AI Tools Block’s Dessa Learned to Talk From Speech Alone and Runs on a MacBook Pro, but Access Is Waitlist Only
Block's Dessa is a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation, running locally on…
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AI Tools Grok Voice 3.0 Tops Artificial Analysis at 86.9 and Keeps $0.08 a Minute Pricing, but Still Trails GPT-Live-1 on Support Calls
SpaceXSI launched Grok Voice 3.0 on 14 Oct 2026 at $0.08 a minute, the same…
AI Tools SquadStack Opens Arth V2: Vendor Benchmark Puts 67 ms Latency First, Semantic WER 8.85 on 863 Indian Sales Calls
SquadStack made Arth V2 public on 11 Oct 2026: vendor-reported 67 ms finalize-to-response latency and…
AI Engineering 354ms to First Audio: Gemma 4 31B on LiveKit Changes the Math for Voice AI
LiveKit now hosts Gemma 4 31B with 354ms time to first audio. This open-weight model…