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Financial technology company led by Jack Dorsey that has announced Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model.
Block is the company led by Jack Dorsey. In October 2026 it announced Dessa, a speech-to-speech model it says was trained only on human conversation. See our report.
Block's speech-to-speech model, described as trained from scratch on human conversation alone; early access is limited to a small group of AI safety researchers.
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Jack Dorsey's Block says Dessa learned from speech alone and can run on a MacBook Pro M4 Max. Early access goes to a small group of AI safety researchers.
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