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Voice AI Platform & Voice Agents

The end of artificial latency in enterprise voice.

Smallest.ai just secured $13 million in Series A funding to kill conversational lag in artificial intelligence.

As reported by TechCrunch, the late-2024 startup is abandoning massive, sluggish language models in favor of specialized, real-time voice architecture. The singular goal is absolute zero latency.

The round was led by Seligman Ventures. Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital participated, pushing total funding past $21 million. The model itself processes listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously. When queried beyond its local knowledge base, the system places callers on a brief hold to ping an offline foundational model.

Existing clients already include Truecaller and RingCentral. strictly targets enterprise customer support platforms, actively competing against ElevenLabs, Cartesia, and regional players like Sarvam.

The Architectural Shift.

Massive models create massive delays. Text chat tolerates latency. Voice requires immediate biological pacing.

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DeepSeek Is Developing Massive AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia

DeepSeek is planning a massive artificial-intelligence data center in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the matter, an ambitious move in computing infrastructure from the startup that’s shown it can compete with the leading AI models of Silicon Valley.

The Hangzhou-based company is looking to add one gigawatt worth of compute in Ulanqab, about 350 kilometers northwest of Beijing, said the people, asking not to be identified discussing private information. DeepSeek aims to build its own new facility, while leasing additional capacity from other companies, the people said. More than a dozen firms have projects planned in the city, according to a third-party compilation of local government approvals.

Abstract: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

7Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

8Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Applying the CHEST Guidelines for Management of Central Airway Obstruction

Application of guidelines to the day-to-day clinical practice of clinicians is not always straightforward. Guidelines often provide a structure to the thought process demanded during clinical decision-making, which requires the application of evidence as best suited for each individual patient. These guidelines provide recommendations and suggestions, and the weight of these recommendations relies heavily on the quality of evidence and the vote of experts in the field, when evidence is lacking or insufficient.

Astronomers finally measure the full size of the largest known galaxy

Researchers have obtained the deepest images ever taken of IC 1101, allowing them to identify the galaxy’s outer edge for the first time. The observations confirm it as the largest known galaxy, spanning roughly 520 kiloparsecs, or about 1.7 million light-years, and containing an estimated 3.4 trillion solar masses in stars. The paper was posted to the arXiv preprint server on July 16.

JCI Perm1 enhances Nrf2driven antioxidant defense through Keap1 oxidation during myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury

Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

2Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

3Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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