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Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

TechCrunch LA

One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. Movio recently moved to Los Angeles, where Xu previously worked for six years as a Snap engineer. “We are doing what Jasper and Copy.ai

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

While Los Angeles city officials way back in 2003 asked its manufacturers and suppliers to stop using the terminology, they did not require it. When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . The latest in the battle over Prop 22 and AB 5.

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Science37: Using Technology To Enable Remote, Clinical Trials, with Belinda Tan

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Science37 (www.science37.com) It's really hard to do the study which requires you to drive weekly to a clinic, find parking, deal with traffic, and wait in a waiting room. Belinda Tan: Most of our trials are Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies. We're now starting to plan to open this to Phase 4 studies.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

We had a little success with Coffee Bar, Magic Mall, and Sony's Infinite Anarchy, and those games keep getting better and we kept learning about the framework, and added more talent to our team. A year ago, we decided to do a really big game, to elevate ourselves in the space. That's a really critical piece.

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Non-Profits Telling Stories Through Technology

Tech Zulu Event

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration). My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. I know I do.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

Both companies were in Los Angeles. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 30:30 Mike Jones is one of the five most prolific angel investors in southern California. Not bad, hey? I agree with him.