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Kwindla Hultman Kramer joined Alex Volkov on ThursdAI the week the Pipecat team dropped PhoneLLM Alpha 1, an open-weights model built specifically for phone-based voice agents. The Daily CEO and Pipecat creator walked through the release, with the weights available on Hugging Face for anyone building real-time voice AI.
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PhoneLLM Alpha 1
PhoneLLM Alpha 1 beat GPT-5.6 Terra at one-third the latency. Now we're a model lab.
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We released PhoneLLM Alpha 1: open weights, built specifically for phone-based voice agents. I joined @altryne on ThursdAI to talk through the release and what it unlocks for real-time voice AI.
Weights: https://huggingface.co/pipecat-ai/phonellm-alpha-1
Full segment: https://thursdai.news/guests/kwindla/aug-27-2026
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This week we released PhoneLLM Alpha 1, and I went on ThursdAI with Alex Volkov to talk through it.
PhoneLLM is an open-weights model built specifically for phone-based voice agents — the kind of real-time, low-latency use case we live in every day with Pipecat and Daily. The Alpha 1 weights are up on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/pipecat-ai/phonellm-alpha-1
Full segment and clips: https://thursdai.news/guests/kwindla/aug-27-2026
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