Pete Warden's blog

“Pete Warden’s blog” delves into the intricacies of AI applications, focusing on topics like data augmentation, machine learning models, and the challenges of generative AI. The blog explores the importance of understanding and utilizing big data effectively, emphasizing the need for dynamic and responsive data processing. Additionally, it discusses the significance of context in AI systems, highlighting the role of precision and relevance in search mechanisms. Through detailed insights and practical examples, Pete Warden’s blog offers valuable perspectives on enhancing AI capabilities and addressing common pitfalls in AI development.

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Announcing Moonshine Voice

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Today we’re launching Moonshine Voice, a new family of on-device speech to text models designed for live voice applications, and an open source library to run them. They support streaming, doing a lot...

De-ICE Disco at the Googleplex

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When Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered, and I saw the incredible courage of people in Minneapolis in the face of state brutality, I had to find some way to show that tech workers stand with Min...

Speech Embeddings for Engineers

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Deciding who said what is one of the most common tasks when dealing with live speech, but there’s less information available about it than other parts of the pipeline like transcription or voice-activ...

See my friend Annie edit videos with her eyes

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I first met Annie through her work with Muttville, a local non-profit for adopting senior dogs where we found our MinPin. My wife started editing videos to help get more dogs adopted, and Annie was an...

TV Shows I Love That Nobody’s Ever Heard Of

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A big reason I started this blog (almost twenty years ago!) was to have a safe space to rant about things I’m obsessed with. One of those obsessions is TV, but growing up in the UK and living in the U...

How I Screwed Up Sales Hiring

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I founded Moonshine back in 2022, together with Manjunath, another engineer and researcher. My entire career up until that point had been working on consumer products, so I felt very comfortable with ...

I Know We’re in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me 😭

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I first got into deep learning in 2012, when AlexNet came out. I was CTO of Jetpac, a startup that aimed to provide information about bars, hotels, and restaurants by analyzing public photos, for exam...

Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter?

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Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI sta...

How to Try Chrome’s Hidden AI Model

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There’s an LLM hiding in Chrome. Buried in the browser’s basement, behind a door with a “Beware of Leopard” sign. But I’ll show you how to find it. In a couple minutes, you’ll have a private, free cha...

How to caption videos in Javascript

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Pete Warden discusses the importance of captions, highlighting their utility in training speech-to-text AI and advocating for inclusion in more web videos. He announces the launch of MoonshineJS, a to...

Why is Pacifica so Unpopular?

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Not long after I’d first moved to San Francisco, I had a friend from the UK visit. My apartment overlooked the N Judah tram line, and seeing the “Ocean Beach” destination board on the trains made her ...

Why the Chinese Government Taught AI to Lie

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I love the country of China, I made some good friends while collaborating with engineers based in Beijing, but the Chinese government is a repressive regime relying on censorship to control its own po...