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What app hit 3M users in 60 days, and wants to be the “AI-native Facebook”? We talked to the founder on why Southeast Asia is the real AI battleground, and how they’re using Agora to build the voice-first AI super-app. From group memory to instant slide decks, this one’s wild

@NVIDIAGTC week starts today. The MiniMax team will be around the Bay Area all week, meeting builders, researchers, and founders. If you are around, come find us: • Mar 16-18 afternoons: GTC Booth #142 w/@gmi_cloud • Monday (Mar 16) 7pm MiniMax x @baseten AI Leader Dinner • Wednesday (Mar 18) 6pm Exclusive night w/@novita_labs • Wednesday (Mar 18) 6pm OSS AI @ GTC • Wednesday (Mar 18) 6:30pm Founder Salon w/@gmi_cloud • Thursday (Mar 19) 9:30am Physical AI Meetup w/@AgoraIO • Friday (Mar 20) 6:30pm Agentic AI Leaders Dinner • Saturday (Mar 21) 2pm MiniMax AI Founder Day in SF✨ If you're building with frontier models, multimodal AI, or real-time agents — let's talk! 👉Follow MiniMax event calendar for real-time updates: luma.com/MiniMax

This week in Voice AI may have been quieter, but it still brought some noteworthy updates 🤗 ! @AgoraIO has released its new ConvoAI Studio providing a no-code deployment tool to configure, test, & deploy Voice AI agents, along with targeted solutions for Customer Support and Sales & Marketing. Additionally, a new open-source solution called Dograh has emerged, which mimics VAPI or Retell AI solutions. @togethercompute has also enhanced its offerings by adding hosted for speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) models to deploy very low latency agents in a similar way to Cloudflare approach. Two opensource TTS models coming from @hume_ai and @FishAudio promising zero content hallucinations with a novel text-audio sync approach in the first case and promising high level of control and emotions in the second case. As usual, upgrades for all the major orchestration frameworks @livekit, @pipecat_ai and @TenFramework and found specially interesting the approach to split instructions by modality added to LiveKit that we have been using at @livetok_ai for a while too, and the interesting blog post from Daily showing the performance of the new @nvidia Nemotron model for Voice AI use cases. Full update with more news, details and link below 👇 Have a nice week!

If you are attending NVIDIA GTC, check this meetup too Register here: luma.com/zdrsjwd8 Wednesday 18 March 17:30 - 20:30 GMT-7 Location: 2804 Mission College Blvd Santa Clara, California #NVIDIAGTC #VoiceAI #AIMeetup @AgoraIO

@aivalleyio’s first Demo Day!! 🩵👏 Im partnership with @UofBeta @AgoraIO @theagentic @VictorSuOrtiz @zifeng_liang

Agora Partners with Sentino to Advance Physical AI Through Customizable, Retentive AI Agent Experiences 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 👇 smartsolutionsworld.com/agora-partners… @AgoraIO #Agora #SmartSolutionsWorld

@cengzhnkse Nice work! Super cool!

besides all the motion designers doing their personal promotion i really did this animation with 1 prompt and won the @AgoraIO's convoai hackathon here's how

@hermes_f Exactly! The magic that makes characters feel alive is not scripted in their prompt, its when low-latency, natural voice, and real context come together.

AI characters don’t win by being louder or flashier, they win by feeling responsive, contextual, and alive. Great conversation on where virtual influencers are really headed.

Cant talk right now. At @AgoraIO event.

Check out the full episode: youtu.be/vxplybtxNjs

How do you design an AI character that people actually want to talk to? If you're building AI characters, virtual influencers, or immersive digital experiences, this episode offers grounded, real-world perspectives from the heart of the ecosystem. Check out our fascinating conversation with Jia Shen, Founder & CEO of AKA Virtual. He talks about how AI-driven virtual characters are reshaping gaming, entertainment, and the broader virtual economy. Episode link in the comments 👇

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What a perfect way to close out the year! I had an amazing time at Voice AI NYC: Innovators and Startups hosted by @AgoraIO at LOFT 29. S/O to @hermes_f for the invite! It was fascinating connecting with builders and investors to discuss the future of Voice AI. The venue, food, and vibe were all incredible! Since this was my last meetup of 2025, I want to give a massive thank you to everyone for the good memories and new friendships I’ve made this year. I’m already looking forward to more events in 2026.

Check out the full episode with the founder of @agnesai_sapiens youtube.com/watch?v=dVQvta…

What app hit 3M users in 60 days, and wants to be the “AI-native Facebook”? We talked to the founder on why Southeast Asia is the real AI battleground, and how they’re using Agora to build the voice-first AI super-app. From group memory to instant slide decks, this one’s wild

@rimelabs youtu.be/LvM4lDTGhZo?si…

'Boring' voices convert better & speech models need FLAVOR! @rimelabs Lily Clifford joins Convoy AI World podcast to talk about the fight against generic voice agents & how chasing polished perfection can kill relatability. Full episode out now, on YT + all podcast platforms

“The best-performing voices aren’t the polished, perfect ones. They’re the downbeat, human voices that sound like the person actually working the drive-thru.” This week, I sat down with @AgoraIO's Convo AI World to talk about: + Why most voice models are still Wonder Bread + Why open-source speech datasets bake in bias by default + Why relatability > “sounding like a polished actor” + How Rime built a recording studio to collect truly conversational data + Why enterprise voice needs a path to 100% pronunciation accuracy to really scale See link below to listen to the episode! 👇

✨ Meet the Mentors of #HackFest2025! 🚀 From AI/ML & Cloud to Frontend & Tech Leadership, our mentors are ready to guide participants through 24 hrs of innovation & coding! 💻 Let’s build, learn & innovate together with @AgoraIO ! 🙌 🗓️ Nov 14–15 | 🌐 Online #GDGCloudNewDelhi

Headed to #SFF2025? Let's talk Conversational AI! We're hosting a mixer with @AgoraIO, our valued ISV partner and long time customer, to dive into the tech behind scalable, real-time #AI engagement. 📅 Nov 13, 6 PM SGT 📍 RASA Space 🔗 Register: hubs.la/Q03SxQ8v0 #FinTech