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20:55ENJesse 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.
15:12ENTwelve 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.
1:23:53ENCreators 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.
1:37:50ENGranola 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.
23:39ZH → EnglishLi Mu: Adding Ten Million Hours of Speech to a Text LLM, Open-Sourcing Higgs Audio李沐 · Boson AILi Mu explains how the team added a huge amount of speech data to text LLM training, built an AudioLLM that can listen and speak, and open-sourced Higgs Audio. He covers architecture trade-offs, token compression, where the data came from, and how to run it on a 3090.
1:05:11ENThe 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.
56:10ENDeepL 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.
1:45:11ENAI 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.
1:22:43ENFive billion minutes of calls: why Dialpad trained its own business LLMHost Nathan LabenzDan O’Connell on real-time speech, verticalizing the stack, and why he and Nathan Labenz disagree about when AI employees show up.
1:17:20ENHume wants well-being in the objective function, measured 53 emotions at a timeHost Nathan LabenzAlan Cowen tells Nathan Labenz how Hume AI reads face, voice, and language, sells custom models at $1.66 an hour, and wants long-horizon well-being to override every other AI goal.
1:20:55ENA Custom Voice Used to Cost $10,000. Ten Minutes of Audio Now Clones It.Host Nathan LabenzPlay.ht CEO Mahmoud Felfel tells Nathan Labenz how text-to-speech jumped from robotic cloud APIs to director-level voice generation — and why the company is racing to put brakes on abuse.
1:09:31ENThe Staircase to an AI Tutor: Connor Wick on Speak, Moats, and Voice-First LearningHost Jacob EffronHow Speak's CEO is building a fluency product one model-capability step at a time, from specialized speech models to evals, pricing, and the future of education.
1:09:00ENThe Meeting Is the Moat: Fireflies.ai’s Path to 16 Million UsersHost Jacob EffronKrish Ramani explains how Fireflies.ai turned AI note-taking into a meeting chief of staff, why he avoids fine-tuning, and how a startup competes with Microsoft, Zoom, and Google.
45:46ENGiving AI a Nervous System: Voice, Touch, and the Post-Keyboard InterfaceHost Jacob EffronLiveKit's Russ explains how voice AI, multimodal chat, cloud browsers, and on-device models are reshaping how humans work with machines.
51:45ENCameras Optional: HeyGen's Joshua Xu on Avatars, Orchestration and Building Ahead of the ModelsHost Jacob EffronHeyGen co-founder and CEO Joshua Xu explains how AI avatars are replacing the camera for business video, and how the company handles quality, trust and safety, and capital.
1:04:27ENPeter Deng on Why AI Pricing, Evals and Voice Are Still MisunderstoodHost Jacob EffronA product leader's guide to pricing AI around work, making evals the spec, and why voice and proactive agents are underrated








