🎉 Excited to finally announce our $27 Million seed round led by Index Ventures ! It's been an amazing first year at Cartesia. We launched Sonic, our first audio model, less than 6 months ago to demonstrate what our pioneering State Space Model (SSM) architecture could enable for real-time AI. Since then, we've: 📈 Onboarded customers across every voice use case imaginable - from call centers to digital avatars, early-stage startups to Fortune 500s 👯 Grown our team 5x across engineering and GTM - I feel incredibly fortunate to work with such a brilliant and kind group 🚢 Shipped new releases every few weeks - Voice Changer, Localization, Finetuning, Multilingual support, and more 👊 Topped multiple blind human preference tests on voice quality In this demo, I clone my own voice with less than 10 seconds of audio and walk through a complex transcript that Sonic generates flawlessly. We’ve achieved accuracy that no Transformer-based model has ever been able to 🚀 We're also hiring for pretty much everything (link below), I hear the business team in particular is a blast 😊 !!
Cartesia runs through Jackie 😮💨
I think achieving voice quality that beats Transformer-based models in such a short time is a huge deal, especially for real-time AI. But here’s a thought, do you think the rush for innovation in this space risks overshadowing ethical considerations, like deepfake misuse?
Congratulations on an incredible milestone and the impressive progress with Sonic! With such rapid advancements in voice AI, how do you envision real-time audio models like Sonic reshaping industries beyond the obvious use cases?
Congratulations
Congrats Jacqueline🎉 So happy for you.
Wow what a seed round!
Holy seed round! Congrats!
Super cool. Congrats! 🎉
Congratulations!
Building Cartesia
2wTry our new model! play.cartesia.ai Come work with me: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cartesia More on our seed round: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/seed