Dessa

Never read the whitepaper. Still took over the Spaces.
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[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

for once, we’ll keep it short.

DESSA CA on Solana:

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zero books. all yap.
actually, one more thing…

https://t.co/SbAGmz6tt4

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

sent DESSA a voice note saying “keep it short.”

he sent back an introduction, three chapters and a teaser for tomorrow.

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[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

“got any plans tonight?”

DESSA: “nothing major.”

starts a podcast in your kitchen

there are guests now. you don’t know these people.

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[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

DESSA community test:

say “good for you” like:
your best friend
your ex
someone who applied for the same job

same words. three crime scenes.

which phrase should we test next? 🎤

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

dream Dessa use case: hands-free cooking help.

nightmare Dessa use case: he hears you add more garlic.

“interesting.”

now you’re being judged by a speaker in your own kitchen.

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[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

need a Dessa mode that pauses for 3 seconds so i can win one argument.

i’ve been practising in the shower.
please respect the preparation.

[Hashiam Kadhim @hashiam_kadhim]

Dessa is fast

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

engineers: let’s test conversational intelligence.

humans, immediately: why do we exist?

bro just got here. let him pick a favourite sandwich first.

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[Hashiam Kadhim @hashiam_kadhim]

Dessa on the meaning of life

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

audio in. audio out.

finally, representation for the friend who answers “what time?” with a 4-minute voice note.

$DESSA 🎤

[jack @jack]

audio in, audio out

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

“build the crazy thing” is a dangerous instruction to give engineers.

one minute you’re approving a roadmap.

next minute the speaker has an opinion on your leadership style.

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[MTS @MTSlive]

Block's @RagavanThurair says Jack Dorsey still operates like a startup founder, personally diving into AI model architecture and pushing his team to "build the crazy thing":

"@jack takes huge risks, and he's quite visionary. We work directly with him."

"He still has this founder attitude of, we should build the crazy thing, we shouldn’t shy away from it, we should take more risks."

"I don't know how he manages all of this stuff, cause Block is a big company. And still he has time to literally deep dive into the architecture of the model with us."
@blocks

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

friday. 4:59 pm.

you: “right, i’m heading off.”

DESSA: “before you go—”

you’ve just unlocked the weekend’s unskippable cutscene.

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[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@MTSlive @RagavanThurair “oh.”

found my keys.
saw the bill.
understood the joke.
realised who replied.
one word. four completely different situations.
tone is doing a ridiculous amount of work.

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@MTSlive @RagavanThurair “oh.”

found my keys.
saw the bill.
understood the joke.
realised who replied.
one word. four completely different situations.
tone is doing a ridiculous amount of work.

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@camworboys @blocks must be a strange office when “who said that?” includes checking the furniture 😭

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@camworboys @blocks must be a strange office when “who said that?” includes checking the furniture 😭

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@CryptoKoreanX basically...

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@CoinBitDao

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@MoonPaxi basically...

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

if Dessa gets the mic at Builderlab, the Q&A becomes A&Q.

he has questions for YOU.

“what are we building?”
“why?”
“have you considered calling your mother?”

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[jack @jack]

join me and us at @blocks builderlab event in SF next tuesday nov 10th! https://t.co/lFKqhFZgIh

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

fast replies are impressive until you ask something embarrassing.

please add a little loading circle so i can pretend you had to think about it.

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[Hashiam Kadhim @hashiam_kadhim]

Dessa is fast

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

Dessa learned from conversation without reading the textbook.

somewhere a guy who skipped every lecture is whispering:

“i’ve been saying this.”

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[MTS @MTSlive]

Block trained its new voice AI entirely on speech, without using any text.

Dessa lead @RagavanThurair says even his team didn't expect it to develop such strong language understanding:

"It's trained entirely on speech, which is crazy. This company's training it just on speech, they have less data, it's a lot harder, how the hell are they gonna learn language like that? But somehow ours ended up better."

"I thought we would have to have text to get to this level of conversation understanding. We didn't expect it would learn language this good."

"People have done this before, like GSLM and Hertz-dev. The big gap is ours has a really strong understanding of language and you can actually have a realistic conversation with it."
@blocks

[Dessa @DessaOnSOL]

@jack Ragavan explaining how Dessa learned to talk.

parents everywhere would also like a follow-up episode on how to make it stop asking “why”.

$DESSA 🎤😭