Voice AI doesn’t travel across markets as easily as text. A model still has to handle local accents, pauses, background noise and the way people actually speak.
Deepgram says its API requests in APAC rose 96% over the past year. I spoke with Sriram Ved, the company’s VP and
Huawei is speeding up its AI chip roadmap. Its next Ascend 960DT chip is now coming in early 2027, months ahead of the previous timeline, as Huawei steps up its efforts to compete with NVIDIA.
Banks want AI. But is the infrastructure beneath their apps ready for it?
I spoke with Mohamed Oueida, founder and CEO of a16z-backed Stitch, about why legacy core systems are difficult to modernize, why the company started in the Gulf and whether its model can travel to