# 11 Cameras, Dozens of Mics: The AI That Reads the Room

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Podcast: [Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering](https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents)
Published: 2026-08-27T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Tormod Ree is the chief product and engineering officer at Neat, the Zoom-backed video hardware company putting 11 or more cameras and dozens of microphones into a single meeting room. He explains how Neat's edge models read a room in real time, why the orchestration harness matters more than the models, and how the company trains computer vision without ever touching customer meeting data.

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