AI Minds #060 | Casey Traina, CO-Founder & CTO at Overlap AI

28/03/2025 15 min Episodio 60
AI Minds #060 | Casey Traina, CO-Founder & CTO at Overlap AI

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Casey Traina, CO-Founder & CTO at Overlap AI. Overlap AI is building AI agents that can search, edit, and understand video content for media companies, podcasters , and creators. Their first agent transforms video marketing and can transform long videos into short form content, ready for distribution, and in your specific style. They were part of Y Combinator in Summer 24 and closed their seed round in November of 2024.Episode Hightlights:– Casey shares how he left Stanford after being inspired by a talk from Sam Altman, choosing to jump into the AI startup world rather than wait four years to graduate.– Initially, Overlap AI aimed to create a "TikTok for podcasts," but after podcasters kept asking for clips, they realized the real demand was for automated short-form video creation.– Overlap AI tracks the performance of posts, learns from their success, and continuously improves future clips to maximize engagement and virality.– Casey explains why video is still an unsolved challenge in AI, noting that even leading models struggle to grasp context and meaning in video content.– Overlap AI's roadmap includes enhancing production quality to match senior-level video editors, incorporating adaptive subtitles, color grading, and more advanced visual effects.-------------------------------------------Connect with Casey Traina:https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseytraina/https://x.com/caseytrainahttps://overlap.aihttps://www.linkedin.com/company/joinoverlap/https://x.com/Overlap_AIConnect with Demetrios:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/Connect with Deepgram:https://deepgram.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgramhttps://twitter.com/deepgramaihttps://www.facebook.com/deepgram/Join the Deepgram Discord Server!https://discord.com/invite/xWRaCDBtW4