Rissa Cao is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fish Audio, an AI voice generation and text-to-speech company building audio infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native applications. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~Before Fish Audio, she co-founded PixAI at Mewtant, helping scale the platform to more than 10 million creators and 1 billion artworks generated. She previously worked on the product team at Meta Reality Labs and held earlier roles at Amazon Alexa. At Fish Audio, Rissa has helped scale the company to more than 8 million users and $21 million in ARR in its first year, with a focus on multilingual voice generation, low-latency inference, voice cloning, and a large community-driven voice library.Topics

How AI voice is evolving from text-to-speech into a foundational layer for AI-native applications.
Building Fish Audio from zero to $21 million in ARR and more than 8 million users in one year, and the product and growth decisions that enabled that pace of scale
The technical challenges behind voice AI, including inference cost, training efficiency, latency, and accent preservation.

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Rissa Cao, Fish Audio CEO on Building AI Voice Infrastructure

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Rissa Cao, Fish Audio CEO on Building AI Voice Infrastructure