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Cartesia
State-space-model research lab; ships real-time voice models.
| Type | AGI-focused startups |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Karan Goel, Albert Gu |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, US |
| Website | cartesia.ai |
Cartesia hiring
Cartesia lists 24 open roles on its Ashby job board today, and 7 of them are research, model, training or inference roles. Top locations: *HQ - San Francisco, CA (22), London (2).
- Inference Engineer*HQ - San Francisco, CA
- Researcher, Models*HQ - San Francisco, CA
- Researcher, Models (UK)London
- Applied Researcher, Audio*HQ - San Francisco, CA
- Researcher, Evals*HQ - San Francisco, CA
- Researcher, Post Training*HQ - San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)*HQ - San Francisco, CA
Source: Cartesia careers (Ashby), read 2 Nov 2026. All research roles at tracked labs.
Cartesia funding filings
We found no Form D filed by Cartesia itself under this name. Many labs raise through foreign entities or file under a different legal name.
Investment vehicles named after Cartesia
1 special-purpose vehicles carrying the Cartesia name have filed a Form D, 0 of them in the last 12 months. SPVs pool money from smaller investors to buy into one company, often on the secondary market, so a rising count is a sign of investor demand.
- Cartesia AI Apr 2024 a Series of CGF2021 LLC1 May 2024
Source: SEC EDGAR full-text search for "Cartesia AI", Form D. Name matches can include unrelated filers; tell us if one is wrong.
Cartesia models
Latest releases
- cartesia-ai/hnet_2stage_XL_code11 Jul 2025
- cartesia-ai/hnet_2stage_XL_chinese11 Jul 2025
- cartesia-ai/hnet_2stage_XL11 Jul 2025
- cartesia-ai/hnet_1stage_XL11 Jul 2025
- cartesia-ai/hnet_2stage_L11 Jul 2025
- cartesia-ai/hnet_1stage_L11 Jul 2025
Most downloaded
- cartesia-ai/Llamba-1B204 downloads (30 days)
- cartesia-ai/Rene-v0.1-1.3b-pytorch127 downloads (30 days)
- cartesia-ai/Llamba-8B38 downloads (30 days)
- cartesia-ai/Llamba-3B34 downloads (30 days)
- cartesia-ai/Llamba-8B-untied16 downloads (30 days)
Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation cartesia-ai, read 2 Nov 2026.
Cartesia: quick answers
Is Cartesia hiring?
Yes. Cartesia had 24 open roles on its job board on 2 Nov 2026, including 7 research and model roles.
Who founded Cartesia?
Cartesia was founded in 2023 by Karan Goel, Albert Gu.
People at Cartesia
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