The Verge’s Hayden Field and I chat about how AI researcher became the most lucrative tech job of all time.
The AI talent wars are intense! Here’s Windsurf’s second hire describing the way Google came in and reverse acquihired the core AI research team. He didn’t take the deal and is now at another AI coding startup called Cognition, which acquired the rest of Windsurf that Google didn’t want.
Captions CEO Gaurav Misra on his company’s alarming deepfake report and what to watch out for as the tech advances.
If you’re interested in a high-level overview of the state of deepfakes, I recommend checking out this blog post from Captions, a Capcut competitor and a software platform that enables creators to generate AI-generated videos from scratch.
What struck me the most is the company’s prediction that, “Very soon, most models will allow you to generate a person (real or synthetic) in any situation – without a duration constraint (longer than 12 seconds) and featuring multiple people in one shot.” Chat, are we cooked?
I’ll have Captions CEO Gaurav Misra on Decoder later this week to talk about this.
Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity’s new Comet web browser, the AI talent frenzy, and a future IPO.
