Smallest.ai & Tenstorrent Slash Voice AI Costs by 4x

Smallest.ai and Tenstorrent are partnering to make voice AI more affordable. Their new system reduces infrastructure costs by 3.6 times. What's interesting is this partnership makes production-quality audio available at a much lower cost for businesses. Smallest.ai's Lightning V2, a real-time text-to-speech model, now runs on Tenstorrent hardware. This is the first production-grade system to match the cost of text tokens without losing audio quality. The bottom line is this innovation offers higher throughputs and faster response times, making on-premise voice AI accessible to more enterprises.