{"id":1147,"date":"2025-03-14T03:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/sesame-the-startup-behind-the-viral-virtual-assistant-maya-releases-its-base-ai-model\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T03:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:40:36","slug":"sesame-the-startup-behind-the-viral-virtual-assistant-maya-releases-its-base-ai-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/sesame-the-startup-behind-the-viral-virtual-assistant-maya-releases-its-base-ai-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI company\u00a0Sesame\u00a0has released the base model that powers Maya, the\u00a0impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (\u201cparameters\u201d referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions. Called CSM-1B, the model generates \u201cRVQ audio codes\u201d from text [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI company\u00a0Sesame\u00a0has released the base model that powers Maya, the\u00a0impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (\u201cparameters\u201d referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions. Called CSM-1B, the model generates \u201cRVQ audio codes\u201d from text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:14:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}