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

Tenstorrent and Smallest.ai partnered to run Smallest.ai's Lightning V2 real-time text-to-speech model on Tenstorrent's Galaxy Blackhole servers, enabling on-premises voice AI with data sovereignty and lower costs. The Galaxy Blackhole platform features 32 Blackhole ASICs delivering 23 PFLOPS and supports high-volume, sensitive workloads in sectors like finance and healthcare. The collaboration offers immediate availability with usage-based pricing and no upfront fees.