This Startup Built the Infrastructure Powering Voice AI
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to Dylan Fox, the Founder of Assembly AI (S17), which has raised $160M to date. AssemblyAI is the voice AI infrastructure platform powering 10,000 companies, including Granola, Zoom and Delta Airlines.
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Chapters:
02:08 - What AssemblyAI actually does
05:23 - Dylan learns to code and discovers ML
07:11 - The Amazon Echo moment
09:32 - Why Dylan built voice AI infrastructure
13:02 - Building AI before anyone cared
16:50 - The 2021 inflection point
24:13 - Real-time voice agents are here
28:26 - Inside AssemblyAI’s new voice models
45:33 - Lessons from hypergrowth
52:00 - The future of voice AI