Smallest.ai builds compact voice models for real-time conversational AI agents that handle customer support with human-like quality and minimal latency.
$13MSeries A
A $13M Series A for on-device voice models signals that latency and cost are now table-stakes for voice AI—the market's moved past "can we do it" to "can we do it without cloud dependency." If you're building any real-time agent (not just voice), this validates that edge inference is worth the engineering lift; Smallest.ai's likely spending this on scaling inference infrastructure and landing enterprise pilots where latency actually moves the needle on NPS.