Spotify Goes AI. People Will Be Furious. Plus, OpenAI Cracks An 80-Year Math Problem.

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The episode discusses Spotify's new AI music features and OpenAI's breakthrough in discrete geometry.

Thanks to HP & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs Spotify just made AI music official. They cut a deal with Universal Music Group for AI-enhanced and remixed tracks and we all know where this goes. This week on AI For Humans, Spotify officially crossed the line. They announced a sweeping deal with record labels, distributors, and music publishers to bring AI music tools to the platform, complete with fan-remix features that use real artist voices and tracks. They also rolled out AI-generated personal podcasts and launched Studio by Spotify, a standalone AI creation app. Gavin and Kevin break down why this changes everything for music, who actually signs up, and why the fan backlash is just beginning. Meanwhile, a Higgsfield AI feature film just premiered at Cannes for $500,000 total cost, but $400,000 of that was pure AI compute, raising big questions about what the new economics of filmmaking actually look like. Plus, an unreleased OpenAI general LLM model disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry that had stood for 80 years, the best new Google Omni prompts and practices and a humanoid robot fail that traveled the entire internet IS…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kevin Pereira, Gavin Purcell

Topics covered

• AI music
• Spotify
• OpenAI
• music industry
• filmmaking economics
• AI tools

Keywords

• AI music
• Spotify
• Universal Music Group
• OpenAI
• Higgsfield AI
• Cannes
• AI tools
• music industry
• filmmaking

Sponsors

HP, Intel

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spotify, Universal Music Group, OpenAI

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