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Is NVIDIA NIM's free tier good enough for a real-time voice agent demo?
NVIDIA NIM gives you free hosted STT, LLM, and TTS under one API key. I plugged it into Pipecat and built a real-time voice agent with VAD, smart turn detection, and idle reminders in a weekend. Here's what the numbers actually look like.
How to read an AI's thoughts before it speaks
Anthropic built a tool that translates Claude's internal numbers into readable text. When they tested it on a safety scenario, Claude's own thoughts revealed it knew it was being tested the whole time.
How WebRTC Actually Works, All in one post
Before any audio or video flows, WebRTC does a lot of work upfront to find the best candidate pair. This post walks you through exactly how that works, step by step.