Full-stack enterprise voice AI platform Smallest.ai plans to channel its freshly raised $8 million seed funding into building its next-generation multimodal model, ‘Hydra’, and expanding its presence across India and the United States. The round was led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from 3one4 Capital and Better Capital.

Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Sudarshan Kamath, Founder and CEO of Smallest.ai, said the company will direct half of the funds towards research and model development. “We are releasing a model called Hydra. It is a multimodal speech-and-text-in, speech-and-text-out model that’s going to be full duplex and work in real time. Half of this capital will go into training Hydra and making sure it’s robust enough for enterprise use cases,” he said.

The other half of the fundi

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