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Sudarshan Kamath

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Can someone explain to him that this isn’t quality time?

Can someone explain to him that this isn’t quality time?

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We have passed the Turing test for Voice AI and raised $13M in Series A funding to bring the next generation of Voice to enterprises.

We have passed the Turing test for Voice AI and raised $13M in Series A funding to bring the next generation of Voice to enterprises.

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what scaling without burnout looks like:

what scaling without burnout looks like:

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She deserves her moment. So do your customers. Let humans be humans. Try Smallest AI Voice Agents!

She deserves her moment. So do your customers. Let humans be humans. Try Smallest AI Voice Agents!

Sudarshan Kamath

1,716,525 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Fundraise Announcement! We are proud to announce that we at smallest.ai have raised 8M USD in an oversubscribed seed round led by SIERRA Ventures with participation from 3one4 Capital, Better, Upsparks Capital, Schema Ventures, DeVC, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, peercheque, shyamal, Mission Street Capital, Boris Wertz, raveen, and many more angels to build the future of Enterprise Voice AI! We are transforming voice AI from the ground up - pushing agents to pass the Turing test in the coming years. We are also excited to build a research-first organization - diving into the depths of problems from first principles and doing things no one in the world is even thinking about. It was our dream to build a scientific team that pushes the boundaries of the frontier. We are privileged to have the support of some of the best early backers a founder could ever ask for. Thank you, everyone for supporting us - this is just the beginning!

Fundraise Announcement! We are proud to announce that we at smallest.ai have raised 8M USD in an oversubscribed seed round led by SIERRA Ventures with participation from 3one4 Capital, Better, Upsparks Capital, Schema Ventures, DeVC, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, peercheque, shyamal, Mission Street Capital, Boris Wertz, raveen, and many more angels to build the future of Enterprise Voice AI! We are transforming voice AI from the ground up - pushing agents to pass the Turing test in the coming years. We are also excited to build a research-first organization - diving into the depths of problems from first principles and doing things no one in the world is even thinking about. It was our dream to build a scientific team that pushes the boundaries of the frontier. We are privileged to have the support of some of the best early backers a founder could ever ask for. Thank you, everyone for supporting us - this is just the beginning!

Sudarshan Kamath

680,118 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

OpenAI's S2S preview is polished but it still thinks in steps. Speech → text → model → text → speech. That's not how humans converse. Introducing Hydra. A native speech-to-speech model that doesn't wait for turn-taking, doesn't flatten emotion into text, and doesn't break when you interrupt it mid-sentence. Hydra reasons asynchronously, speaks and listens simultaneously, and preserves emotion because it never leaves the audio domain. It's still in beta, but the shift is obvious. If you want early access, the link is in the comments. Here's a preview of what that looks like -

OpenAI's S2S preview is polished but it still thinks in steps. Speech → text → model → text → speech. That's not how humans converse. Introducing Hydra. A native speech-to-speech model that doesn't wait for turn-taking, doesn't flatten emotion into text, and doesn't break when you interrupt it mid-sentence. Hydra reasons asynchronously, speaks and listens simultaneously, and preserves emotion because it never leaves the audio domain. It's still in beta, but the shift is obvious. If you want early access, the link is in the comments. Here's a preview of what that looks like -

Sudarshan Kamath

329,032 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

Introducing Lightning V3 - it beats every model we tested against. ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI. Lightning sets a new SOTA with V3 in conversational text-to-speech. → Highest MOS score for conversational TTS at 3.9 → ~76% win rate vs gpt-4o-mini-tts on naturalness → 15 languages with mid-sentence code-switching → Built from scratch for voice agents, not read-aloud Every TTS model sounds clean in a demo. You type a sentence and you get beautiful audio. Voice agents don't work that way. They stream. They're generating audio in real-time chunks with half the context missing. That's where everything breaks. A great reading voice and a great conversational voice are fundamentally different things. A conversational voice has to sound like it's thinking - with the pauses, the rhythm shifts, the reactions. It has to handle the way real people actually talk, including switching languages mid-sentence. That's what V3 does. V3.1 also ships voice cloning. 5 to 15 seconds of audio, no fine-tuning, production-grade clone across 15 languages. Blog link in the comments.

Introducing Lightning V3 - it beats every model we tested against. ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI. Lightning sets a new SOTA with V3 in conversational text-to-speech. → Highest MOS score for conversational TTS at 3.9 → ~76% win rate vs gpt-4o-mini-tts on naturalness → 15 languages with mid-sentence code-switching → Built from scratch for voice agents, not read-aloud Every TTS model sounds clean in a demo. You type a sentence and you get beautiful audio. Voice agents don't work that way. They stream. They're generating audio in real-time chunks with half the context missing. That's where everything breaks. A great reading voice and a great conversational voice are fundamentally different things. A conversational voice has to sound like it's thinking - with the pauses, the rhythm shifts, the reactions. It has to handle the way real people actually talk, including switching languages mid-sentence. That's what V3 does. V3.1 also ships voice cloning. 5 to 15 seconds of audio, no fine-tuning, production-grade clone across 15 languages. Blog link in the comments.

Sudarshan Kamath

71,298 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

You don't need a trillion-parameter model that understands physics to answer a customer support call. But that's not even the main reason we build small models. The real one: LLMs store everything. Literally everything all of it sitting in the weights. Humans don't work that way, and your agent shouldn't either. Full podcast, link in thread.

You don't need a trillion-parameter model that understands physics to answer a customer support call. But that's not even the main reason we build small models. The real one: LLMs store everything. Literally everything all of it sitting in the weights. Humans don't work that way, and your agent shouldn't either. Full podcast, link in thread.

Sudarshan Kamath

19,950 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

Announcing... Voice x Memory! We’re unpacking what makes agents listen, respond, and remember, or sometimes forget, and what that means for building better voice systems. We will move towards a world of large LLMs remembering a lot of information to smaller LMs with finite real-time intelligence and infinite memory. Here's a short teaser as we walk down the streets of SF having a chat with @shortkingceo on how we see the future

Announcing... Voice x Memory! We’re unpacking what makes agents listen, respond, and remember, or sometimes forget, and what that means for building better voice systems. We will move towards a world of large LLMs remembering a lot of information to smaller LMs with finite real-time intelligence and infinite memory. Here's a short teaser as we walk down the streets of SF having a chat with @shortkingceo on how we see the future

Sudarshan Kamath

23,599 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

On the streets of San Francisco, I met this really cool researcher going to NeurIPS from smallest.ai who is working on the intersection between speech models and gravitational lensing! Link to the paper below!

On the streets of San Francisco, I met this really cool researcher going to NeurIPS from smallest.ai who is working on the intersection between speech models and gravitational lensing! Link to the paper below!

Sudarshan Kamath

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Keeps impressing - honestly, I can't believe how human it sounds!

Keeps impressing - honestly, I can't believe how human it sounds!

Sudarshan Kamath

16,661 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Happy 4th of July from team Smallest

Happy 4th of July from team Smallest

Sudarshan Kamath

15,967 просмотров • 1 год назад

The latest YC X25 success story - Bluejay Watch how Faraz and Rohan built a product with 6 figure revenues in record time! Link in Thread 👇🏿

The latest YC X25 success story - Bluejay Watch how Faraz and Rohan built a product with 6 figure revenues in record time! Link in Thread 👇🏿

Sudarshan Kamath

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