Cartesia co-founder Karan Goel reacts to Elad Gil discussing Apple's on-device 3-billion-parameter models, evaluating current small-model capability limitations.
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Goel: AI models generating real-time data will replace traditional graphics engines
“In the future, like you will be essentially replacing, you know, graphics and rendering with essentially models that are outputting streams of data. In real time.”
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Goel: Current AI speech models fail to capture profession-specific vocal nuances
“And that's sort of the nuance that I don't think any models really capture well, which is like, you know, if you're a nurse, you need to talk in a different way than if you're a lawyer, or if you're a judge, or if you're a venture capitalist, you know, very di…”
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Goel: Cartesia intends to train an on-device multimodal model
“Yes. But, you know, we have our own sort of set of techniques that we're developing in order to be able to do that effectively. I think that I will maybe leave for another podcast. But I think, yeah, I think that is the intention at the end of the day is build…”
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Goel: Cartesia's Sonic TTS engine reduces typical voice latency by 150ms
“Even with what we've done with Sonic, we're already kind of shaving off, like, a 150 milliseconds off of you know, what they typically use.”
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Goel: Cartesia aims to cut another 600ms of voice latency this year
“And so, you know, the roadmap is let's, let's get to the next 600 milliseconds and try to shape those off in the, over the course of the year.”
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Goel: Cartesia aims to build edge-oriented infrastructure for SSMs
“I think in general for what we're trying to build is, is sort of the infrastructure to be able to train these models, make them run fast, and then bring them closer and closer to kind of be, you know, very edge oriented rather than cloud oriented.”