Karim Zaidi

[Inworld AI @inworld_ai]

Congrats to @Thobey_Campion and the @lore_machine team on blowing up in South Korea!

Lore Machine is a US-based interactive storytelling platform that started seeing massive organic traction in South Korea. They needed to move fast to capture momentum but had to do so without having to spin up a full localization effort.

By integrating Inworld's Realtime TTS-2, they brought Korean voice-over support to tens of thousands of users almost immediately.

Can't wait to see where this goes next!

[Inworld AI @inworld_ai]

We just shipped something nobody else has.

Our STT API doesn't just transcribe, it returns a full voice profile in the same response: emotion, accent, age, pitch, style, each with a confidence score, all in one call.

When you feed that into our Realtime API, the LLM decides not just what to say but how to say it. It adds steering tags that our TTS-2 model picks up and uses to guide how it speaks. So, if a user sounds frustrated, the voice responds with empathy. If they're excited, it matches that energy.

Here's our very own @ClintMcLean_ walking you through how the full pipeline works:

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@cnnrsmth @eastvillageguy One word
spacs

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@realEstateTrent Its tough but the way I’m figuring it out is waking up at dawn and doing my stuff (working out, some cleaning) before my wife and daughter wake up

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@bryan_johnson Okay he’s going super saiyan next

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

Even though I'm posting this to get a 35% off coupon, I cant avoid saying it's freaking cool: https://t.co/esmb5Je6hq

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is what would-be founders should be doing when they're young, not bogus startup pitching competitions.

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

Find yourself too early, and you might lose yourself too late.

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@biwills @batwood011 @honey @MKBHD People do that on ltk

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@ericmigi @paulg Haha my favorite thing to do with my daughter

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@paulg @omuinetimi Resource constraint for the creative is like fuel for a rocketship

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@paulg @omuinetimi Yeah
Early adopters tend to be those have had to hack some problem due to lack of privilege. They don’t have a ready-made-throw-money-at-this-problem fix, so they have to get creative.

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@Mr_AllenT Can it run on my local?

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.

In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes time to spend, and adding the temporal constraint tends to make things simpler and more efficient.

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@iamyesyouareno They pretend they’re advancing humanity or something

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@jordan_dearsley Today too i bet

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@elonmusk Can we give them biotic abilities like Mass Effect?

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@saas_seller @saleskhalifa If u cant build pipeline
Something might be wrong with your gtm

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

@paulg Cant this be open source?

[Karim Zaidi @kenkarma]

There’s a huge gap between textbooks and cheque books