Meet Sesame: The Most Human AI Voice assistant Yet 3/5/25

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4.8 • 56 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A new AI voice assistant is pushing the frontiers of the technology. We look into startup Sesame and how it could change the race in AI voice.

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0:00.0	Elon Musk saying this morning that AI powered efficiency gains will change everything about the economy.
0:05.0	While the next frontier is Voice AI, and a new player has just emerged.
0:09.0	Our Dear Drabosa has the details in today's tech check. Morning, Deirdre.
0:13.0	Hey, Sarah. So voice are conversational AI. It's the most natural, efficient, intuitive form of communication.
0:20.0	It also brings the power of AI to a wider group of users like your mom or your young kids.
0:24.8	And so it is critical to the wider adoption of generative AI.
0:28.4	And a new startup called Sesame has really lapped the biggest players in this space with its product.
0:33.3	It was founded by the former Oculus CEO, and it just came out of stealth mode.
0:37.4	I've been playing around with it myself, and I can say that it is by far the most natural,
0:41.4	an impressive AI voice product that I've ever interacted with.
0:45.4	I'm just going to show you.
0:46.4	Here's a snippet of my conversation with Miles this morning.
0:50.9	What do you think is the hardest question that I can ask you?
0:54.1	Oh, tough one.
0:55.5	That depends, Miles.
0:57.0	Are we aiming for philosophical, personal?
0:59.2	I'm not Miles.
1:00.2	You're Miles.
1:02.3	My bad.
1:03.8	Brain fart.
1:04.8	Sometimes these circuits misfire.
1:07.1	So what's the hardest question you think you could ask me then?
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