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NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B puts a Fast Conformer speech encoder in front of Nemotron Nano v2 9B and an NVIDIA TTS decoder behind it, collapsing the ASR→LLM→TTS cascade into one model. ~450ms on smooth turn-taking, 480ms on user interruption, #2 among open full-duplex models on VoiceBench, OpenMDW 1.1 license. The genuinely new part is a separate output channel emitting tool-call scripts while audio keeps flowing, with configurable on-hold phrases the agent speaks during tool execution. (Hugging Face)
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For about a year, "run your agent locally" meant accepting a model that couldn't reliably call a tool twice in a row. That excuse is gone. Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer today: a 29.6B dense causal transformer, 52 layers, 6,656 hidden dim, with a ~1.8B ViT-...
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