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The End of Language-Only Models l Amit Jain, Luma AI

2025/5/13
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High Agency: The Podcast for AI Builders

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This week Raza is joined by Amit Jain, CEO and co-founder of Luma AI, to explore why the future of artificial intelligence lies beyond language. Amit shares Luma’s bold mission to build world models through multimodal training and why video is the most overlooked and critical data source in AI today.

Chapters:00:00 - Introduction03:40 - Competing with Big AI Labs: Language vs. Multimodality08:09 - Joint Training and Why Current Multimodal Models Fall Short11:01 - Language is Discrete, the World is Continuous14:36 - Do These Models Have World Models?18:18 - Planning, Counterfactuals, and Causal Reasoning in AI22:08 - Capabilities of Ray 2 and Real-World Use Cases26:14 - Rethinking Video Length and Creative Workflows29:18 - Solving Coherence Across Shots and Characters30:00 - When Will AI Create a Feature-Length Film?31:27 - What You Can Build with Luma’s API Today35:49 - Overlooked Ideas and Noise in the AI Industry38:34 - Why Video is the Missing Link in AI