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Arman Assadi retweeted
@gustaf (Y Combinator) sees voice agents land across wildly different categories, and he’s watched voice companies go from demo to multiple rounds. At VapiCon he’ll share what YC is seeing: how fast these companies grow, how pricing has shifted in 12 months, and why the biggest opportunity is still ahead.
Future of Voice panel, Nov 12. Code ALSTROMER50 for 50% off: vapi.ai/vapicon-2026
I think businesses are going to lose customers by insisting on talking to them.
Someone sends their AI to move an appointment. The business says, “Have them call us.” Now the customer has to do the work they thought they’d handed off.
The business needs proof of what the customer allowed, and a way to complete the task within those limits. Sounding human isn’t proof of permission.
Over time, I expect the request, permission, and confirmation to move directly between systems.
Businesses need to start figuring out how to serve a customer who never joins the conversation.
I wrote more about where I think this is going: vapi.ai/blog/your-next-custo…
Huge respect for this move 🎩
Everyone is sick of generic AI, including us.
Gamma was the first AI presentation platform to reach real scale. But now that AI tools are everywhere, everything looks the same.
Earlier this summer, we came to an uncomfortable conclusion: without a step change in visual variety, Gamma’s output would look and feel too similar to all the other AI tools. The entire point of a presentation is to help someone "get" your idea, to see it as unique and do something with it.
We started over. Today we're shipping Gamma 5, the biggest product overhaul in our company's history.
We rebuilt Gamma to create presentations that actually look like you and your brand. Your teams can design anything they dream up, following your brand's aesthetic or something entirely new, with every frontier and image model under the hood. And the same goes for your docs, social assets, and graphics.
We revamped our agent, design tools, editing, import, export, connectors, and more.
Get your ideas out there.
Cape Town 😍
once ASI is here and living somewhere because of "work" becomes pointless, people with money will just move to the nicest places on earth
Mediterranean climate, ocean, mountains, good food, beautiful isolated towns
places like this are going to become insanely valuable
probably worth buying real estate there now
Arman Assadi retweeted
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
Arman Assadi retweeted
We just made it easier for you to make phone calls with @Vapi_AI from whatever agent harness or personal assistant you are using. You can use this with no account, no API key, and no setup.
Have your personal AI assistant make the call you keep putting off.
Vapi Personal Assistant Calling is now in beta. Free to try and works with Muse, Instinct, GrokBot, ChatGPT Work, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes.
One of our team members had his assistant call an airline to upgrade his seat. 14 minutes on hold, fee waived, confirmation texted back, while he kept working.
Paste this into your assistant:
"Open phone.vapi.ai, read the agent instructions, and call [business + location] to [task]."
How our team is using it: vapi.ai/blog/vapi-personal-a…
Have your personal AI assistant make the call you keep putting off.
Today we're launching @Vapi_AI Personal Agent Calling. It's free to try now in beta.
Give your assistant this prompt:
"Open phone.vapi.ai, read the agent instructions, and call [business + location] to [task]."
Works with @Muse, Instinct, Grok @bot, @ChatGPT Work, @claudeai Code, @openclaw, and Hermes.
A few calls to hand off:
- Ask a restaurant if there's a table for four tonight.
- Check whether a store has the item you need in stock.
- Find out when a mechanic can fit you in.
- Ask a hotel about checking in after midnight.
Try it and tell me how it went (including features you'd want to see next)!
Arman Assadi retweeted
Hello computer,
Find every Amazon purchase I ever made.
Call the number of the manufacturer.
Say you’re not satisfied.
Request a refund.
If they decline, threaten to leave a bad review.
If they decline, find the CEO’s phone number and ask him for a refund.
Now, repeat the same process for items I never even purchased and see if you can get them to send me money.
If they ask for a recipient, generate an image of one and send that.
Do not stop until you’ve collected $1 million in refunds.
Arman Assadi retweeted
It’s funny, Meta went from having my Instagram and WhatsApp data to now having access to my email, calendar, DoorDash, Amazon and pretty much everything.
In the last 24 hours, it bought me socks, ordered my Whole Foods groceries, booked a cleaning service and got me a burger for dinner.
Meta’s last disclosed North American Facebook ARPU was around $227/year, largely from ads. I suspect it can push that number significantly higher now that it understands not only what I look at, but what I need, what I buy and what I’m planning to do.
Also the much bigger opportunity might be becoming the aggregation layer between me and the entire internet. If Meta can take even a tiny percentage of the commerce it facilitates, or of the money it saves me, this could become enormous!
It already saved me $200 by canceling subscriptions and services I no longer needed. This feels much bigger than better ad targeting. Ads are useful but giving me money back is better imo.
One additional thought: the agent is increasingly making the decisions for me. I knew nothing about that burger place. The agent researched it, told me which burger I should order, and I just said “okay” without giving it much more thought.
Agents are becoming the decision makers in both B2C and B2B. Increasingly, every business will be selling not just to humans, but to their agents.
Everything becomes B2A: business to agents.
Arman Assadi retweeted
The cortisol spike from exercise suppresses the next cortisol response from a stressor.
Exercise before stressful things.
Arman Assadi retweeted
Whoa- this is the most fantastic pedagogical tool I’ve encountered in as long as I can remember (which is a helluva high bar, considering who I live with).
I’m so excited to have my 6yo play with it! And you all should too.
anyhumanever.com/
Arman Assadi retweeted
Today we're announcing @metalraise $4.5M Seed Round, led by @a16z @speedrun / @ycombinator.
With participation from @pioneer_fund, Rebel Fund, @gaingelsvc, @indusvalleycap, @teamignitevc, @PhazeVentures and others.
In less than a year of launch, and with six consecutive quarters of 30-80% q/q growth, Metal is tracking for multi-million annual revenue run rate by the end of FY2026.
The core missing infrastructure in private markets has been an investor memory layer, an effort that we've been working on for three years. Today, for the first time, we are publishing our thesis on how private markets will evolve in the years ahead. See press release in comments below!
Arman Assadi retweeted
Wherever you are in the world, Tony Robbins AI is on call. Get personalized guidance based on my tools and strategies, anytime you need it.
Try it now for just $1: tonyr.co/3RmiJch
Built by @Steno_ai
Arman Assadi retweeted
So, @TonyRobbins AI Twin just crossed 10 million voice calls on Steno. Have you called him yet?
Arman Assadi retweeted
You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
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Just keep going ✌️
