Avartha launches Ava Zero, an open-model voice agent topping Sierra's tau-voice benchmark at $2.5/hour
rdesh26 · x · 2026-10-31
Startup Avartha introduced Ava Zero, a voice agent running entirely on open models served by its own inference infrastructure.
- Ranks #1 on Sierra's tau-voice benchmark with the highest task completion rate and generation quality.
- Costs just $2.5 per hour.
- The team argues open models are now at the frontier of real-time voice AI.
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