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Alex Smola, former AWS scientist and founder of Boson AI, is launching Higgs RealTime, a speech-to-speech model targeting enterprise voice AI.
The pitch is straightforward. One-tenth the cost of competitors like OpenAI and Meta, aimed at finance and healthcare clients who need practical automation.
The voice AI market is shifting toward full-duplex systems that enable fluid, natural conversations rather than turn-based exchanges. Smola's approach promises automation that outperforms human teams in speed and consistency.
This is the multimodal play. Voice combined with other inputs, deployed where latency and cost matter. Enterprise clients don't need flashy demos. They need reliable systems that handle thousands of concurrent conversations without breaking the budget.
The question is whether Boson can deliver on the cost claims at scale. Voice inference is expensive. If they've solved the efficiency problem, the enterprise market is waiting.
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2026-07-27 13:08:57 CESTEvent JSON
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