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Nicolas Dessaigne

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Co-founder of @algolia - Group partner at @ycombinator
San Francisco, CA ycombinator.com Joined July 2009
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Nicolas Dessaigne Verified account @dessaigne
Every voice AI co says they're the most natural. To figure out who is the best as what, Cekura (YC F24) tested 50+ models on recordings of real people doing real tasks.
Check it out before choosing your stack!
Tarush Agarwal Verified account @tarush_agarwal_ 3d
Introducing Cekura Bench: the world’s leading Voice AI Benchmarks

We benchmarked 50+ models from openAi, Google, Nvidia, xAI, Inworld, Gradium, Assembly, Fish audio and more

Now you can:
→ Compare naturalness, performance and cost
→ See how the best voice agents are being built.
→ Find the best fit for what you are building.

Our tests cover Speech-to-Speech models, Speech-to-Text models, Text-to-Speech Models, and Voice Agent platforms. We recorded real humans doing tasks in different domains and created the most representative voice benchmark out there!

Explore the benchmarks: benchmarks.cekura.ai

We would love to collaborate with more teams on these benchmarks. Reach out if you are interested.
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Nicolas Dessaigne Verified account @dessaigne
The @blaxelAI team has been on fire! Shipping fast and growing like crazy.
Now they're joining forces with @baseten to move even faster, bringing agent infrastructure and model inference together.
Huge congrats to the team! 💥
Blaxel Verified account @blaxelAI Sep 10
Excited to announce Blaxel is joining @Baseten! Together, we are building the future of agentic infrastructure.

More details in thread. 👇

For everyone building on Blaxel today: nothing changes. The product continues, and we keep shipping.
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Nicolas Dessaigne Verified account @dessaigne
Congrats to @metriport on their $26M Series A 💥

I was lucky to work with @dimagoncharov_ and @ColinElsinga from their pivot in S22 to their crazy success today. From a "small" data integration play, they are becoming the single source fo truth for customers like Amazon One Medical, Strive Health, Color and Canvas Medical.

Patients are already getting better treatments because of their work. Can't wait to see how they'll transform healthcare 🚀
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Nicolas Dessaigne Verified account @dessaigne
On the sidelines of Paris Startup School, I sat down with @oliveur, cofounder and CEO of @datadoghq. Little did I know that Datadog actually applied to YC in 2010 and was rejected! Nearly every other investor passed too.
Nine years later, it went public at about $7.5B. They are now at over $80B. Olivier still keeps PG's rejection email.
In this video, Olivier shared how they got there and how he continues leading the company in founder mode.
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