Dessa
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.
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).
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.