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Kevin London

VP, Design at Metalab

Sara Vienna

Engineering Lead at Metalab

Andy Couch

Co-founder of Tiny w/ Chris Sparling. We own Dribbble, Letterboxd, AeroPress, and other wonderful companies. Funding science and journalism at Tiny…

Andrew Wilkinson

“We’re falling behind in AI” That’s me waking up in a sweat after seeing Joe Shmoe agency leader publishing the latest AI thought piece, hosting a roundtable or coming out with a very provocative new take on how AI is both the technology advancement of our lifetime and completely overhyped all at once. It gets to me sometimes. As much as I love seeing people engage, learn and share, it’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind when everyone seems to have become an overnight expert. That’s why for two decades now, Metalab has always taken the approach of more doing, less talking. Want to learn about something? Pick up the tools and get to building. Today, what we’ve ended up with is a lot of pretty interesting stories building products with AI. It probably started in earnest in early 2018, although I’m not sure we really knew what was starting back then. Otter.ai came to us for help conceiving a best in class intelligent audio transcription tool — something clicked in the early days of working on that product and today they’re one of Forbes Best Generative AI Workplace Productivity Tools. Ever since then, we’ve been deep in this world building. In 2021, concerned about artificial intelligence’s potential impact on the news business, Nicholas Thompson and his team at The Atlantic approached us to run a conceptual track to safely and positively leverage AI on the digital publication — a project none of us thought would see the light of day anytime soon. It’s launching in the coming months. We then worked alongside Tim Davis , Chris Lattner and the incredible team at Modular in 2022. Quite literally creating the building blocks to AI development that’s now valued at over $600M. Last year, during a pivotal moment in Midjourney 's history, we worked with David Holz to give their 20M+ users another way of using the platform aside from their longstanding Discord centered interface. And today, we’re working on a product that will launch to billions of people overnight when it goes live — but that’s a story for another day. I don’t think we’ll be writing a book or doing a big thought piece anytime soon, but what I have asked the team to do is pull together some of these stories and the nuggets of learnings we took away from them, so we can start sharing — hopefully it’s not something that keeps anyone else up at night. In the meantime, I’ll keep getting comfortable falling behind, so we can stay focused on building. #genai #design #product #ai #aidesign

Luke Des Cotes

Say hello to HiHi Studios. A new production company bringing female-focused stories to life through content, gaming, and animation. We partnered with founder, Valkyrae, one of YouTube's most watched female streamers, to design HiHi’s visual identity and website.

We’re hiring for experienced, fullstack senior developers and an Enginering Lead in our Engineering team in the EST to PST timezone. We are a fully remote global team. At Metalab , we design, build, and ship some of the world’s most beloved products. Founders at early-stage startups hire us to help build businesses from scratch. Leaders at global enterprises hire us to explore new technologies and launch new innovative products. If you have a passion for building launching high quality user experiences and products, come join our amazing talented team! Please review job postings for technical requirements and apply through our website so our talent team can reach out. Please no agencies and do not message me directly. #hiring #fullstackdeveloper #python #backend

Jona Moore

Benz did it to horses. Ford did it to manufacturing. Our partners Dan Gilbert and Proof (formerly Notarize) did it with mortgages and notarization. It’s one thing to build a service that people want to pay for. It takes a special kind of founder to fundamentally change how an industry works. Chris Lattner and Tim Davis of Modular fit the bill. Modular is a developer platform focused on improving how AI technology is developed and deployed. Even if you don’t know Chris and Tim by name, there’s a good chance you know their work. Chris led the creation of Apple’s Swift language, which fundamentally changed how every app on your iPhone was developed. Tim led the development behind much of Google’s AI infrastructure. He’d also been following Metalab since early 2013 when Slack became the conversation around every water cooler in Silicon Valley. So, he cut to the chase: “Hey Metalab. Chris Lattner and I are teaming up to completely rewrite ML infrastructure.” Consider me intrigued. This was spring 2022. Wordle was the topic of every conversation, NFTs were at their peak, and building and deploying AI was painfully complex, fragmented, slow, and expensive. The biggest companies in the world were spending millions building bespoke stacks that only served a single use case. The pair knew if AI were to reach its full potential, someone would have to solve the problem of AI infrastructure first. Who better than them? The pace Modular has been transforming how GenAI products are built today is inspiring. First, with their engine MAX. Then their language Mojo — which can achieve up to 68,000x the performance of Python. All while building a huge community of developers rallying behind their cause. Because they knew exactly what it would take to execute their vision. Getting the right funding, hiring the best talent, setting a realistic roadmap, and seeing their weaknesses as opportunities to learn from others. Which brings me to the lesson I learned while watching them build Modular: Not everyone can change an industry. Sounds obvious I know, but that thinking goes directly against the advice most founders hear when they’re starting out: “Think bigger!” “Don’t just build a thing, forever change the way it’s built.” “Become the Uber of X.” Classic advice we’ve all heard. The truth is, few people are positioned and have enough at-bats to take on true industry-changing, system-level problems. I’ve seen brilliant and driven founders who looked promising and ultimately failed because they didn’t have the experience to carry them through too big a problem space. This isn’t meant to be cynical. There’s an entire generation of AI founders who will go on to build wildly successful businesses thanks to Modular. It’s just that not everyone needs to solve the biggest foundational problems. Because not everyone can. So aim high. But unless you’re a trained astronaut, maybe don’t reach for the stars ⭐ #ai #product #design

Atlantic Labs Research and experiments from The Atlantic . Platform designed and built by us. Full case study → https://lnkd.in/gTEwa36A

The Atlantic has officially launched a piece of work Metalab helped bring to life. Let me tell you, working with a 167 year old institution like The Atlantic carries a lot of weight. To paint a picture, this publication predates: Cars Radio And Coca Cola With technology quickly reshaping reading habits and expectations, all companies, especially those that have survived for more than 150 years, have had to continue innovating and experimenting. Cue our engagement with The Atlantic ’s product and technology team, and CEO Nicholas Thompson . If you’ve followed Nick much over the past few years, you’ll know that he has a passion for technology and years of experience in the field as the former editor-in-chief of WIRED . “The Most Interesting Thing In Tech” is a great segment I follow that he publishes daily. That level of curiosity inevitably led him to consider how new technology innovations like AI could advance the business and product side of this storied publisher. Metalab’s task with The Atlantic’s product and technology team was to develop a safe space for experimentation and innovation that would draw on the latest technology, including generative AI. Knowing the publication would need to continue innovating beyond any single splashy product launch, the real challenge was finding a way to repeatedly experiment while maintaining reader trust. A main priority throughout the engagement was to always protect the craft of journalism and provide a positive example for the entire field. Nick made it clear that The Atlantic’s journalism is produced only by people. So, we began building a safe place for The Atlantic’s product and technology team to explore what AI integration in the context of a media company could be. As we built out our first experiment called Companion, the value add to readers began to take shape. The Atlantic was sitting on a treasure trove of data with a century's worth of archived stories. But who can manually search through a hundred-thousand-page database? Our solution was a bot that intelligently curates every article The Atlantic has ever written on a topic with a single prompt. We all agreed that this felt like a valuable use case for AI, but wanted to carefully test it with real readers. With that, Atlantic Labs launched today, with Companion and two other experiments from The Atlantic. I encourage you to head over to Atlantic Labs to learn more about it. For those of you interested in a lesson, here’s my takeaway: AI is a superpower ready to be unlocked for many businesses, but just because you can, doesn’t mean you should (yet). Be curious, experiment, and invite your users into the conversation by testing with them before rollout — especially if your business carries a legacy. For me, this is the most interesting thing in tech today. #product #design #ai #tech

“I don’t have to run back to the studio. I just run to Suno .” Timbaland just dropped his new single “Love Again” exclusively on Suno. Excited to see the platform empower both first time creators and award-winning artists to make music at the speed of their own ideas. Check it out ↓

Launched! Atlantic Labs Honoured to be a part of this one. Congrats to Nicholas Thompson and the rest of the product and technology team at The Atlantic .

Missed Miro ’s Canvas ‘24? We’ve got you. Here are our top 3 takeaways from the "Mastering the New Dynamics of Product Innovation" panel, featuring our CTO, Jona Moore . 1. AI as an enabler → Leveraging AI is now essential for streamlining processes to maintain speed and stay ahead of competitors. 2. Focus on the customer → There are so many tools. A deep understanding of the user is key to building a product that actually generates value and stands out among the masses. 3. Adaptability → In this new product era, those who remain flexible and open to learning will have a significant edge.

Video & image prompting is here with Suno Scenes! Make a Scene on our mobile app at suno.com/ios Whether it's a stunning landscape, a funny meme, a candid selfie, or a quick video of your daily adventures, Suno Scenes helps you create unique songs from your favorite photos and videos - all from your phone 📱 Download the app now & tag us in your content: #sunoscenes and @suno_ai_ on X and @sunomusic on IG and TikTok.

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