Inworld AI

Inworld has been recognized as one of the 2025 #LinkedInTopStartups in the U.S., placing within the top 10 out of 50 companies for the second year in a row! A huge thank you to our incredible team, partners, and to LinkedIn for this honor. Ready to be part of a team shaping the future of realtime conversational AI? We’re hiring! https://inworld.ai/careers

Last week we ran two Consumer AI events in SF as part of SF Tech Week by a16z. ➤ VIP Consumer AI breakfast. 50 VC partners and founders in the room got real about what consumer AI products are actually taking off. Moritz Baier-Lentz (Lightspeed), Robert Ravanshenas (Maven), and Josh Constine (SignalFire) shared why virality almost always comes from founders early, what signals indicate a startup will scale (or fizzle), and why unnecessary tech reinvention is a trap. ➤ Consumer AI Vibe Scaling Night with 200+ founders, VCs, and operators attending. Kylan Gibbs moderated Colton Gyulay (Speak), James Groeneveld (Character.AI), and Marvin von Hagen (The Interaction Company of California, Poke). We talked about what makes AI feel human: natural pacing, memory across sessions, expressive voices, safe but unblocked creativity. Panelists shared wins on accent-robust speech recognition, latency improvements, memory features that actually drive retention, and lessons from features that flopped. Huge thanks to our co-hosts at TRMNL4 and co-sponsors Groq, Mistral AI, Pilot.com, and Rho for fueling the rooms. This is just the beginning. At Inworld, we’re doubling down on Consumer AI — the next generation of experiences is already being built. We’ll soon launch a Consumer AI Accelerator for founders shaping what’s next — link to pre-register in the first comment. #ConsumerAI #SFTechWeek #InworldAI #ConversationalAI

Igor Poletaev, our Chief Science Officer, joined Cloudflare, Augment, and Vapi for an insightful discussion on Agent Design & Real-Time Orchestration at VapiCon 2025. 'We need to build the feedback loop around what the end user wants and what to build…the right metrics for that depend on each specific use case.' Thank you to our partners Dan Goosewin and Tuong Tran for the invitation and organizing an awesome event! You can build with Inworld's SOTA, realtime latency voices on Vapi or via Inworld's API here: https://lnkd.in/gs4EnhC4 https://inworld.ai/tts

We're thrilled to partner with LiveKit on their launch of LiveKit Inference! Now, developers can use Inworld TTS along with other state-of-the-art STT and LLMs in LiveKit's unified cloud service. Very grateful to Shayne Parmelee, Tom Shapland, David Zhao, Jenny Liang and the entire LiveKit team for our growing partnership! Learn more now: https://lnkd.in/gBB7r7Ri

I’m stoked to host a panel with truly the best of the best building the frontier of consumer-facing AI at our upcoming Consumer AI Vibe Scaling Night: Colton Gyulay, COO @ Speak James Groeneveld, Chief Intelligence Officer @ Character.AI Marvin von Hagen, CEO & co-founder at The Interaction Company of California. Talking about the rapid evolution of consumer interactions with AI and the explosion of realtime interfaces for voice, text and multimodal experiences. 10/7 in SF Don't miss it. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/g3NHxVtY Hosted for founders, VCs and operators welcome.

Exciting to see Inworld as a featured partner on Microsoft's new unified Marketplace for developers building frontier AI apps and agents. Thanks to our awesome team at Microsoft: Elena Kennedy, Andrew Tawaststjerna, and Florian Meyer! #MSMarketplace Learn more about Runtime via Azure Marketplace: https://lnkd.in/gxKUFPdz And check out our website for full details: https://lnkd.in/g4XtfYVA

Congratulations to Little Umbrella on their launch of Banana of Doom on Steam! Banana of Doom was built using Inworld AI's pipelines and Inworld TTS to achieve an engaging and dynamic user experience. Plus, every card and character is crafted by real artists, and organic growth has powered multiple viral successes with no ads, only pure player passion. Their launch on Steam marks another milestone: cross-play functionality, expanded audiences, and another exciting example of AI-native gaming. Check out the trailer on Steam: https://lnkd.in/gsweb-Q3 Learn more about building AI pipelines for games: https://lnkd.in/g_ZkGGvX Congrats to the entire Little Umbrella team - Tabish Ahmed, Timothy Johnson, and Sean Webster - can't wait to see what you build next!

Consumer AI VIP Breakfast + VC Panel #SFTechWeek We’re bringing together builders and investors to explore the future of consumer AI over breakfast and a curated panel on Tuesday, October 7th in San Francisco. We’ll also be sharing a sneak peek into our upcoming consumer AI startup programs! ➤ Speakers Moritz Baier-Lentz— Partner, Lightspeed Robert Ravanshenas — Partner, Maven Josh Constine — Partner, SignalFire Moderated by Florin Radu — COO, Inworld AI ➤ RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gfjB2Svd Thanks to our partners at TRMNL4, Anna Shchehula, Tania Ladanova, Greg Khodarin, TECH WEEK by a16z team, Tracy Massaro, and Rose Johnson for co-hosting with us.