Mercedes moves its in-car voice assistant onto the car itself
Mercedes-Benz has begun pushing Liquid AI's on-device language models to cars in North America by over-the-air update, with cloud models kept as the fallback.
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Cartesia launches Managed Agents, a voice agent platform it says tops independent benchmarks
Cartesia says its Managed Agents voice platform ranks first of 30 agents on Artificial Analysis's Speech Agent Arena, at $0.03 a minute at launch.
Deepgram to acquire Daily, the company behind open-source voice agent framework Pipecat
Deepgram is acquiring Daily, maker of the Pipecat voice agent framework, and says Pipecat will stay open source under an independent foundation.
NatWest starts rolling out its in-house voice AI for spending insights
NatWest's CAIRO team has put a real-time, voice-to-voice spending assistant built on its own small models in front of RBS customers, with NatWest next.
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