The conversation examples are impressive but this made me say holy shit out loud: "it runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better. And we figured out how to train Dessa on only one NVIDIA GB200 NVL72."
If it really can replicate that low latency + that expressiveness on local devices, that's one heck of an accomplishment for "indie" AI.
> it runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max
Open weights or GTFO
I mean cartesia did one of their first demos on a Mac book pro, live.
Still extremely impressive but not unheard of.
Wetware can't stop getting mogged.
By 2030 we'll have this running on old pentiums.
> that's one heck of an accomplishment for "indie" AI.
It's a nice accomplishment, but I think we have very different definitions of "indie".
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