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Smallest.ai Raises $13 Million to Build Faster Voice Agents

2026-07-31

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Summary

Smallest.ai raised a $13 million Series A, bringing its total funding above $21 million.
Its specialized voice model is designed to listen, think and speak at the same time.
The system handles narrow conversations itself and hands harder questions to a larger model.
The company wants enterprise voice agents to respond with almost no perceptible delay.

The question

Should customer-service bots try to sound indistinguishable from humans?

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