Matthew Makai
About Matthew Makai
Matt Makai, VP of Developer Relations and Experience, founded AssemblyAI and has significantly advanced the field of Speech AI through innovations like the Conformer-2 model.
Matt Makai: VP, Developer Relations and Experience
Matt Makai is currently the Vice President of Developer Relations and Experience. In this role, he oversees crucial aspects of customer engagement and product interaction in the AI industry. His leadership aims to enhance the user experience and foster a robust developer community around the company's offerings.
Series C Funding and Financial Milestones
Matt Makai played an instrumental role in raising $50 million in Series C funding led by Accel, bringing the total funds raised to $115 million. Remarkably, 90% of these funds were raised in the last 22 months, underscoring the company’s rapid growth and investor confidence. The capital is earmarked for advancing research, developing new models, expanding market reach, and increasing team capacity.
AssemblyAI and Speech AI Models
Matt Makai founded AssemblyAI with the vision of creating superhuman Speech AI models. The latest innovation, the Conformer-2 model, has been trained on 1.1 million hours of voice data. This model shows significant improvements, making up to 43% fewer errors on noisy data and demonstrating nearly a 50% accuracy improvement compared to the previous generation of models. Currently, the company is working on the next-generation Universal model, which is being trained on more than 10 million hours of voice data using Google’s new TPU chips.
High-Volume AI Data Processing
AssemblyAI, under Matt Makai’s leadership, serves over 25 million inference calls and processes over 10 terabytes of voice data daily. This high-volume data processing plays a crucial role in refining and enhancing their AI models, ensuring they remain at the forefront of speech recognition technology.
Growth and Customer Base
The company sees substantial growth with over 10,000 new organizations signing up for its API each month. Its diverse customer base includes notable companies like Fireflies.ai, Veed, TypeForm, Close, Loop Media, and CallRail. These organizations leverage AssemblyAI's advanced speech recognition technology to innovate in various fields.
Team Expansion and Recruitment
To support the company’s growth and research ambitions, Matt Makai has successfully recruited research leaders and scientists from leading tech giants such as DeepMind, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta. This strategic hiring strengthens the company's research capabilities and supports the development of next-generation AI models.