Boson AI founder Alex Smola believes voice models are ready to take AI, and human-machine interaction, to the next level.
Source: [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/ex-aws-scientist-alex-smola-boson-ai-speech-to-speech-voice-model/)
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It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
When AI developers can’t contain their own creations, they need to stop — end of story.
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, and charges for the wiring around them.
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