are so many valuable lessons in history. This has happened many times before, and it was never settled by the technology. It was settled by the terms. Sousa did not stop the phonograph; he helped write the law that made sure composers got paid. And two years ago, when the writers and the actors walked out, they were fighting for the very things Sousa was fighting for in 1906. Consent, compensation, the basic recognition that human creative work has a price that must be paid. The terms of that fight are still being negotiated, but the principle is older than any of us.

The tools-versus-no-tools argument is a trap. First, we must all agree that there should be terms. Then we can have the crucial debate about what fairness requires.

What I Learned From Steve Jobs

Years ago, Steve Jobs said, "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing." He was describing a device. But he could just as easily have been describing this tale of two cities.

What I See Coming Soon

As the barriers and the costs come down, more films will get made, not fewer. Studios will get to take more risks. There will be more seats at the table, and very soon entirely new forms of storytelling. In the 1980s, animation was dismissed as a niche corner of the business. Today it is one of the most beloved and profitable forms of storytelling in the world. In live action, filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Peter Jackson embraced new visual tools not as shortcuts, but as instruments, and expanded cinema in the process. Every time storytelling has met a genuine technological shift, from synchronized sound to color to computer animation, it has redefined the boundaries of the medium and grown larger in the process.

Assuredly, I don’t have all the answers, but I am confident that the creative opportunities will expand yet again. How we come through this is a choice. The north has the new tools. The south has the creative soul. The best future will draw on the best of both worlds.