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AssemblyAI CEO Dylan Fox on 120 Million Voice Conversations a Week

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AssemblyAI CEO Dylan Fox on 120 Million Voice Conversations a Week

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Dylan Fox is the founder and CEO of AssemblyAI, the voice AI infrastructure platform behind AI notetakers, medical scribes, drive through ordering, contact centers and humanoid robots. AssemblyAI went through Y Combinator's first AI batch in 2017 and now s...

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In this episode, Dylan Fox, founder and CEO of AssemblyAI, discusses the explosive growth of voice AI, with weekly conversations up over 800% to 120 million and 2 million hours of voice processed weekly. He shares insights on the macro trends driving this inflection, the challenges of humanoid robotics, and the future of on-device models.
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Voice AI usage has grown over 800% in three years.
01:07
Voice is becoming a core part of software and hardware.
06:07
Voice is becoming a core modality for building applications.
06:39
Coding agents expand our total addressable market by 100x.
10:11
Scalability is key for high-volume voice AI use cases.
12:41
Efficiency comes from years of engineering and customer collaboration.
14:54
AI agents handle internal tasks like presentations and company info.
17:05
Sovereign AI is still early, but data privacy drives on-premise preference.
18:30
Voice will be an additional interface dimension, not a replacement.
24:37
Voice will become an expected interface across devices.
25:14
Voice AI expansion is more about cultural alignment than science.
29:30
AI could translate animal communication, but data is limited.
31:24
Data quality and mixture drive about 75% of AI model performance.
36:48
We're building the AWS for voice capabilities.
39:48
AI should not pretend to be human.

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Dylan Fox, Founder & CEO at Assembly AI
00:00
AssemblyAI's voice traffic just beat YouTube by 4x
01:06
$100K in GPU credits that started it all
03:33
Why Voice AI is inflecting right now
06:39
AssemblyAI's infrastructure-first strategy
10:11
Handling 120 million weekly calls
12:41
How AI agents are rewriting Internal Ops at AssemblyAI
14:49
The Sovereign AI problem nobody's solved for voice
17:05
Is the Keyboard and Mouse finally dying?
18:26
The problem Humanoid Robotics hasn't solved yet
22:33
The real problem behind translating languages
25:14
Can AI actually talk to animals?
29:27
The real reason Open-Source benchmarks lie to you
31:24
Building websites in chat rooms as a kid
34:20
On-Device AI models are about to change everything
36:48
The people who shaped Dylan's career
43:03

Transcript

Dylan Fox: The amount of weekly conversations that AssemblyAI handles through our APIs every week is up over 800% over the last three years. On a peak week, there'll be something like over 120 million voice conversations going through our platform, over 2 ...