Block launches Dessa, an AI voice model small enough to run on a MacBook
Polymarket · x · 2026-10-24
Polymarket reports that Jack Dorsey's Block has launched "Dessa," an AI voice model trained entirely on speech that is reportedly small enough to run locally on a MacBook, taking an on-device inference approach.
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