On-Prem Voice Agents Get New Hardware Path as Smallest.ai Joins Tenstorrent

Smallest.ai has joined Tenstorrent to create a hardware path for on-premises voice agents. The collaboration aims to enable voice AI deployment on local infrastructure rather than cloud-based systems. Smallest.ai specializes in optimized voice agent technology, while Tenstorrent provides the hardware architecture needed to run such systems locally. This partnership addresses growing demand for privacy-preserving and latency-sensitive voice AI applications that don't require external connectivity or data transmission to remote servers.