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PhoneLLM Alpha 1
PhoneLLM Alpha 1: open-weights voice-agent model at a quarter cent per minute
Daily/Pipecat released PhoneLLM Alpha 1, an open-weights post-train of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano (30B, ~3B active) built for production voice agents where thinking-token latency ruins conversations. Post-training took PhoneBench v1 from a base 28% to 72% — beating GPT-5.6 Tera at a third the latency and one-eighteenth the price — and it runs 80+ concurrent agents on a single B200 (NVFP4, with Modal), landing at about a quarter of a cent per minute. Weights are on Hugging Face.
28%→72% PhoneBench v1, from post-training alone80+ concurrent agents per B200~$0.0025 per minute runtime cost