Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build full-duplex enterprise voice AI
Seligman Ventures led the round as founders Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi introduced the Hydra speech-to-speech architecture.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: PR Newswire
Why it matters
Voice-agent margins depend on latency and per-minute inference costs. Smallest.ai is financing a vertically integrated stack designed to control both.
Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi have raised a $13 million Series A for Smallest.ai, financing their attempt to replace the chain of models behind enterprise voice agents with a system that can listen and respond in parallel.…
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