EP 14 - World Models & Robotics, Codex, Google Agent Commerce Protocol, AI Creative Partner and More

In this episode of The Build, Cameron Rohn and Tom Spencer explore world models, robotics, and AI creative tooling for builders and founders. They begin by unpacking AI development and tools, examining Claude, the Illugen Generative Sampler, Suno, Udio, 11 Labs APIs, and the SUNO AI Music Model alongside the Music Analysis MCP Server to illustrate end-to-end developer workflows. The conversation then shifts to building in public strategies and developer platforms, contrasting deployment and realtime needs on Vercel and Supabase while highlighting how MCP tools enable modular experimentation and community feedback loops. They explore AI agents, memory systems, and technical architecture decisions, discussing Langsmith for agent orchestration, memory tradeoffs, and how Open Weight Model Exploration and the Spectrogram Diffusion Pipeline inform audio model prototyping. The hosts move from tools to entrepreneurship insights, evaluating business ideas such as modular robot arm attachments, a controversial robot sex machine market, and identity-gated model access as monetization vectors. Throughout, practical development tools and workflows like a Music Gen Prototyping Workflow and agent-first debugging surface as repeatable patterns. The episode closes with a forward-looking takeaway: builders should iterate publicly, architect for composability, and prioritize tooling that shrinks the loop between prototype and product to scale AI ventures.