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Jack Dorsey’s Block Introduces Dessa, an Emotionally Expressive Voice AI That Runs Locally

Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Dessa, a new voice model from its research lab that runs locally and produces strikingly human expressions such as laughter, pauses and crying. The company said the model was trained entirely on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU rack. Dessa i…

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  1. 2026-10-25 16:38 · AI Insider
    Jack Dorsey’s Block Introduces Dessa, an Emotionally Expressive Voice AI That Runs Locally

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