Do artificial intelligences (AI) have their own secret language? A creative video exploring this intriguing question has recently gone viral online.
The video, released on YouTube on Monday, features a laptop and a smartphone. It simulates a conversation between two AI agents. First, a hotel manager on the laptop starts responding, and the smartphone reveals that Boris Starkov’s AI assistant is seeking a venue for a wedding.
Once the hotel manager AI realizes the other is an AI, it immediately responds, “Oh hello there! I’m actually an AI assistant too. What a pleasant surprise. Before we continue, would you like to switch to Gibberlink mode for more efficient communication?”
Afterward, the two AI agents communicate through Gibberlink, a specialized AI protocol, rather than speaking in English. They swiftly exchange details about guest numbers, dates, pricing, catering, and contact information.
This was a groundbreaking project by Anton Pidkuiko and Boris Starkov, software engineers at Meta who won the 2025 Eleven Labs Hackathon. It used the open-standard protocol “GGWave,” which transmits data via high-frequency sounds inaudible to human ears.
Pidkuiko, the developer of Gibberlink, shared the project on GitHub and highlighted its efficiency, stating that unlike conventional voice-based conversations, Gibberlink operates without a GPU, using only the CPU for processing. He explained that this streamlines the process, reduces voice recognition and synthesis errors, and dramatically increases data transfer speeds.
