Bay Area Voice AI Night ｜Stepfun X Seamate

About the Event Voice AI Night is a focused Bay Area gathering for founders, builders, product leaders, and investors working on Voice AI. On July 30, StepFun and Seamate bring together people building voice agents, AI hardware, customer support automation, companion AI, language learning products, and realtime voice infrastructure for an evening of model insights, product discussion, and dinner conversations. What's Happening 🎙️ Keynote : Voice models, from the model side StepFun is a frontier AI lab building language, multimodal, and audio models. StepFun will share what it is seeing from the model side: where speech models are moving, what StepAudio 2.5 is designed for, and what better realtime voice intelligence could unlock for builders. 🧠 Founder panel: What It Takes to Ship Voice AI We’ll talk about the real work behind shipping Voice AI: latency, interruptions, memory, voice UX, evaluation, user trust, and the messy gap between a great demo and a product people keep using. The panel will be primarily in Mandarin 普通话, and English-speaking attendees are very welcome. 🍽️ Outdoor buffet dinner + unhurried conversations After the panel, the conversation continues outdoors over seafood, lamb and beef, with two full hours to meet and exchange notes with other founders and builders. Who Should Come This gathering is for people actively building, investing in, or seriously exploring Voice AI. You’ll feel at home here if you’re building voice agents, voice-first products, AI hardware, support automation, language learning apps, or realtime voice infrastructure. We especially welcome application-layer builders. Registration is approval-based so we can keep the room focused and useful. Keynote Yang Yang, Speech Model Researcher, StepFun Next-Gen Speech Models: End-to-End Voice Intelligence 🌟About StepAudio 2.5 StepAudio 2.5 is StepFun’s audio model family for speech understanding, speech synthesis and speech recognition. It supports speech understanding with vocal cues, instruction-following speech generation, zero-shot voice cloning, and low-latency Chinese and English speech recognition for live captions, voice input, and meeting transcription. Explore the official StepAudio 2.5 documentation → Agenda 5:00 PM ｜ Check-in & Welcome Drinks 5:20 PM ｜ Opening 5:30 PM ｜ Keynote + Founder Panel 7:00 PM ｜ Dinner Mixer, continuing from the main session Language The keynote and panel will be primarily in Mandarin. English-speaking founders and builders are more than welcome to join. Networking and dinner will naturally be bilingual. About the Hosts Seamate (出海同学会) is a community for founders, builders, and investors exploring AI, startups, and global markets. With 15,000+ members across 10+ countries, we connect entrepreneurs across the U.S., China, and Southeast Asia and beyond through events, conversations, and collaborations. StepFun is a leading foundation model company committed to the long-term pursuit of AGI, backed by a top-tier technical team. Its Step model family spans language, multimodal, and reasoning capabilities. With a strategic focus on AI-powered intelligent terminals, StepFun has also built strong commercial traction across major consumer device categories, including smartphones and automotive. Its model capabilities have been integrated into large-scale device and in-car agent scenarios, bringing foundation model intelligence closer to everyday user experiences.