Episode 15: Sora 2 Took Over AI Video + Our New Parking Data Tool
This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler debut Tix LAX, a new platform that visualizes parking tickets across Los Angeles using city APIs, from officer leaderboards to the surprising car colors that rarely get ticketed. Then, they dive into Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest video model that lets you insert yourself directly into AI-generated clips, whether skydiving, cooking sushi, or working on an oil rig. In the AI news rundown: OpenAI reaches a staggering $500 billion valuation, Apple shifts focus from Vision Pro to AI glasses, and a new startup builds AI-powered defense technology to shoot down drones.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro – welcome + topics for this week
(1:20) What We Built: Tix LAX – LA parking tickets mapped with city data
(2:40) Inspiration from San Francisco’s viral parking ticket tracker
(4:00) Officer leaderboards + biggest ticket writers
(5:15) Ticket patterns by car color, violation type & neighborhood
(6:10) Data quirks: future-dated tickets + 2-day delay
(10:18) Tool of the Week: Sora 2 – OpenAI’s new video model + live demo
(19:32) AI News #1: OpenAI reaches $500B valuation
(21:54) AI News #2: Apple pivots from Vision Pro to AI glasses
(24:07) AI News #3: Startup building AI-powered defense robots to shoot down drones
(25:41) Closing thoughts – AI momentum driving markets into fall
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