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Congrats to the Cartesia team on announcing their seed (Karan Goel Albert Gu Brandon Yang Jacqueline Wibowo). And thanks for having me for the ride as an investor! I first met Karan Goel and Albert Gu back at Stanford University, where we were computer science PhD students together advised by Chris Re. An incredible team building the future of SSMs. Let's go!
We've raised $27M from Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Factory, Conviction, SV Angel, General Catalyst, A*, Databricks and our wonderful angels. Cartesia Sonic is the fastest ultra-realistic voice model, and our audio models now power the next generation of voice agents, digital media, and assistants across startups and large enterprises. Our mission is to build real-time intelligence with long memory, that runs wherever you are. Multimodal brains for everyone! Read more (and a sneak peak on our new multi-stream SSM architecture): https://lnkd.in/gajBx9rT.