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AI Engineer· Oct 26, 2026Jesse Hall: Build Voice Agents for Conversations, Not LeaderboardsJesse Hall · LiveKitLiveKit’s Jesse Hall explains how to evaluate voice agents as real-time systems: understand callers, handle interruptions, keep talking while tools run, and measure the delay people actually hear.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 5, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCliff Weitzman on Owning GPUs, Voice AI and Building SpeechifyGuest Cliff Weitzman · Host Harry StebbingsSpeechify's CEO makes the case for owning part of a compute fleet, reflects on a missed business-software opportunity and discusses AI-assisted teams.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 31, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersNetic's Agents Answer the Phone When the Heat BreaksHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Melisa Tokmak tells Elad Gil how a two-year-old platform became the AI operations layer for HVAC, roofing, pet care, and other essential services.
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Matthew Berman· Jun 24, 2026Twelve Open-Source AI Projects for Agents, Video, Coding and VoiceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys tools ranging from long-running agent frameworks to document OCR, skill security and local speech generation.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 6, 2026PodcastCreators Cheer Filler-Word Removal and Boo Generative VideoHost Nathan LabenzDescript CEO Laura Burkhauser maps the same customers' three-speed reaction to AI: deterministic buttons they love, an agentic co-editor they want but scold, and generative video they actively hate.
1:37:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 8, 2026PodcastGranola Added More Customers Than Almost Anyone by Being Surprisingly UnambitiousHost Nathan LabenzCo-founder Sam Stephenson tells Nathan Labenz how a calm notes app for frazzled meeting days, one Slack-sharing loop, and a refusal to promise the burning-fire work built a $1.5 billion company.
41:38ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 11, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersElevenLabs Hit $300 Million ARR by Building Voice Before Anyone Believed It Was the InterfaceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn Poland, watching a foreign film is a special kind of pain: one narrator, every character, a flat delivery from start to finish.
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Sequoia Capital· Oct 14, 2025PodcastThe Last Mile Is Where Contact-Center AI Gets RealCresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia's Doug Leone on why 17 to 20 million agents, legacy systems, and last-mile integration will decide who wins customer experience.
1:22:04EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski on Voice AI, Growth and Building from EuropeGuest Mati Staniszewski · Host Harry StebbingsStaniszewski discusses the company’s origins in dubbing, its financing and reported ARR, and the challenges of scaling voice products.
17:51ENMatthew Berman· Aug 28, 2025AI News in August 2025: Claude for Chrome, New Models and AI InfrastructureMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a browser-agent preview, model releases, reported Apple discussions and research on inference and weather.
59:38ENSequoia Capital· Jul 1, 2025PodcastElevenLabs Was Supposed to Be RoadkillCo-founder Mati Staniszewski on dirty audio data, prosumer virality, and why voice should become the default interface for technology.
11:38ENMatthew Berman· Jun 12, 2025AI News in June 2025: Magistral, Voice Models and Image GenerationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Mistral’s reasoning models, voice and browser updates, reports on Meta and Scale AI, and FLUX.1 Kontext.
38:43ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 27, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo in Five Doctors Want Out. An On-Call Cardiologist Built the Note That Lets Them StayHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAbridge CEO Shiv Rao on treating the doctor-patient conversation as healthcare's source of truth, and why the company ran straight at the hardest health systems.
8:35ENMatthew Berman· Mar 21, 2025AI News: Vibe Jam, Mistral Small 3.1 and New Audio ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys March 2025 releases, from AI-assisted games and local models to search, audio and creative tools.
14:53ENMatthew Berman· Mar 20, 2025OpenAI’s 2025 Audio Models and Voice Agent ToolsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a launch demonstration of transcription, controllable speech synthesis and agent tracing.
1:05:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 19, 2025PodcastThe Fake Five-Second Hold: Voice AI Is Already Negotiating With TruckersHost Nathan Labenza16z partners Olivia Moore and Anish Acharya walk Nathan Labenz through what is working in voice AI — call centers, coaches, companions — and what still is not.
30:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBilt Saved 65 Support Seats. Decagon's Founder Says Most Agent Ideas Still Won't SellHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on why customer support is the golden agent use case, why instruction following beats o1-style reasoning, and the two filters that kill most agent startups.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 29, 2024PodcastDeepL Beat Google at Translation by Refusing to Be a General ModelHost Jacob EffronOnly 18 percent of the world speaks English—and a Cologne startup turned that fact into a $2 billion language-AI company.
32:07ENSequoia Capital· Oct 15, 2024PodcastA 10-Person Team, One Click, and Two Years of Fake DeadlinesNotebookLM’s product and design leads explain how a source-grounded research tool became a viral two-host podcast generator—and what they refuse to add next.
19:25ENMatthew Berman· Sep 26, 2024AI News in September 2024: Advanced Voice, Llama 3.2 and OrionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests ChatGPT voice and reviews Meta’s models and AR prototype alongside a week of AI industry announcements.
34:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Independent Teams Found the Same 10-to-1 Mix That Beats TransformersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe authors of S4 and Mamba argue that mostly state-space layers plus a dash of attention is the architecture that actually works—and they are shipping it first as real-time speech.
1:45:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 19, 2024PodcastAI already beats doctors at empathy. Catastrophe is still not the defaultHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz tells Sarah Hastings Woodhouse why he is an adoption accelerationist and a hyperscaling pauser, and lists eight reasons he will not join the hardcore doomers.
1:00ENMatthew Berman· May 31, 2024OpenAI Voice Demos: Translation and Math TutoringMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA short compilation shows a translation exchange and an assistant guiding a student through a triangle problem.
30:55ENMatthew Berman· May 17, 2024GPT-4o's Early Demos: Voice, Tutoring, Meetings and AccessibilityMatthew Berman, Greg Brockman, Sal Khan, Imran · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI's May 2024 demonstrations and considers what real-time multimodal interaction might enable.Load moreShowing 24 of 40