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How an ex-AWS scientist plans to take on OpenAI and Meta in voice AI models

As the founder of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Boson AI, a startup that is set to release its first speech-to-speech model named Higgs RealTime, Smola says voice models have finally reached the threshold needed to drive the next leap in…

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As the founder of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Boson AI, a startup that is set to release its first speech-to-speech model named Higgs RealTime, Smola says voice models have finally reached the threshold needed to drive the next leap in human-machine interaction. A former distinguished scientist at Amazon and a leading machine learning researcher, he launched Boson after recognizing that the industry was moving beyond text-only interfaces. This is driven by the belief that multimodal AI, including audio and vision, delivers a far richer user experience.

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