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Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI model trained on "nothing but human conversation" that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Jay Peters / The Verge: Block unveils Dessa, a “true speech-to-speech” AI model trained on “nothing but human conversation” that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer — You have got to listen to these conversations with Block's new Dessa AI model.
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