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The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs

14 Apr 2026 26 published claims 2 attributable people

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belief 12commitment 5preference 4observation 2evaluation 2prediction 1

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26 published records

02 / belief

I think people have an intuition around big LLMs where there are these very expensive training runs, and yes, they depreciate quickly, but there's so much usage that all of the models trained to date have paid off their training runs and then some.

“I think people have an intuition around big LLMs where there are these very expensive training runs, and yes, they depreciate quickly, but there's so much usage that all of the models trained to date have paid off their training runs and then some.”
Speaker
John Collison
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

04 / belief

There's the other angle of that where I think people are striving to be incredible in their craft and their work, but at the same time have fun in a lot their work.

“There's the other angle of that where I think people are striving to be incredible in their craft and their work, but at the same time have fun in a lot their work.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

05 / observation

Then you can have all the way to the marketing use cases where we are your partner for working even outside of the conversational agent space of how you create a great marketing campaign.

“Then you can have all the way to the marketing use cases where we are your partner for working even outside of the conversational agent space of how you create a great marketing campaign.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

06 / belief

Then I think over 2025, the big piece that hasn't been possible is how you connect now the real-time voice interaction with something which I think you're referring to.

“Then I think over 2025, the big piece that hasn't been possible is how you connect now the real-time voice interaction with something which I think you're referring to.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

08 / observation

We did that use case, and now we have a few different companies building their SDR versions of that, too, to help them capture the leads coming in from banks all the way to actually one of the automotive companies that leaves that where people are just more keen to speak through voice.

“We did that use case, and now we have a few different companies building their SDR versions of that, too, to help them capture the leads coming in from banks all the way to actually one of the automotive companies that leaves that where people are just more keen to speak through voice.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

13 / commitment

We will have a person in ops or in talent that will… We have effectively a tech lead for that team that helps them automate a lot of that work and helps up-level the rest of the team, too.

“We will have a person in ops or in talent that will… We have effectively a tech lead for that team that helps them automate a lot of that work and helps up-level the rest of the team, too.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

15 / belief

I think largely that technology powers a lot of their agentic interactions just became reliable at the same time as high quality over the last year, year and a half.

“I think largely that technology powers a lot of their agentic interactions just became reliable at the same time as high quality over the last year, year and a half.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

16 / commitment

The places where we know we will be able to provide the biggest value is where, ultimately, today you will have either a big portion or most of the interactions coming for voice.

“The places where we know we will be able to provide the biggest value is where, ultimately, today you will have either a big portion or most of the interactions coming for voice.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

18 / preference

Maybe you want to have a subscription with some unlimited tiers, but I don't know if you had the experience of you're using Claude, and you're typing away your queries, and eventually you hit some rate limit, and it's like, "Sorry, you've hit your usage limit," and you want to be able to do the thing that you can do with Claude Code, which is just pay per API.

“Maybe you want to have a subscription with some unlimited tiers, but I don't know if you had the experience of you're using Claude, and you're typing away your queries, and eventually you hit some rate limit, and it's like, "Sorry, you've hit your usage limit," and you want to be able to do the thing that you can do with Claude Code, which is just pay per API.”
Speaker
John Collison
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

21 / preference

If you have a lot of domain specificity, that's where I see a lot of the application companies forming over time, where that's specifically not the spaces we will go into.

“If you have a lot of domain specificity, that's where I see a lot of the application companies forming over time, where that's specifically not the spaces we will go into.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

23 / prediction

In speech-to-speech, as you think about maybe more of a companion version of the applications, that's where that will flourish because maybe the hallucinations aren't as important, but the latency is a little bit more, and maybe hallucinations are even a feature.

“In speech-to-speech, as you think about maybe more of a companion version of the applications, that's where that will flourish because maybe the hallucinations aren't as important, but the latency is a little bit more, and maybe hallucinations are even a feature.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

24 / commitment

Then there's added benefit of we work with healthcare customers where we will create a custom model for those customers where we'll get that transcription perfectly.

“Then there's added benefit of we work with healthcare customers where we will create a custom model for those customers where we'll get that transcription perfectly.”
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

25 / evaluation

It's one thing with SaaS where you get these vertical-specific providers, but I would imagine one of the biggest risks for you guys in being intermediated is if there is, like in this example, a closed captioning service that is on a two-versions-old version of ElevenLabs and hasn't upgraded. That's a problem because you want people to be using the latest and greatest model that you've developed, and you'll be deploying new capabilities every week.

“It's one thing with SaaS where you get these vertical-specific providers, but I would imagine one of the biggest risks for you guys in being intermediated is if there is, like in this example, a closed captioning service that is on a two-versions-old version of ElevenLabs and hasn't upgraded. That's a problem because you want people to be using the latest and greatest model that you've developed, and you'll be deploying new capabilities every week.”
Speaker
John Collison
Publisher
Cheeky Pint
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