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Announcement: The More Life Experiment I hate going to the doctor for routine stuff because it’s very high friction. I got told about NiaHealth recently, used it myself, and it’s basically how preventative healthcare should be in this country, no brainer Sign up online, build your health profile, someone comes to your house to take your blood (baller), and then you see the results and insights a few days later Here’s the experiment: 1. Sign up your parents for NiaHealth 2. It’ll cost $250 with this promo code they gave me THANKYOUTECH50 3. After your mom or dad get their blood results back, DM me the receipt or some proof and I will pay you back for the whole thing Why? More Life

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Announcing LiveKit Agents 1.0 and a $45M Series B Back when we launched ChatGPT Voice Mode with OpenAI, voice AI was not a thing. Now it's a whole ecosystem of companies, products, and tools. LiveKit’s infra for building and running voice AI agents is also at scale: over 100K developers use LiveKit Cloud and collectively doing over 3 billion calls a year in production. Today we're announcing Agents 1.0: 🧠 Multi-agent orchestration engine 🌍 New turn detection model (13 langs, <25ms CPU inference) 📞 Robust telephony stack (used by 25% of 911 dispatch and more) 🧱 Cloud Agents deployment platform for running agents at the edge We’ve also raised a $45M Series B led by Altimeter to continue building towards an all-in-one platform for AI agents that can see, hear, and speak. ⌨️🖱️ 👉 📹🎤

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Today we’re launching our first homegrown AI model: an open source turn detection model for building voice agents. Instead of relying solely on voice activity detection (VAD), which only considers when a user is speaking, our model also considers what has and is being said in the context of a conversation and predicts when a user is finished expressing their thoughts before the agent responds. Conversations with AI voice agents using this new model flow much more naturally without constant interruptions from the AI— check it out (more videos, details, and code in the thread):

Kevin Yien (@kevinyien) is a PM I've admired from afar for a long time, so I was thrilled to have finally gotten him on the podcast. Kevin leads product for merchant experiences at @Stripe, previously built the restaurants business and ecosystem team at @Square, and was head of product and design at @Mutinycorp. He also makes great ice cream, was a competitive eater, and teaches for fun. In our conversation, Kevin shares: 🔸 Why great PMs need to be great writers, and how to become a better writer 🔸 Tactics for automating user insights 🔸 Kevin's "unsell email" hiring technique 🔸 Why you need to keep a decision log 🔸 Insights on AI and its impact on our lives 🔸 Why aspiring PMs should start in engineering, design, or sales 🔸 Lessons from failure 🔸 Much more Listen now 👇 - YouTube: youtu.be/xOTO98MXG9o - Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2la… - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

The best designers I’ve worked with are “full stack.” And I’m starting to believe this is where the entire design profession is going. If you're in the top 10%, specializing in your craft will still be highly valuable. But I'm also seeing more designers broaden their skillset to keep up with a changing profession. As companies shrink due to layoffs and efficiency targets, designers are asked to do more with less. Furthermore, AI is enabling designers and non-designers to be more productive than ever before. AI might lower the bar for getting started, but the ceiling for excellence in design is only getting higher. Great designers aren’t going away: they are becoming more important. That’s why today, Maven is launching the “Future of Design” collection, specifically focused on helping designers become more cross-functional. Explore the new Future of Design collection: bit.ly/maven-future-of-desig…. 💫 Some highlights: - UI Engineering 101 for Designers with @PixelJanitor and @mrncst - Become an AI Product Designer with @maheen_sohail - Startup Design Leadership Accelerator with @kevinyien - Brand Identity Design: from Strategy to Creative with @hoodzpahdesign - Next-Level Web Design with @bentenwoodring - Interactive Animation with Rive with @jeffamcavoy - Build Your Personal Brand as a Designer with @UltraLinx Which skill do you think will be most important for designers to learn in the next 5 years?

The ultimate guide to moving between a GM model, a functional model, or something in between. Including: 🔸 How your company stage, business model, and talent will inform your org structure 🔸 Pros and cons of each model 🔸 A guide for thinking through tradeoffs 🔸 Much more Written by @rohinip and @marygliu, who've witnessed first-hand how reorgs transformed the way six different top-tier companies operate, including @Square, @Shopify, @Dropbox, @Meta, @Google, and @Mercury. Read it here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/gener…

Today we’re announcing LiveKit’s $22.5M Series A to build the transport layer for AI. This wasn’t an easy fundraise. Late last year, we pitched investors that realtime voice and video would become THE way we interact with computers. A few didn’t agree; most said it was at least 5 years away. The GPT4o demo changed everything. It’s now obvious that as computers become smarter, the way we interact with them becomes more natural and humanlike. We use our eyes and ears to communicate. Computers use cameras and microphones. If an AI model is the “brain”, LiveKit is building the nervous system — the network carrying signals to and from the brain. Honored to have amazing investors like @jaminball, @patrickachase, @JeffDean, @eladgil, @AravSrinivas, @rauchg, @amasad, @OfficialLoganK, @bernhardsson, @mckaywrigley, @matiii, @demi_guo_, @_arohan_, @mattshumer_, @pirroh, and more on this journey with us. If you’re excited about working on the future of how we use computers, DM me!

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