@kwindla: Voice agents hackathon at @ycombinator in SF on May 30th. Prizes include a guaranteed YC interview, and special awards …
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A voice agents hackathon hosted by Y Combinator in San Francisco on May 30th, with prizes including a guaranteed YC interview and awards from sponsors like Cekura, NVIDIA, AWS, and Twilio. Participants will build production-scale voice agents using tools like Cekura, NVIDIA Nemotron models on AWS, Twilio telephony, and the Pipecat developer ecosystem.
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Voice agents hackathon at @ycombinator in SF on May 30th.
Prizes include a guaranteed YC interview, and special awards from sponsors @cekuraAi, @NVIDIAAI, @AWS, and @twilio.
Learn to build agents that work at scale, in production.
Use tooling from Cekura to simulate and auto-improve your agents. Handle accents, noisy environments, interruptions, and customers who don’t follow the expected script!
Build with NVIDIA Nemotron open source models, running on AWS infrastructure. Integrate with Twilio’s telephony platform. Leverage the Pipecat developer ecosystem.
Join us for fun, learning, conversations with the engineers building all of the above tools, food, and prizes.
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