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Taara, voice UI and AI agents

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Taara, voice UI and AI agents

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Telecoms.com Podcast

Telecoms.com Podcast

1 DAYS AGO
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The lads are delighted to welcome special guest Mahesh Krishnaswamy, CEO of wireless innovator Taara, this week. After an opening tangent comparing travel anecdotes they get into what Taara does, which is using infra-red light to transmit high capacity tel...

Highlights

A conversation with Taara CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy moves from Google X moonshots and laser-based wireless connectivity to voice interfaces, AI agents, trust, and the future of customer service.
01:07
The installation had to be monkey-proofed
08:59
Moonshots are bets on audacious ideas
15:26
Projects can take several paths out of Google X
20:19
Loon turned balloons into floating cell towers
28:38
Loon's lessons gave way to Taara
32:35
The wireless-fiber breakthrough
37:23
A beam the size of a chopstick aimed at a grain of rice
43:01
Microwave capacity eventually runs out
49:51
The future device could fit on a fingernail
1:02:15
Standards should follow real-world proof
1:10:32
Fog can kill the signal
1:14:55
The future is light
1:26:50
Meta’s Muse points toward agentic computing
1:32:13
Voice can transfer information at a much higher rate than typing
1:40:40
Automation can make work heavier
1:46:17
Agents may act without being asked
1:57:51
Customers may not know who they are talking to
2:03:11
AI should solve customer problems before they become complaints

Chapters

From monkey-proofing a tower to Google X moonshots
00:00
How Google X projects become real ventures
15:08
From Loon’s lasers to Taara’s wireless fibre
29:34
Scaling wireless fibre from towers to future networks
42:25
Environmental limits, edge AI, and explaining the technology
1:09:06
Voice interfaces and the changing shape of interaction
1:21:02
Trust, autonomy, and the uncertain promise of AI agents
1:41:49

Transcript

Mahesh Krishnaswamy: and we were puzzled, like, why is this not working? Is it the atmosphere that is causing all of these changes? I'm like, nothing has changed. It's like, pretty calm, you know, nice, sunny day. And then we sent a team out there and want...