Block launches Dessa, an AI voice model trained on human speech that supports natural conversations and runs locally on a ...

Jack Dorsey’s Block announced an AI model called Dessa that’s trained “from scratch on nothing but human conversation,” and ...

Every company deploying an AI voice agent has made the same bet, whether they realize it or not. They’ve let the model design their customer conversation. The goals are clear: collect the caller’s ...

The messages people type into popular AI chatbots do not always vanish once the conversation ends. On many consumer services, those exchanges can be used to help train future versions of the ...

Block's in-house AI research lab announced Dessa on October 23, 2026, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model the company says was trained from scratch on nothing but human conversation, releasing live ...

Voice assistant and conversational AI agent developer PolyAI Ltd. today announced the release of Dialog-RSN-1, a voice dialog artificial intelligence model capable of directly perceiving and ...

OpenAI has introduced its most comprehensive artificial intelligence endeavor yet: a multimodal model that will be able to communicate to users through both text and voice. GPT-4o, which will be ...

Vanderbilt and StoryCorps have partnered to bring the initiative to campus. One Small Step pairs people with different beliefs, backgrounds and points of view to have intimate conversations and, ...