FlashLabs AI Releases: Chroma 1.0

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one FlashLabs release so far: Chroma 1.0 on Jan 22, 2026. FlashLabs Chroma 1.0: open-source real-time speech-to-speech under 150ms. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.

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Chroma 1.0

FlashLabs Chroma 1.0: open-source real-time speech-to-speech under 150ms

FlashLabs released Chroma 1.0, billed as the world's first open-source end-to-end real-time speech-to-speech model with voice cloning under 150ms latency. The 4B parameter model is built on Qwen 2.5 Omni and released under Apache 2; its live demo with RAG and document upload impressed the whole panel.