The Al Lab Founder Who Sees The Future First | Karan Goel, Founder & CEO of Cartesia
Karan is the co-founder and CEO of Cartesia, an AI model lab building the next generation of real-time voice intelligence.
In this episode, Karan explains what all goes into building an AI Lab company; from massive datasets to pre-training to post-training to inference engines, plus a heavy dose of relentless evaluation, and obsession with every layer of the stack.
We also discuss why existing AI benchmarks are not very helpful, why latency is voice AI’s biggest enemy, and why maintaining context across long conversations is one of the hardest unsolved problems.
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