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Block Announces Dessa Speech-to-Speech AI, Plans Early Access for Safety Researchers

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Block announced Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model, and plans to give a small group of AI safety researchers early access. The Dessa team says the model was trained from scratch solely on human conversation and can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max “or better.” Block’s shared demos show mostly natural exchanges with humans, alongside occasional awkward or uncanny moments.

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Block announces Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model trained on human conversationThe Verge · AI

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  1. The Verge · AI
    Block announces Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model trained on human conversation

    Jack Dorsey’s Block announced Dessa, an AI model trained from scratch solely on human conversation. The team describes it as a speech-to-speech model that can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max “or better,” while shared demos show mostly natural exchanges with occasional awkward moments. Block plans to give a small group of AI safety researchers early access.

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