Oct 05, 2026

The Transcript Looked Fine. The Call Wasn't. — Debugging Voice Agents, Arize

Fuad Ali from Arize AI explains why voice agents are uniquely challenging to debug, as critical issues like latency, interruptions, and tone are invisible in text logs. He presents a solution combining unified audio, transcript, and trace views with OpenInference semantic conventions and audio-native evaluations. The talk culminates in a vision for self-healing voice agents through automated observation, evaluation, and improvement cycles, demonstrating how to achieve robust, continuously improving AI voice systems.

Sep 29, 2026

What Would Make an AI Assistant Worth Paying For?

This discussion with David Pawlan of Assistant Bench unpacks the explosive growth of personal AI agents, exploring their capabilities, current landscape, and future implications. Topics include diverse agent use cases from daily admin to finance, the evolution of human-agent interfaces (voice, hardware), the critical role of proactivity and trust, the emergence of silent multiplayer agents, and the transformative impact on commerce. The conversation also delves into agent-to-agent interactions, economic models, and the profound shift towards a consumer-aligned internet.

May 13, 2026

Build Hour: GPT-Realtime-2

Explore GPT-Realtime-2, OpenAI's advanced voice AI model, through practical demos and a deep dive with Sierra on building production-grade, low-latency voice agents with complex reasoning and tool use.

May 09, 2026

Voice AI: when is the "Her" moment? — Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI

Neil Zeghidour, CEO of Gradium AI, deconstructs the gap between current voice AI and the "Her" ideal. He argues that while cascaded systems are practical, they are architecturally flawed for natural conversation. The future lies in full-duplex, speech-to-speech models that not only solve latency but also integrate deep paralinguistic understanding and overcome significant cost barriers.

Mar 05, 2026

This Startup Built the Infrastructure Powering Voice AI

In a YC Founder Fireside chat, AssemblyAI founder Dylan Fox discusses his journey from a solo founder in 2017 to leading a major voice AI infrastructure platform. He covers the early challenges, the technological shifts that fueled growth, the development of intelligent, promptable voice models, and the lessons learned in scaling a deep-tech company.

Feb 18, 2026

Simple AI Upsells 30% Better Than Trained Reps

Founders of Simple AI, Catheryn Li & Zach Kamran, discuss their journey from building consumer apps to creating an AI sales agent that handles inbound calls for major brands. They cover their pivot, the technical challenges of integrating with legacy systems, and how their AI outperforms human reps by leveraging hyper-personalization and rapid A/B testing.