Team
Sesame is led by Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar, Ryan Brown, and a team of creative individuals with a shared passion. We are backed by Anjney Midha and Marc Andreessen at Andreessen Horowitz, along with Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, and a collection of founders and investors.
We have offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, and New York. Our team members have long-tenured careers in machine learning, hardware, software, and entertainment.
We strongly believe that a small, focused team with a clear vision can build great things.
Product
We are building voice companions capable of holding natural conversations and devices that make them more effective.
Voice as an interface is nuanced and intimate, which makes it a difficult medium to get right. There is a high bar that must be met for voice interfaces to be useful and not annoying, and we are careful and deliberate in how we design our products to meet our users where they want to be.
We believe that a great voice product calls for an interdisciplinary approach that tightly integrates hardware, software, and machine learning.
Research
Deep and innovative machine learning research is essential to our goals. Our research team is actively pushing forward on multiple fronts, including speech generation, personality modeling, and multimodality. Read more about our research in conversational speech generation.
These ambitious research outcomes are only possible with scaled infrastructure for data and training. We operate large GPU clusters and cultivate in-house expertise in training and evaluation.