🎧 START pod: Amit Yadav, Founder & CEO, Fern: “Real-Time AI Co-Pilot for Sales and Beyond.”

Every voice AI has the same problemThe moment you stop talking, it starts talkingBut humans don’t work that wayIn real conversations, pauses don’t always mean interruption. Sometimes they mean: keep goingCurrent AI misses this completely.Amit Yadav spent years building real-time AI systems at Meta Reality Labs for Ray-Ban smart glassesNow he’s building Fern: a sales copilot that assists teams live during meetings.Not after the call.During it.The hard problem isn’t retrieval anymore.It’s judgment.Because the future of AI won’t be defined by smarter answers alone.It’ll be defined by systems that understand how humans actually communicate.🎙️ Amit Yadav, CEO & Co-Founder of Fern, on Fondo START pod‍01:24 “Imagine your sales rep hears a prospect question and answers appear instantly.”01:55 The hardest AI problem: knowing the right time to help02:09 “Our in-house model beats human judgment, ChatGPT, and Gemini.”02:46 Building realtime AI systems for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses03:57 Fern’s desktop copilot listens and assists during meetings04:34 The industry shift from prompted AI → proactive AI assistance05:28 Replacing Slack searches, docs, and tabs during live calls07:10 “The most exciting thing is AI helping you without asking for it.”11:09 Why silence in human conversation doesn’t always mean interruption14:15 The need for a realtime social-awareness layer between humans and LLMs‍Check out getfern.ai