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AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume

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AssemblyAI handles 4x YouTube daily voice volume with 800% 3-year growth

2026-07-31 · 2 company · 9 thematic

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dylan fox

Founded AssemblyAI in 2017 after going through Y Combinator's first AI batch. Self-taught programmer with background in NLP and machine learning. Built AssemblyAI into voice AI infrastructure platform handling 120M+ conversations/week, 1M+ developers, 80-person team. Focused on developer tools and infrastructure layer.

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“the amount of weekly conversations that Assembly handles through our APIs every week is up over 800% over the last 3 years. And so now, you know, on a given week, on a peak week, there'll be something like over 120 million conversations, v…”

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