Finn Meeks

The last 5 years have been dominated by LLMs. amit makes a compelling case for visual intelligence dominating the next 5. We discussed the journey from South Park Commons, to Luma, to world models (what does this even mean!?). Enjoy! (00:00) Apple's LiDAR work seeded Luma's founding vision (05:05) - A free app was secretly a data collection operation (06:49) H100s made video generation stop feeling impossible (10:00) Most definitions of "world model" are simply wrong (14:37) Why unified models beat pure video scaling (20:03) Luma Agents and the end-to-end creative production loop (23:00) The knowledge gap no model can close alone (29:34) Blowing James Cameron's mind in five minutes (31:16) Why consumer video generation failed—and who it's actually for (35:23) - Product and research aren't independent things at a foundation lab