Rashi Shrivastava is a reporter covering technology with a focus in artificial intelligence. She writes a weekly Forbes newsletter on all things AI called The Prompt. She joined Forbes in January 2022 and is based in Upstate New York.
LiveKit provides the network infrastructure that startups like OpenAI and Character AI use to ensure AI models can interact with people across audio and visual formats.Russ D'Sa and David Zhao cofounded network infrastructure startup in 2021 to help developers add audio and video capabilities to their applications. Now the duo see generative AI model builders as a growing market for their product.
As recently as November 2023, D’Sa struggled to raise capital for his startup because investors thought these multimodal models were still at least five years away. That belief changed within just a few months as bothdemoed and released new AI models that can process and generate content across audio and visual formats.
To tackle this issue LiveKit uses a protocol called UDP that lets applications stream audio and video content without needing to confirm each packet . The company’s pitch convinced Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who is also looking to add voice capabilities to his AI-powered search engine, to invest in his startup.
AI model builders aren’t LiveKit’s only customers. LiveKit’s open source tools are also being used to power customer support calls, schedule appointments with patients at hospitals, drive autonomous tractors in farms and carry out a quarter of 911 dispatch calls, D’Sa said. LiveKit claims its suite of tools come handy for these real-time audio and video applications, making the data transfer process swift and more efficient at scale.
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