New start up from the founders of Oculus, Ubiquity6, and former Meta Reality Labs focusing on direct voice-to-voice AI chat (as opposed to voice-to-text / text-to-voice), challenging Open AI and Grok 3.
They've put up a demo here:
, it seems quite impressive. They promise to open source the model, which is smart considering what's been happening. The start up is backed financially by Marc Andreessen among others. Presuming their open source version isn't crippled, this could lead to wide adoption; too bad a Chinese lab didn't get to it first.