Today, we’re excited to release the first step in our mission to build real time multimodal intelligence for every device: Sonic, a blazing fast  (🚀 135ms model latency), lifelike generative voice model and API.

Read cartesia.ai/blog/sonic and try Sonic play.cartesia.ai

Excited to announce this year’s Founder Salary Report. It's our 4th iteration of this report and it's better than ever.

More than 1,000 founder salaries analyzed with breakdowns by geo, funding level, and company size. We also added a deep dive on AI startup founder salaries.

Most OpenAI customers it exclusively. But almost everyone who uses Anthropic also uses OpenAI.

Is there something super-sticky about OpenAI? Or is it just that they got there first?

Should we expect more of this 'I use multiple models' in the future?

30% of startups are paying an AI foundational model provider today, in our analysis of ~2k companies in Pilot 's dataset.

Most paid usage is dominated by OpenAI, until very recently—huge spike in usage for Anthropic right alongside the announcement of Claude 3.

📣📣 We're less than one month away from our Founder Tactics event 📣📣

We've got a stellar speaker lineup with Diane Greene, Jack Altman, Paris Heymann, Wade Foster, Peter Walker and Pilot's own Waseem Daher and Jeff Arnold

You won't want to miss it! founder-tactics.pilot.com/?utm_medium=so…

Can you get away with doing bookkeeping once a year? Yes, but I don't recommend it:

1. You’ll need accurate books for filing taxes and waiting until the last minute ends up being painful for both you and your tax preparer

2. At some point you’ll need to provide financial

Delaware doesn't require that you have a 'President' or 'CEO'. In fact, they don't specify the required titles at all.

They just require an officer that can sign stock certificates (usually the president or CEO), and an officer who has the “duty to record the proceeds of the

Don’t get cute with your company's legal name.

The rules about naming your company are quite specific.

Delaware says: the name of the company shall contain 1 of the words 'association,' 'company,' 'corporation,' 'club,' 'foundation,' 'fund,' 'incorporated,' 'institute,'

Will Harrison Chase and I accidentally create AGI when I interview him at Pilot about LangChain on Mar 13?

Well, you'll have to join in person to find out. Join the waitlist here—priority will be given to active AI founders:
pilot.com/event/founders…

Classic founder mistake #195: you have to file a tax return.

Yes, even if you had no revenue.

Yes, even if the company only existed for one day in 2023.

Yes, even if you don't want to.

Please tell your founder friends and save them the pain of the scary IRS letter.