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Stanford Online: University Courses & Lectures
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs on The Future of Voice Systems
For more information about Stanford's online Artificial Intelligence programs, visit: https://stanford.io/ai Follow along with the course schedule and syllabus, visit: https://cs153.stanford.edu/ In week two of CS153 ("AI Coachella"), Anjney Midha interviews Mati Staniszewski, founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, tracing the company’s origins from an early Discord text-to-speech bot to a fast-growing frontier audio and speech platform. Uploaded 04-05-26 Mati explains ElevenLabs’ initial focus on solving AI dubbing inspired by Poland’s single-voice film narration, the shift to prioritizing emotional, natural-sounding text-to-speech for creators, and the evolution from cascaded pipelines (transcription, translation/LLM, and speech generation) toward real-time voice agents. They discuss tradeoffs between cascaded versus fused multimodal systems, efforts to detect and convey emotion, safety and voice authentication limits, on-device model deployment, collaboration with teams like Sesame, and business lessons on PLG plus enterprise deployment, team structure, pricing from customer value, and growth to over $430M revenue with ~450 employees. Guest Speaker: Mati Staniszewski is the CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs, the AI voice/audio platform. Born in 1995 in a town outside Warsaw, Poland, he attended Copernicus Bilingual High School in Warsaw before earning a degree in mathematics from Imperial College London. While at Imperial, he organized Mathscon, a UK student-led mathematics conference. His earlier career included roles at Opera Software, BlackRock (where he worked in the Portfolio Analytics Group and helped launch the Aladdin Wealth platform), and Palantir Technologies (as a Deployment Strategist managing large-scale public- and private-sector implementations). In 2022, he co-founded ElevenLabs with his high school friend Piotr Dabkowski. He has raised hundreds of millions from investors, including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and Salesforce Ventures, with the company valued at $11 billion as of February 2026. He joined the board of Klarna in 2025 and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in 2024 and TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2025. Follow the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rN447WKQ5oz_YdYbS74M5IA&si=DOJ5amlyRdyMJBhG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 1 hr 13 min
Less Boring Lectures
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Today · 11 min
Darwin College Lecture Series
Appearance and Physical Reality by Carlo Rovelli
Can we “see” photons, black holes, curved spacetime, quantum jumps, the expansion of the universe, or quanta of space? Physics challenges appearances, showing convincingly that our everyday vision of reality is limited, approximate and badly incomplete. Established theories such as quantum theory and general relativity and investigations like loop quantum gravity have a reputation of obscurity. Many suggest that science is forcing us into a counterintuitive and purely mathematical understanding of reality. I disagree. I think that there is a visionary core at the root of the best science. Where “visionary” truly means formed by visual images. Our mind, even when dealing with abstract and difficult notions, relies on images, metaphors and, ultimately, vision. Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, science is not just about making predictions: it is about understanding, and, for this, developing new eyes to see. I shall illustrate this point with some concrete cases, including the birth of quantum theory in Einstein’s intuition, curved spacetimes, and quanta of space. Uploaded 21-02-19 Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, known for the development Loop Quantum Gravity, his work on the nature of physical time and the Relational Interpretation of quantum mechanics. He was born in Italy in 1956, has studied in Bologna and Padova and has worked in several Universities in Italy and the United States; he is currently directing the Quantum Gravity group of the Centre de Physique Théorique of the University of Aix-Marseille. He has honorary degrees from Beijing Normal University, and the Universidad de San Martin of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of Science, of the Institut Universitaire de France and of the Accademia Galileana. He has written successful popular science books: his “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” is translated in 41 languages and has sold over a million copies. His most recent book, The Order of Time, is on the nature of time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 1 hr 12 min
Stanford Online: University Courses & Lectures
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | The AI Native Company: How One Founder Becomes a 1000x Engineer
For more information about Stanford's online Artificial Intelligence programs, visit: https://stanford.io/ai Follow along with the course schedule and syllabus, visit: https://cs153.stanford.edu/ In a CS153 Frontier Systems lecture, the class shifts from upstream bottlenecks like power and compute to the capital and company-formation layer, framing YC's 2010s introduction of the SAFE as a standardization moment for venture capital comparable to the buildout of the electrical grid. Uploaded 20-05-26 Guests Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, and General Partner Diana Hu argue that agentic coding, unlocked by Claude 4.5 in late 2025, has collapsed the unit of production: Tan recounts rebuilding his old startup Posterous in five days on a $200 Claude Max plan and shipping his open-source GStack and GBrain projects to over 100,000 GitHub stars. They walk through agentic primitives — skills, resolvers, Skillify, evals, and a three-layer memory system — and map them onto company structure, with skills as employees, resolvers as the org chart, and CheckResolvable as audit and compliance. Hu closes by arguing AI-native companies run as closed-loop systems with one or two million dollars in revenue per employee, citing YC portfolio companies Salient, Happy Robot, and Reducto as forward-deployed examples and pointing to white space across back office, finance, and customer service for one-person frontier companies. Garry Tan is president and CEO of Y Combinator and a General Partner. He was a partner at Y Combinator from 2011 to 2015, where he built key parts of the YC experience for founders including Bookface and the Demo Day website. Garry is the co-founder of Initialized Capital and Posterous (YC S08), a blog platform acquired by Twitter, and prior to that, he was an early designer and engineering manager at Palantir (NYSE:PLTR), where he designed the company logo. Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford. Diana Hu is a General Partner at YC. She was co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (YC S17), an Augmented Reality Backend company that was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokémon Go). At Niantic, she was the head of the AR platform. Previously, she led data science at OnCue TV that was sold to Verizon. Originally from Chile, Diana graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus in computer vision and machine learning. Follow the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rN447WKQ5oz_YdYbS74M5IA&si=DOJ5amlyRdyMJBhG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 53 min