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October 23, 2026
model release
Block announces Dessa, a speech-to-speech model trained from scratch on human conversation
Block announced Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model it says was trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation." The team says it can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max "or better," and early access will go to a small group of AI safety researchers.