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Karan Goel

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Karan Goel

@krandiash

founder ceo @cartesia, phd @stanfordailab, @mldcmu @iitdelhi alum

San Francisco, CA

Joined January 2010

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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Jun 15
We released Sonic-3.5 and Ink-2, the #1 streaming models for text to speech and speech to text you can use in your voice agents today. New architectures enable new frontiers for speed and quality. We're now the only provider to have #1 models for both speaking and listening.
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Sep 5, 2020
This is basically machine learning
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@Rainmaker1973
Sep 5, 2020
The story of Nigel Richards, the man from New Zealand who memorized every French word in the French scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship without speaking any French buff.ly/2rK5wi4
Karan Goel
@krandiash
Oct 28, 2025
We've raised $100M from Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA. Today we're introducing Sonic-3 - the state-of-the-art model for realtime conversation. What makes Sonic-3 great: - Breakthrough naturalness - laughter and full emotional range - Lightning fast -
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Aug 22, 2025
I grew up in Delhi The only reason to have an office in Delhi is to lobby the government, there’s no tech talent in Delhi Sus
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Oct 31, 2025
Excited to be back in 🇮🇳 for a few days I’ll be in Bangalore starting Monday to meet founders and businesses of all sizes building in voice We’re also hiring talented folks looking for their next role (in BLR)
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Nov 6, 2025
Someone needs to study the number of hours of lost productivity due to traffic in India Huge opportunity to make 0.5B people productive on the crazy hours spent sitting around
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Jun 17, 2024
got my PhD
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Mar 11, 2025
Announcing our Series A and new model updates. We're hiring!
Cartesia
@cartesia
Mar 11, 2025
We've raised a $64M Series A led by @kleinerperkins to build the platform for real-time voice AI. We'll use this funding to expand our team, and to build the next generation of models, infrastructure, and products for voice, starting with Sonic 2.0, available today. Link below
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Oct 29, 2025
Are we passing the Turing test for voice? x.com/krandiash/stat…
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Oct 28, 2025
We've raised $100M from Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA. Today we're introducing Sonic-3 - the state-of-the-art model for realtime conversation. What makes Sonic-3 great: - Breakthrough naturalness - laughter and full emotional range - Lightning fast -
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
May 12, 2025
Exciting news, we're officially building Cartesia's India team in Bangalore. We'll start with a 5 person team in-person in Bangalore, and grow from there. I've had the opportunity to spend the last quarter talking to a lot of folks from the Indian tech ecosystem to understand
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Oct 28, 2025
Replying to @krandiash
Building in realtime voice? See the difference in action 👇🏻
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Nov 10, 2025
We’re hiring!
David W. Romero
@davidwromero
Nov 10, 2025
We are hiring @cartesia! 🚀 We're building real-time multimodal models with life-long (really long!) context. We're looking for: - Large scale training infra experts (TP/CP/SP/FSDP2) - People with interest in architectures beyond pure transformers. Interested? DM me!
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Nov 3, 2025
I’m in Bangalore and want to meet folks working on ambitious problems with AI Come hang out at the @LightspeedIndia terrace this Thursday evening Registration link in the next tweet cc @ishaanpreet
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Karan Goel
@krandiash
Oct 28, 2025
Replying to @krandiash
We're giving away an 11-page guide titled: “How to clone your voice and make an agent in <10 minutes” (Like we did for Elon and Karan). It can call support to complain on your behalf, make reservations, prank your friends, etc. You also get $100 in free credits so you can play
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