Ben Lower

Golfer. Creator of fun times. Building the future of AI-powered apps @FixieAI.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@boztank @andymstone you all at Facebook/Meta have always shown you lie and will encroach on anyone's privacy to make a buck. but i'm sure you are telling the truth this time.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

Having some rye from Whiskey Thief in honor of that birdie putt on 17 by @AaronRaiGolf

[Ben Lower @benlower]

Sure but does it have legs?

https://t.co/SrcaGvjLAE

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@mdancho84 markitdown is two years old

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@prasann_pandya @turbopuffer > pinecone

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@a16z Why didn't you use it to help with your data viz? Atrocious.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@durov Freedom doesn't mean you are free to do whatever you want. There are still laws and prosecutions for CSAM, drug trafficking, etc. Telegram and Twitter are not being persecuted...

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@meetgranola FFS, you need someone with taste to tell the AI design agent, "no".

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@twilio need some help. got burned by a known, undisclosed bug in @segment that cost us a lot of time. support & billing teams are not throwing us the smallest of bones. we expect and demand better. help us navigate the bureaucracy?

[Ben Lower @benlower]

When you look at these evals it's clear:

@OpenAI is realtime...ish.
@GeminiApp is live...ish.
@ultravox_dot_ai is...*the* ish.

Whether you're using @pipecat_ai or not, if you are interested in building agentic voice AI solutions for your company, we'd love to help.

[Ultravox AI @ultravox_dot_ai]

Ultravox is now available as a speech-to-speech service in @pipecat_ai!

Users building real-time conversational agents can now integrate the world's smartest speech model into an existing Pipecat application with minimal friction.

https://t.co/amrPQYjj8z

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@StephenM they clearly say in the video that people don't have to follow illegal orders. that is all.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@Labber19 @MidwestGolfJake tell me you don’t know anything about golf without telling me you don’t know anything about golf…

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@conorbradd @NUCLRGOLF no way this guy broke 80. gave four tips when asked for one.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@PGAChampionship Not an ace. An amazingly great shot for sure. But not an ace.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@PGAChampionship 4i right at the corner of the grandstand

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@MKBHD surprised you are getting a truck with customizable wallpapers ;)

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@dieworkwear ah! i thought the obvious issue was that Hawley has no friends

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@LouStagner Tiger’s own standard of success was majors. So by his own standard, he’s not the greatest.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

@Scobleizer Elon can't even secure a database or deliver on promises made years ago. The emperor has no clothes.

[Ben Lower @benlower]

Ultravox v0.5 is out and is a big deal for realtime AI. Would love to connect if you are building voice AI agents or are looking to get higher ROI from your existing agents.

[Ultravox AI @ultravox_dot_ai]

Today we're releasing Ultravox v0.5, the next iteration of our open-weight speech language model

With this release, we've closed the gap with proprietary models. Ultravox now outperforms GPT-4o Realtime & Gemini 1.5 Flash on key benchmarks for speech understanding

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