About this episode

Ashlee Vance and Kylie Robison discuss the Midjourney Scanner event, AI model bans, and various tech topics including DeepMind's interests and skincare routines.

Did Kylie and I attend the Midjourney Scanner event? Yes, we did . Did Kylie compare notes on her skincare routine with Bryan Johnson at the event? Also, yes. Meanwhile, I formed more wrinkles by downing cocktails while all this happened. Since the Midjourney pivot into medical devices and health spas is all the rage, we had no choice but to dive right in on this week’s episode. We also explored the government’s ban of Anthropic’s latest model, the odd tie-up between DeepMind and Eve Online, Noam Shazeer leaving Google for OpenAI, Snapchat’s Snapcrap glasses, the Rafael Nadal documentary (naturally) and a robot that kills fish in the name of better sushi. Come get it. OUR SPONSORS SendCutSend Do you make stuff? Do you need metal parts fast and believe in truth and justice? Then head on over to SendCutSend where you’ll get a 15 percent discount thanks to Core Memory on whatever you’re trying to build. We believe in you. Brex The Core Memory podcast is also sponsored by Brex , the intelligent finance platform built to help companies spend smarter and move faster. Did we go to Texas, find a telescope ranch and then obtain an entire nebula in Brex’s honor? Oh yes, we did. We run on…

People in this episode

Host: Ashlee Vance

Guest: Kylie Robison

Topics covered

• body scanners
• AI models
• DeepMind
• health technology
• sponsorships
• skincare
• robotics

Keywords

• Midjourney
• DeepMind
• AI ban
• skincare
• robot sushi
• Snapchat glasses
• Rafael Nadal

Sponsors

SendCutSend, Brex

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Midjourney, Anthropic, DeepMind, Google, OpenAI, Snapchat

Products: Snapcrap glasses

Books & works: Rafael Nadal documentary

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