Founder of a listed tool
Arjun Desai
Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Arjun builds
Cartesia Ink B · Speech-to-text
Cartesia's hosted speech-to-text API. Ink 2 transcribes live audio in five languages over a WebSocket with built-in turn detection, and the older Ink Whisper model transcribes uploaded files in about 100 languages.
Co-founder, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP B · Text-to-speech
Sonic text-to-speech, currently
sonic-3.6in 44 languages, over/tts/bytes,/tts/sseand a WebSocket that takes streamed LLM text with contexts and word timestamps.Co-founder, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP C · Voice cloning & custom voices
Instant voice clones for Sonic from 10 to 60 seconds of audio, and Pro Voice Clones fine-tuned on 30 minutes or more, trained in up to 3 hours.
Co-founder, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Albert Gu Co-founder and Chief Scientist
- Brandon Yang Co-founder
- Karan Goel Founder and CEO
Questions
Who is Arjun Desai?
Arjun Desai is a co-founder of Cartesia, which builds real-time voice AI models. Cartesia's founding team met as PhD students at Stanford AI Lab, where they worked on state space models. He is a co-author of Llamba, Cartesia's 2025 research on distilled recurrent language models.
What does Cartesia make?
Anchor Terminal lists Cartesia Ink, Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP and Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP from Cartesia. Cartesia's hosted speech-to-text API. Ink 2 transcribes live audio in five languages over a WebSocket with built-in turn detection, and the older Ink Whisper model transcribes uploaded files in about 100 languages.
How are Arjun's tools graded?
Cartesia Ink is graded B, 68 out of 100; Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP is graded B, 64 out of 100; Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP is graded C, 59.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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