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Dessa

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Intro

Dessa is a recently tracked product, model, or tool in public channels. The radar excerpt reads:

Block (Jack Dorsey) AI lab unveiled Dessa on Oct 23: full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained from scratch only on human conversation audio (no text, no pretrained models); backchannels/interrupts, hears emotion/sarcasm/laughter; runs faster than real time locally on MacBook Pro M4 Max; trained on one NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. Research preview + waitlist, early access for AI safety researchers; no weights/API yet. X News story 'Block Unveils Dessa' (x.com/i/trending/2113702132981600476); The Verge, Unite.AI coverage; block.xyz/inside/you-learned-to-talk-by-listening-so-did-dessa.

The recorded source label is x. Use the public URL below to verify the original post or page.

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Explain

Based only on the excerpt, Dessa should be understood from the facts stated there. This write-up does not invent funding amounts, model sizes, or leaderboard scores that are absent from the excerpt or URL metadata.

Confirmable points from the excerpt:

  • Block (Jack Dorsey) AI lab unveiled Dessa on Oct 23: full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained from scratch only on human conversation audio (no text, no pretrained models); backchannels/interrupts, hears emotion/sarcasm/laughter; runs faster than real time locally on MacBook Pro M4 Max; trained on one NVIDIA GB200 NVL72.

  • Research preview + waitlist, early access for AI safety researchers; no weights/API yet.

  • X News story 'Block Unveils Dessa' (x.com/i/trending/2113702132981600476); The Verge, Unite.AI coverage; block.xyz/inside/you-learned-to-talk-by-listening-so-did-dessa.

The radar score for this entry is 0.85 (an internal ranking field, not a third-party benchmark score).

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Usage

To learn more or try Dessa, start from public sources:

  1. Open the source link: https://block.xyz/dessa and check the official description and availability.

  2. Follow any access path mentioned in the excerpt (API, open weights, waitlist, in-product entry) using official instructions.

  3. Before production use, verify license terms, regional availability, and safety limits yourself; do not assume quotas, prices, or eval scores that the excerpt does not state.