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In 2017, Dylan Fox joined @ycombinator's first-ever AI batch. The perk: $100K in GPU credits.
His bet: voice was terrible, but it would get good—and when it did, developers would build everything on it.
This week with @MollySOShea on @sourceryy, he showed the receipts 🧵
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- The Sync API is here. Synchronous speech-to-text, built for the moment right after someone stops speaking, with text back in as few as ~134ms. Speech-to-text now comes in three speeds:
- We mispronounced every single item on the menu. Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime got all of them right anyway. 👇 Check out @martschweiger tutorial where he spun up a restaurant ordering agent on @livekit to put our latest model to the test. He ordered escargots à la bourguignonne,
- Our team can't stop talking about the World Cup—so @martschweiger pointed our newest model, Universal-3.5 Pro, at a bilingual Cristiano Ronaldo interview to see how it handles the parts most models fumble. He switches between Portuguese and English mid-sentence. Universal-3.5

