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LiveKit CEO: Hallucination is a feature in voice AI interfaces
“Well, you know, it's one of those things that I think is funny, like, people talk about hallucinations as this bad thing but in a lot of ways for, like, kind of this speech-to-speech interaction model where you're talking to an AI, Hallucination is a feature.”
LiveKit's d'Sa: LiveKit built the infrastructure for OpenAI's ChatGPT voice modes
“Fast forward, like, about a year and a half, two years, and, ah, we built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended up finding it, ah, wanted …”
Russ d'Sa: LiveKit closes Series B funding round led by Altimeter Capital
“And so we closed a series B today. That's led by Altimeter Capital.”
D'Sa: LiveKit partnered with OpenAI to build ChatGPT voice mode
“We built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended up finding it, ah, wanted to build a voice interface to ChatGPT, And we started to work pre…”
LiveKit closes $45M Series B led by Altimeter Capital
“And so we closed a series B today. That's led by Altimeter Capital.”
d'Sa: Modern live sports broadcasting is not true real-time synchronization
“And so the technology that we use for live broadcasts of sports games is not true real time technology. Not everyone is synchronized in the same way that in 1969 when the, you know, the lunar landing everybody saw that at the same time because there's a server…”
D'Sa: 75-80% of LiveKit cloud signups are building voice AI agents
“We're doing like thousands and thousands, many, several thousands of like signups to the cloud product or commercial product. And most of those, the vast majority are startups and growing companies. And out of those, probably around 75% or so, 80% of those sig…”
D'Sa: LiveKit partners with Cerebras and Groq for hardware inference
“Well, so we, like, I mean, we partner with, like, folks like Cerebris and Drock. And so we allow you to kind of plug in their models and plug in effectively their hardware accelerated inference. And so we're compatible with that world.”