Block just announced Dessa, a full-duplex AI voice model trained entirely on human speech.
No text, no pretrained models. It learned to hold real-time conversations just by listening.
Block says it's the first AI you can have a live conversation with that was trained only from human speech.
Now inviting AI safety researchers to explore what it can and can't do.
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