The Orwellian doctrines of 'Freedom of speech, not freedom of reach,' 'flood the zone with shit,' 'manufacture consent,' 'pay-for-play' and 'controlled opposition' are all that's left of Western media. Madness normalized. Congrats. đź‘Ź
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HONGOS - My New Open Source Autonomous AI Video Production Tool
Hongos is my new opensource AI tool that autonomously generates complete videos from a single prompt: Script, Voices, Videos, Edit. From idea to finished video production in minutes
Create ads, stories & viral content in minutes while agencies charge $200K & take 3 months. Hongos opens up an immense, fun creative canvas to play with.
Code: https://github.com/samim23/hongos/
Blog: https://samim.io/studio/work/hongos/ <- Lots of demo videos.It's usable from the command line or through its easy to use interface.
Behind the scenes, HONGOS orchestrates the latest and greatest AI models (@GoogleDeepMind 's Gemini 2.0 Flash & Veo2, Elevenlabsio Voices, LumaLabsAI 's Ray, Fal for compute) and combines it all smartly.
And you can use images to drive the story and video style. Whether it's a familiar face or a specific setting, HONGOS will incorporate it. Do share your results!
At this rate, AI will soon start its own YouTube channel and TV ad agency and make more money than us.
Just had an ad agency CEO, asking me if a 30sec clip would be possible under $1000 and within a week. Told him it's generated in 3min for $10. Last week another ad guy told me "This shouldn't be free." The middleman markup in creative work: genius business or pure scam?
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Serendipity Engineering works in mysterious ways.
Carl Jung on Friends: "An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: 'No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you."
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History's biggest scam: Making us believe we're more advanced than people who created architectural marvels that still stand 2000 years later while we worship empty white cubes
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The Kiko journey has been fascinating. Some scream, "LLMs for kids' education? Horrible!" Others believe in AI for learning but insist on overcomplicated, gamified UIs to claim a "moat" and "educational value." They all forget—LLMs are improving at breakneck speed and can replicate their entire game UX in minutes. True personalized, real-time learning is coming. And no one is truly ready.
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I started my first startup at 19 and have built three more since. Through some wins and many failures, I’ve learned just how brutally hard it is to go from 0 to 1.
But the game is changing. AI can now build, clone, and market products in days—handling the entire startup life cycle. What once took countless people can now be done by one. And this shift is only accelerating. Everyone is a coder now. No moat will survive. The traditional startup playbook is being rewritten.
So what comes next? Nobody knows but some signals are clear—these will matter more: community-building, taste-making, performance, and LARPs—all powered by swarms of AI agents running the operations.
Given this shift, what should entrepreneurs focus on right now? Open to ideas!
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Life is long and strange. You never know what time will bring. It's young xi jinping
