There's elements of it that are almost similar to early chat

jubty. Anyone who's now building a conversational voice product and have access

to that level of conversational performance. The majority of people may experience AI for the first time is actually going to be via the phone call.

We're taking the oldest and most information dense of all of our mediums of communication and finally making it

almost programmable.

Phone calls are kind of this API to the world.

Within a couple weeks of deploying their voice model they'd had 3 million users do 20 million calls.

Last week was yet another big week in technology.

For one, notebook alum, Google's latest

sensation, has been making its way across the Twitterverse with its new audio

overview feature. The feature uses end-user customizable rag, which basically means that people can create their own context window for generating surprisingly good podcasts across 35 languages.

And to add to the voice mix, Open AI held their developer day and announced their real-time

speech-to-speech API, enabling any developer to add real-time speech functionality

to their own apps.

Plus, they noted a whopping 3 million active developers on the platform.

Finally, we saw one video model company, Pika, break through the AI noise with their 1.5 model,

giving us fodder to discuss what is really required to capture

attention in 2024 and beyond.

Today we discuss all that and more with A16C consumer partners, Olivia Moore, Brian Kim, and General Partner, Anish Acharya.

This was also recorded in two segments, one with Olivia and another with all three partners.

So you'll hear us pivot between the two.

Plus, Anish actually predicted that this would be the year of voice,

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