An AI Evening with Cartesia, Sarvam and Lightspeed
As 2025 gets started, it's a great time to think about what the year holds.
With that in mind, we have Dr. Karan Goel from Cartesia and Dr. Pratyush Kumar from Sarvam chatting with Ishaan Preet Singh from Lightspeed on what the new year may hold for AI [and well the world :)].
- 6:30 pm: Doors open
- 6:45 pm: Chat on 2025 Predictions
- 7:15 pm: QnA
- 7:30 pm: Mixer
So if you're an AI researcher, engineer or founder, please do come join us for a fun evening.
Cartesia
- Cartesia's mission is to build real-time intelligence with long memory, that runs wherever you are. Cartesia's first product is the fastest human quality TTS, and is based on pioneering research on State Space Models. Karan Goel is the founder and CEO of Cartesia. He started Cartesia after completing his PhD from Stanford's AI lab, where he also met his cofounders. Cartesia has raised over $27M from Lightspeed, Index, Conviction, General Catalyst and some amazing angels.
Sarvam
- Sarvam is on a mission to make generative AI real for Bharat, and has raised $41M from Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures and PeakXV. Dr. Pratyush Kumar cofounded Sarvam and is an AI and systems engineering researcher with tenure at MSR, IBM Research, and IITM. He co-founded AI4Bharat and PadhAI, and holds Ph.D. from ETH Zurich and a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.