With Plai Labs, Chris DeWolfe is creating a next-generation social platform and AI tools for all
By Diane Brady, Forbes Staff
G
o back through every major pivot in consumer technology over the past two decades and there’s a good chance you’ll find Chris DeWolfe launching a business to capitalize on it.
In 2003, he co-founded and led MySpace (now “Myspace”), a social network that boasted more than 75 million active monthly users in the U.S. at its peak, and was sold to News Corp. in 2005 for $580 million. With the launch of what’s now called Jam City in 2010, he became a leading player in mobile gaming. And earlier this year, he co-founded Plai Labs to leverage AI and Web3 technologies in building the next generation of social platforms—with tools like a personalized text-to-video generator called PlaiDay.
“I’ve been in the middle of all the iterations of the web,” says DeWolfe. “Basically, what we’re trying to do at Plai Labs is take all of this intense hardcore AI technology out of the research papers and put them in the hands of people and small businesses.”
“AI has not been very accessible to the masses ... It’s stuck in the tech department”
“What most people know about AI is ChatGPT,” says DeWolfe. “It was fun for a few hours but AI hasn’t been very accessible to the masses. That’s what we’re trying to do.”
“It’s stuck in the tech department and the CTO’s department. In order to really leverage AI, it has to be in the hands of the product people and with the business people.”
For more on how DeWolfe is doing that, lessons from MySpace and his thoughts on the “angst” in the entertainment community when it comes to all things AI, click on the interview above.
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