This week, voice AI startup Cartesia raised a $64 million Series A at an undisclosed valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins.

Today, Cartesia CEO Karan Goel joins us to talk about the vision behind Cartesia’s voice products. Karan also spoke about the origins of Cartesia, the importance of latency, the unrealized potential of voice AI and why it will be the way that we interface with the robots of tomorrow, and how Cartesia hopes to contribute to the next big step in AI by building a AI brain that can interface more directly with the world.

Lastly, we covered Hinge Health’s upcoming IPO, Dario Amodei’s predictions about AI coding, Niantic’s sale of its game division, and cybersecurity startup Pantera’s $60 million Series D.