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Scale AI launches 'Voice Showdown' to rival OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic in Voice AI models.

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Wang left Scale AI, Inc. as CEO on Jul 1st '25.

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Scale AI launches 'Voice Showdown' to rival OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic in Voice AI models. Scale AI has released Voice Showdown, a platform for evaluating voice AI models, as it seeks to compete with rivals such as OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic. Voice Showdown is the first global preference arena for voice AI. This new methodology involves users interacting with voice models via Scale's platform ChatLab to provide a real-world context for these evaluations, the company noted in a press release. The model has two evaluation modes: Dictate, where users speak and text appears and Speech-to-Speech, a back and forth conversation. The company is in the process of developing a third mode, Full Duplex, "where interruptions, barge-ins, and overlapping speech emerge naturally and cannot be reduced to side-by-side preference judgments," the company stated. Models that can handle a diverse set of languages are a "key differentiator." This highlights the importance of understanding and responding accurately in various linguistic contexts. Join 1M+ Investors! Get Up to a 2% Bonus for Moving Your Stocks to Kraken Welcome 2026 with a Bonus of up to $500. Join eToro, Deposit, and Get a Crypto Bonus Buy Shares of Rental Homes and Vacation Rentals for $100 on This Jeff Bezos-Backed Platform Join Moomoo and Get Up to 8.1% APY on Uninvested Cash and up to $1,000 in Free Nvidia Stock "The...

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Last year, Wang stepped down as CEO of Scale to join Meta and run its Super Intelligence Labs.

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