Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345

All right, everybody, welcome back to This Week in Startups. I'm your host, Jason Caleganis, with me. Today. very lucky to have Devin Thomas with us. Now, Devin, you and I met because you came to launch festival, just like a little event I do for founders. That's the origin story here. Tell us how we met.

And then we'll we'll talk about what you're building. Yeah, yeah. So when I first came up with the idea, I was kinda researching some pre seed uh funds and I followed you on X already. And I think you tweeted actually, you were like, Oh, I'm excited about uh what I'm gonna be doing for this project of mine, found a university and And I just was like, Okay, this sounds like you're excited about it. So let let me see if I can sign up and be a part of it. And you know, I just reached out and then soon as I kinda like engaged with you all, then um Yeah, they were like, Oh, we have something up coming up called Launchfest if you're interested is doing that as well. And uh so yeah, and then you were there. It was cool, it was a great experience. This week in Startups is brought to you by Odu, the all in one business platform. Your first app is free. Get started today at ODOO.com slash twist, Northwest Registered Agent. Got a new business idea? Northwest Registered Agent helps you bring it to life. Get a free domain, email, phone number, and more with no purchase required. Learn more at Northwest Registered Agent.com slash twist domain. Every For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes, or other back office administration needs, visit every.io. Amazing. Yes. And this is like one of my key tenants is say yes. So I I always tell my team like just like if you meet a founder, just say yes to meeting, just

Say yes to having launch festival, letting a bunch of founders come together. You never know what can come out of it. And uh you've got this great starter uh obliteration. Maybe you could explain what you're building, why it's important. started obliteration like at the end of last year. I was actually uh I built like a home cluster, GPU cluster and actually I originally started kind of serving the site from my home cluster at home, but Uh, what what makes it important is there's a whole bunch of uh professionals and companies out there that are essentially underserved or unserved by the frontier labs because whether they're in cyber or they're doing biology research or they need synthetic data or defense, uh all these use cases that essentially uh the Frontier Labs are essentially shunning.

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