Voice AI Startup Smallest.ai Raises $13M Series A
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-08-04
Voice AI startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 million in Series A funding. The company focuses on building ultra-fast voice agents by relying on smaller, specialized models rather than massive general-purpose ones, achieving more natural voice interactions and significantly lower latency.
In other news, Amazon is now mandating that sellers disclose AI-generated realistic images of people to comply with new US transparency rules.
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