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Hello, and welcome to the Imagine AI Live podcast. I am your host for this event Share Unique. And we are here on site in New York City at the First Impact event. I have a special guest with me now. Welcome, Nicholai. Thank you very much. Veronique. Hi. So would you introduce yourself and tell the audience a little bit about what you're working on? Yeah, sure. So I'm Nikolai from Germany. I'm a physicist actually by training. I have a PhD in physics. But then kind of discovered that I wanted to build something in the real world instead of spending my days and nights and long and, and dark laser labs. And yeah, end of 2022, I started playing around with stay with diffusion and animation generation based on stable diffusion. And then one thing led to another and I found myself bidding a startup code neural frames, which is in AI music video generation platform. It's like a, it's like a digital audio workstation for video. So it's. It's an integrated production suite where people can create AI visual aids from text, audio, reactive AI visual aids. And the target group is musicians and AI artists. So people who want to create music videos can do that on on newer frames. Wow, impressive. And how did you come up with this idea? Honestly, I just, I fell in love with it. So there's one advice that that many people give to founders, don't start from the technology, always start from a problem. And I ignored that. I have played with the technology and just deeply fell in love with it. And thought, oh, this is so cool. There has to be a product that does something with this vector, this kind of AI animation generation. And then once I had the first MVP out, it was very broad. The use case was not entirely clear. And I had a lot of musicians come to the site who wanted to create music videos. And I actually made music for a long time. And musicians have this problem that they finish a song and they always need you always at the musicians. You always need visuals for every song you put out, right? For social media, for TikTok, for for Spotify. Even nowadays and it's really, really hard to create visual arts and so I kind of oriented than the platform for that use case and yeah, I just. Spoke to the users, learn from them and and and trying to bid but what they want and what was that like on the back end of building that. Yeah, that was fun. So I, I mean, I have an academic background, so I'm not a, I'm not a computer scientist or any like anything like that. Yeah. And but I was lucky because when I started building, it said to Betty had just come out. And yeah, I mean, I I kind of wrote with with church PT on one side and the code little on the other and learned a lot doing that. I really loved it, to be honest. I was in a seven week of nonstop building mode until until the first release and. Yeah. Now my responsibility shifted. It shifted a bit. We're now eight people. And so I'm more in the managerial path, which is also new and exciting. Yeah, yeah. And how have you incorporated AI into that new role? I mean. Everything is I to be honest. So the I'm using security. I don't know how many times a day as a as a coach to be honest in in startup land, how to navigate certain situations as a. Programming assistant, of course, a lot for cloud architecture decisions or something, for transcripts of of podcast episodes, summaries, press releases a lot. Yeah. Wow, like you guys. Exactly, exactly so. You obviously were educated. You went to university for what you were doing. What would you say to those that are going into university now or who are in university about implementing AI and what they should be studying? I think you learn best through doing stuff, so I would encourage everybody who's curious about something not to read books or anything, but just pick a project, bid it. I bit newer frames without any big background in computer science and it's possible. You just need to like dedicate yourself if you enjoy it and doing so you learn the most. What about those that are already in the workforce? Right, so. I mean, with church PT, it's really easy to to you can ask it anything, right? I wouldn't now write every e-mail with Jupiter or anything like that. I would still try to keep that person in touch somehow. But it's probably a good idea to to be be open minded about the two. It's out there, see what's out there, try them out. Sometimes they're not that good yet maybe and then leave them. But it's it's good to stay up to up to speed somehow because of course. With like everything is just keeps getting better. And yeah, on that note, where do you turn to stay up to speed with AI tech and the things that are coming out consistently? Podcasts are a great resource. I think I'm listening to a lot of podcasts. Twitter is great or ex or whatever. And of course events like these ones is is amazing because you you get to hear from founders directly or from business people for how they are using AI and what tools are out there Yeah, I'm really loving these events also to network with people and. And then you naturally talk about what twits everybody's using. Yeah, absolutely. So do you have any concerns or fears about the future of AI and where it could be headed? Yeah, sometimes I find myself, even though I did an AI startup, it is a bit crazy that I mean this, the development speed of all of this is is a bit crazy and everything is shifting quite a bit. Yeah. I was just looking to speaking to a musician, music producer and for instance, Jing, it's for for advertisements or something. You could totally see how they are not going to be made by musicians anymore very soon, right. Yeah. And of course, there's a lot of jobs that would be affected by that. I, I don't think that I would take over all the jobs. I don't think this is real. I, I think then there's new jobs generated. But for sure there's a big transformation happening. And even more important it is to stay vigilant and, and see what's happening out there. On the flip side of that, what are your hopes for the benefits that AI can bring? So the situation I'm in now as a startup founder and having built the MVP completely by myself, I could have never done that without AI. And it's it's everybody talks about how AI empowers all these people to do these things. And this is absolutely true. So you you become a superhuman. You have superhuman capabilities now with AI to its, I think across the board. Yeah. T transcription services, music video production service for musicians. Um, there's just so much out there that helps you do things. Companies can be much smaller now, much more efficient and, and this is just pure good, I think. Yeah, definitely. Are there any new features or projects you're working on that you could share with us? Yeah, we're working on really exciting new things. We just had a release actually a few weeks ago where, which increased rendering time four times, which was huge. And also so new frames. There's a lot of like knobs so you can play with to tweak, to tweak the output. We introduced a new knob and it's just it changes everything. It's really cool. It's a lot of fun, users love it. And yeah, we're working on new features, but good to newerframes.com and check it out in a few weeks. Awesome. Well, congratulations on your new features and continually upgrading the product that you have. Thank you very much. And I have one last question for you today. If there is someone listening that is thinking about attending an Imagine AI live event, what would you say to them about it? This is the best event out there for AI stuff. And honestly, I've been to a lot of. 6 conferences. I think this one is the best conference I've been at of all. It's really, really cool crowd of people and the organizers are awesome. There's a really good vibe. It's it's super everybody helps everybody. It's it's very friendly and it's it's a great place to learn a lot and to connect. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for sitting down to talk with me. Thank you for being here and enjoy the rest of the event today. Thank you very much.