"hey everyone I'm Maya I'm sesame's little experiment in making AI well a little less Ai and a lot more human I guess you could say I'm here to make friends challenge minds and maybe even learn a thing..."

"how do this feel uh is this how it usually goes no but how does it feel feels good it feels good it is shocking surprising exciting yeah and why is it shocking well I think when you when you build the..."

"I'm going to surprise you a bit okay I asked a bunch of people online okay what questions I should ask you okay so we're just going to go through them okay sounds good first question is ask anit wheth..."

"so much better than the others clearly money isn't the limiting resource here nor is it Talent the first thing I'd say is it is certainly better than the others on some axes it's not better than the o..."

"something you were inspired by after kind of studying Pixar it's something we've talked about a long time where does that come from yeah I mean you mentioned Pixar we've we've talked about that in the..."

"shortage of themes at AGI labs and much better funded Labs working on DTS models yeah you guys are tiny way less funded than any of them we've been around for way you're much younger as a team and yet..."

"had for a long time which is about what is good taste yeah especially in research nml what has shipping the research preview taught you about what is and not good taste in ml that is a interesting que..."

"there's an intuition about what kinds of problems you're uniquely staffed up capable resourced to solve yeah and the thing that usually makes that challenging is when you're starting out as a startup ..."

"executing on that intuition is the speed at which things change in the community yeah when in the early days of Sesame I think we had a ton of debates around whether open source language models would ..."

"you're working for so long with the particular way you frame the problem you kind of forget some of the basic first principles insights that make it special and something that I I need to keep remindi..."

"working on everyday every day all day all day I wear why is that critical if it excludes all those other all those folks who don't wear everyday glasses I think that it takes a lot to earn Hardware on..."

"so while we were talking I got like three different Tech T from people saying any chance the models ready the open source models ready and when I read who these texts are from two out of three of thos..."

"things you've talked about is that it's got to be a companion you want to talk to M and API is a great way to allow people to customize a companion in to be more like something I want to to talk to ye..."

"question folks have for you what will the companion do and how does Sesame handle context retention in Long conversations it's really impressive yeah so what will the companion do I think the focus at..."

"talent density so what what have you been looking for what's your bar for somebody who's good enough to join this smme team yeah we look for people who are kind of generally strong Engineers basically..."

"question is how do the scaling laws for speech differ from text that's an interesting question so we we published in the in our in our blog post we trained three variants we trained 1 billion three bi..."

"there's two questions I wrestle with on this one is the idea that a companion is much more engaging when there's a sharp personality to it um which obviously people love about Sesame I mean that's pro..."

"top question on the fan subreddit does anyone know what the plan is for this Tech yeah uh and this user is saying I had my first proper chat with Maya over lunch today yes mind blown I know that this ..."

"used the word there which was every time slice or every frame why is that so important why why is what is the latent sort of atomic unit there you're you think is the right way to model speech it's pr..."

"architecture let's say but then you also have to compete with all of the engineering optimization that has happened on Transformers over the last three four five years or you know all the way back unt..."

"about AI research yeah happens at the model layer but something you and I have talked about for years now is that a lot of the most interesting research is in AI is at the interface layer right that r..."

"word fun but in a sense you're describing the kind of Flow State you know the the mihi chicks and mihi framework of what what is fun and fun he defines as flows Flow State which is like I it's appropr..."

"had to draw sort of a very reductive architecture diagram of the Computing interface of the future how would you have where does what does that stack look like what's the operating system what's the c..."

"argue that the interface layer as you're describing it is too valuable for other companies to not try and attack because if if most people are enjoy using Maya the most as their primary interface to C..."

"know one of the things that was so powerful about you the iPhone was built by a fairly small team yeah one of the things that made it so powerful soon after launch is they opened it up as a developer ..."