Nari Labs AI Releases: Dia-1.6B

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Nari Labs release so far: Dia-1.6B on Apr 24, 2025. Nari Labs' Dia: a wild 1.6B open source TTS model that blew up Twitter. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

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Dia-1.6B

Nari Labs' Dia: a wild 1.6B open source TTS model that blew up Twitter

Nari Labs released Dia, a 1.6B parameter open-weights text-to-speech model that absolutely blew up Twitter with its expressive, emotional dialogue generation, including laughs, coughs, and multi-speaker conversations. Built by a tiny team, it punches far above its weight against commercial TTS systems and supports voice cloning, with demos available on Fal.ai.

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