A deep-dive with Sudharshan, founder of Smallest AI, on building ultra‑fast voice agents, data pipelines inspired by self‑driving, and why active learning beats one‑off models. We cover go‑to‑market for enterprises, fine‑tuning with customer adapters, and his viral hiring ethos: résumés don’t matter—proof of work does.📲 Get premium wireless for as low as $15 a month with my partner at https://www.mintmobile.com/singhMy Recommendations: https://linktree.com/singhinusa1. How I Edit podcast & enhance audio: https://adobe.prf.hn/click/camref:1100l568ad/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.adobe.com2. Checkout KodeKloud & Get upto 45% Off https://bit.ly/4dpsE7y (includes AWS, GCP, Azure Subscriptions with the Pro Plan)3. 📈 Checkout Moomoo from Palo Alto: Get 8.1% APY + 15 Free Stocks: https://start.moomoo.com/singhinusa (Legal of F1 VISA)4. 🏦 Adro US Account with No Incoming Wire Fees (Get $50) http://secure.joinadro.com/signup?referralCode=Singh5. 🎓SoFi Student Loan Refinance and you can get a $300 welcome bonus: https://www.sofi.com/invite/student-loans?gcp=174b310b-f306-454b-86e5-062ce06a9ec7&isAliasGcp=falseIntro: Smallest AI and mission →0:00Self-driving lessons → active learning pipelines → 02:42Latency targets (TTS 100 ms; end-to-end 500-600 ms) → 05:18Early enterprise wins: Paytm, MakeMyTrip, Fortune 500s → 07:02Viral hiring: 1 Cr role, résumé optional; closed in two weeks → 08:09What we hire for: agency, system design, proof of work → 09:41Researchers vs product engineers; hiring laid-off Meta folks → 10:23Founder mindset: breadth, conviction, and risk → 13:05Small models vs scaling laws; specialization beats size → 17:30SLM + modality fusion ("Hydra"): text/audio in/out, tool calling → 33:02Hardware/inference: beyond Nvidia; time-to-first-byte focus → 31:06Data is 90%: labeling strategy for audio, consistency at scale → 36:24Enterprise GTM: integrations, telephony/CRM, discovery-led sales → 21:05Customer adapters: opt-in fine-tuning and data policy → 23:21Fundraising: what investors look for and cold-email/FOMO → 26:33Personal failures → lessons across IIT, Toppr, Bosch → 40:42My Gear:-📕 Favorite Book for Software Engineers: https://geni.us/GT9jvz💻 My Gear Page: https://singhinusa.com/my-tech/📱iPhone: https://geni.us/J9c6GoY📸Sony Camera: https://geni.us/zShMGT4⿍ Tripod: https://geni.us/iVsd🎙Vlogging & Podcast Mic https://geni.us/v915Z9H~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Follow me on - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Follow me on - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iHarnoorTwitter - https://x.com/iHarnoorSinghLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/iHarnoorE-mail for BUSINESS INQUIRY & HELP- hello@singhinusa.comMUSIC CREDITS:Music From (Free Trial): https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/2jy2t1/