ARMING THE REBELS WITH GPUS: GRADIUM, KYUTAI, AND AUDIO AI

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Small, underfunded audio AI startups are surprisingly outperforming major tech companies in developing cutting-edge, real-time conversational audio models. This success is from audio AI being historically overlooked by big labs and demanding deep domain expertise rather than just massive compute and data. Small teams benefit from audio models being cheaper to train and thriving on clever architectural innovations.