Cartesia
>$400M
Known only as a lower bound
Real-time voice built on state space models rather than transformers, out of the Stanford lab that invented them; the Sonic text-to-speech, Ink speech-to-text and Line agent stack, tuned for sub-100ms latency.
- Founded
- 2023
- Research area
- Generative media & voice — Academic spinout, Agents, Voice
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
Founders
- Arjun Desai — previously Apple, Stanford
- Karan Goel — previously Stanford
- Albert Gu — previously Stanford
- Chris Ré — previously Stanford, U. Washington
- Brandon Yang — previously Snorkel AI, Stanford, Google