Hundred Year Podcast - This European AI startup is challenging Silicon Valley using free software and social media virality

This European AI startup is challenging Silicon Valley using free software and social media virality

09/10/24 • 64 min

This episode brings us to the often-overlooked tech startup region of Western Europe, where Letz.ai founder Misch Strotz is building an AI social network that puts the power of creating AI models in the hands of mainstream users. Bootstrapped from Luxembourg, Misch and his team have leveraged AI open source tools to create a commercial business that has already gone viral for its ability to perfectly put people, animals, and products in nearly any generative AI image composition. This is the AI product that could change advertising forever.

Adario Strange also gets Misch to address the potential innovation hurdles of the EU’s new AI Act, what it looks like to compete with Silicon Valley from the richest Western European country most people have never heard of, and what surprises 2024 has already delivered to the AI space.

Guest website: Letz.ai
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