Smallest.ai 获 1300 万美元融资，开发类人实时语音模型
Smallest.ai 用专用小模型降低语音 AI 延迟，让机器对话更像真人，并获 1300 万美元融资。
AI 客服虽能解决问题，但人们一听就知道对面是机器。Smallest.ai 认为，下一步不是让大模型更快，而是用专为对话设计的小模型（一种更轻量、专注特定任务的模型），实现听、想、说同时进行，让语音交互几乎无延迟。公司近日完成 1300 万美元 A 轮融资，总融资超 2100 万美元。
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While AI agents are increasingly capable of solving customer support problems, most people can still tell immediately when they’re talking to a machine instead of a human. [Smallest.ai](https://smallest.ai/), a startup founded in late 2024, is betting the next leap in voice agents will not come from making large language models faster, but from using smaller, specialized models built for human conversation. Simply put, the company wants to make speaking to an AI agent indistinguishable from talking to a human. To do so, it’s developing a small voice model designed to mimic how humans process information by listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously. “While I’m speaking to you, you’re already thinking, and you might interrupt me if I talk for too long,” Sudarshan Kamath (pictured left…