{"id":1549,"date":"2024-07-27T06:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T06:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2024-07-27T06:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T06:25:38","slug":"report-colin-kaepernick-is-starting-another-new-business-as-he-continues-to-be-blackballed-by-the-nfl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Colin Kaepernick Is Starting Another New Business As He Continues To Be Blackballed By The NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Colin Kaepernick (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for The Gordon Parks Foundation)<\/em><br \/>\nFormer\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Colin Kaepernick\u00a0has started another new business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-inread\"><\/div>\n<p>While Kaepernick still has designs on one day returning to the\u00a0NFL, he is keeping busy with various other ventures. As such, he launched a new artificial intelligence company on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u2019s Andrew Beaton is reporting that the former QB has created an AI startup backed by venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, which is run by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.<\/p>\n<p>The platform, Lumi Story AI, was built with storytelling in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Kap wants to provide the tools for the development of stories, helping people with nothing more than an idea to flesh out full-fledged tales.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt allows us to help fill in the skill gaps of creators,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Kap said.<em>\u00a0\u201cWe are now building in that direction to try to open that up and democratize storytelling.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ll handle all the logistics behind the scenes,\u201d <\/em>he added.<em>\u00a0\u201cOne of the things that we\u2019ve found is that creators love creating, and they want to focus on creating. Most of them do not want to be business operators.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-colin-kaepernick-doesn-t-view-ai-as-something-designed-to-steal-jobs-from-humans\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colin Kaepernick Doesn\u2019t View AI As Something Designed To Steal Jobs From Humans<\/h2>\n<p>According to Beaton, Colin Kaepernick decided to pursue this after encountering obstacles while trying to launch media companies.<\/p>\n<p>A beta version of Lumi focused on comics launched this Wednesday, and plans to expand the platform\u2019s capabilities are in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The former football player turned civil rights activist also addressed concerns over artificial intelligence putting humans out of work.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe look at it as AI should be empowering and enhancing creators,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>The 36-year-old started a publishing company in 2019 and has written children\u2019s books, including \u201cI Color Myself Different.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"idlastshow2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-post-after\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Kaepernick (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for The Gordon Parks Foundation) Former\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Colin Kaepernick\u00a0has started another new business. &nbsp; While Kaepernick still has designs on one day returning &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}