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Smallest.ai Unveils Lightning V2 – World’s Fastest, Most Human-Like AI Text-to-Speech in 16+ Languages

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1 year ago

May 21, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Foundational AI company Smallest.ai today announced the launch of Lightning V2, a next-generation Text-to-Speech (TTS) model delivering exceptional voice realism, ultra-low latency, and deep customization- engineered to meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises.

Supporting over 16 languages across the US, Europe, the Middle East, and India, Lightning V2 is designed to offer hyper-realistic, multilingual voice synthesis at a third of the cost of every competitor in the market.

With 100ms streaming latency, voice cloning from just 10 seconds of audio, and seamless language switching, it enables real-time, emotionally rich voice experiences across customer support, virtual assistants, booking systems, and more.

Voice That Feels Human- At Scale

Whether it’s English with a Midwest accent, Hindi with natural pauses, or Arabic spoken with regional fluency, Lightning V2 delivers voices that are less synthetic and more realistic. Its voice cloning capabilities enable brands to create unique voice identities using a few seconds of sample audio-making it easy to replicate known voices or create localized personas for different regions.

One enterprise customer reported over 50% reduction in call drops and a 70% increase in average call time after switching to Lightning V2- attributing the change to the more natural and trustworthy sound of the new voices.

Built for the Real Demands of Modern Enterprises

Beyond voice quality, Lightning V2 is built on Smallest.ai’s Full-Stack Voice AI Platform, a system where the AI model, infrastructure, and application layer are developed in-house. This allows for deep adaptability and control, especially for teams building dynamic voice products.

What is Full-Stack Voice AI?

It means businesses get not just a voice model- but a system that learns, adapts, and evolves with usage. Whether you’re powering support lines or integrating into AI agents, Lightning V2 ensures voice responses can flex with context and complexity.

With Lightning V2, businesses can:

Switch prompts on the fly as conversations move through different stagesTune speech outputs for specific domains like fintech, healthcare, or educationIdentify errors in real time and adjust without full model retraining

Its streaming-first architecture, low time-to-first-byte (TTFB), and real-time responsiveness make it ideal for developers building interactive voice systems that need to feel intuitive and immediate.

Why Lightning V2 Stands Out:

16+ supported languages including English (US, UK, Indian), Hindi, Arabic, German, Tamil, Telugu, and more100ms streaming latency for real-time dialogue applicationsFluent handling of numbers, currency, and special charactersOn-premise support for high-compliance environments

“Conversations aren’t static. They have stages, emotions, and shifts in intent,” said Sudarshan Kamath, Co-founder of Smallest.ai. “Our platform gives teams the tools to adapt the AI mid-conversation, not just before deployment. That’s the difference between good voice automation and great customer experience.”

And because Smallest.ai trains its own models and controls the application layer, businesses get end-to-end visibility and customization, something rarely available in off-the-shelf AI products.

About Smallest.ai

Smallest.ai was founded in 2023 by Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi, after years of building AI for electric vehicles, autonomous systems, and drones across the US, EU, Japan, and India. Their mission is to create foundational multi-modal AI that works in the real world, not just in the lab.

Smallest.ai was founded to answer a simple question: “why do a billion humans not speak to AI every single day?“

From voice interfaces to real-world deployment tools, every product we build brings us closer to making AI more human, accessible, and intuitive- across languages, accents, and cultures.

The company is backed by leading investors including 3one4 Capital, Better Capital, Upsparks Capital, Aarthi Ramamurthy, Michele Attisani, Peercheque, Global DeVC, Tiny VC, and a host of other global angels.

With Lightning V2, Smallest.ai takes a major step toward building intelligent, adaptable, and deeply human voice experiences—redefining how businesses interact with their customers, employees, and systems.

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Monnit Introduces NIST Detachable Leads to Streamline Compliance Monitoring

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39 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

New hot-swappable lead architecture reduces downtime, simplifies recertification, and helps organizations maintain continuous monitoring.

SALT LAKE CITY, June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Monnit announced new NIST Standard and Low Temperature and Humidity Detachable Leads for compatible ALTA® Sensor Bases designed to simplify sensor recertification, reduce downtime, and support continuous compliance monitoring.

“Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between maintaining compliance and operational continuity,” said Brad Walters, Founder and CEO of Monnit. “Our detachable lead architecture allows customers to hot-swap certified leads in minutes while preserving traceability and keeping trusted monitoring programs running.”

Each NIST Detachable Lead is uniquely calibrated and designed to support traceability requirements aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards.

Rather than removing and shipping an entire sensor for recertification, customers can disconnect only the lead, connect a certified replacement, and send the original lead for recalibration. This approach is ideal for pharmaceuticals, healthcare facilities, laboratories, food storage operations, manufacturing environments, and other applications that require calibration records.

In addition to these hot-swappable, removable leads or cables with probes, we offer short Monnit Standard Temperature and Humidity Detachable Non-Leaded Probes that you can connect to compatible sensor bases.

Each NIST Detachable Lead or Probe connects to compatible ALTA Industrial and Enterprise Sensor Bases via sealed, keyed M8 6-pin connectors designed for field installation. Embedded memory within the lead stores unique lead and sensor identification, calibration data, certification information, and traceability records.

Key features and benefits include:

Hot-swappable lead replacement that minimizes downtime and monitoring interruptionsNIST-traceable calibration support and ISO 17025-accredited lab certificationSupport for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 workflows and audit programsAutomatic synchronization of calibration information with iMonnit® SoftwareLogging of lead connection and disconnection events in iMonnitHot-swapping capability while powered on or off for easier servicing

Monnit and its accredited lab partner, Sensor Calibrations, provide 25-month certificates for NIST Detachable Standard Temperature Leads and 13-month certificates for NIST Detachable Low Temperature and Humidity Leads.

Compatible ALTA Sensor Bases automatically recognize connected lead types and maintain digital maintenance records, helping organizations avoid monitoring gaps caused by traditional recertification.

About Monnit Corporation
The origin story of the Internet of Things (IoT) begins with Monnit. Before our inception in 2010, we were already at the forefront of embedding technology into machines and devices to enable them to talk and deliver valuable data to business leaders. Monnit Remote Monitoring Solutions for nearly any industry use case have delivered 72B+ data points in 130+ countries for 90K+ customers. Monnit’s 80+ long-range IoT sensors remotely monitor many conditions such as temperature, light, humidity, water, vibration, pressure, and more. You can analyze data using iMonnit cloud software and get alerts via email, text, push notification, or call when our sensors detect a change you should know.

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Monnit Introduces NIST Detachable Leads to Streamline Compliance Monitoring

Published

39 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

New hot-swappable lead architecture reduces downtime, simplifies recertification, and helps organizations maintain continuous monitoring.

Each NIST Detachable Lead is uniquely calibrated and designed to support traceability requirements aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards.

Key features and benefits include:

Compatible ALTA Sensor Bases automatically recognize connected lead types and maintain digital maintenance records, helping organizations avoid monitoring gaps caused by traditional recertification.

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deepset Joins HPE’s Unleash AI Program to Accelerate Sovereign Agentic AI

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39 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — deepset, the company behind Haystack, the production-ready open-source AI agent framework and platform, today announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program to help government, defense, and regulated enterprises deploy production-grade AI systems in sovereign, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments.

As part of the collaboration, deepset will leverage the Haystack Enterprise Platform, deepset’s platform for building, orchestrating, and governing AI agents and applications, and HPE’s AI ecosystem and infrastructure portfolio to help organizations rapidly identify and operationalize high-value AI use cases while reducing deployment complexity and risk. This enables customers to access AI-ready infrastructure, strategic guidance, and accelerated pilot execution to address their most challenging AI adoption and operationalization needs.

Together, the companies enable organizations to deploy AI agents, multi-agent systems, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on self-hosted, sovereign, and air-gapped infrastructure while maintaining full ownership over sensitive and classified data, models, and AI operations.

Customers can leverage the joint architecture to operationalize governed AI applications faster while maintaining the security, compliance, and deployment flexibility required for sovereign and mission-critical environments.

The HPE Unleash AI partner program is a curated ecosystem, combining ISV solutions that go through comprehensive validation testing with engineered HPE AI systems, including HPE Private Cloud AI and the broader HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions, to deliver the performance, security, and scalability enterprises need for production AI. By joining the program, deepset expands access to governed AI platform capabilities designed for organizations operating in highly regulated environments, including public sector, defense, cybersecurity, and enterprise industries.

The Haystack Enterprise Platform enables organizations to:

Build and govern AI agents, multi-agent systems, and RAG applicationsDeploy AI on self-hosted, private cloud, and air-gapped infrastructureOrchestrate modular AI pipelines across models, databases, and enterprise systemsEnforce governance, auditability, and lifecycle management for production AISupport sovereign AI initiatives aligned with European and national security requirements

The collaboration builds on deepset’s experience supporting sovereign AI initiatives with organizations including the European Commission, the German Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), and other government, defense, and enterprise organizations deploying sovereign AI systems under strict governance and security requirements.

“With agentic AI moving into operational deployment, organizations need infrastructure and AI platforms they can control and trust,” said Milos Rusic, CEO and co-founder of deepset. “The challenge is getting agentic systems into production while maintaining control over infrastructure, governance, and sensitive data. Together with HPE, we’re helping customers deploy governed AI systems faster across highly regulated and mission-critical environments.”

Use cases supported through the joint architecture include:

Sovereign AI platform for public sector & regulated industry institutionsSovereign AI intelligence and decision-support systems for classified operationsCybersecurity investigation and threat analysisAI agents for technology, manufacturing, research, legal, and financial workflows

“The Unleash AI program is designed to help organizations deploy AI solutions faster and with greater operational confidence,” said Robin Braun, Vice President of AI Business Development, Hybrid Cloud, HPE. “Together, HPE and deepset are delivering secure, governed AI solutions that combine enterprise-grade infrastructure with flexible and governed AI agent capabilities to help customers operationalize AI across hybrid, sovereign, and classified environments.”

For more information, visit https://www.deepset.ai

About deepset

deepset is the company behind Haystack, the leading open-source framework and platform for building production-grade AI applications and agentic systems. deepset enables enterprises and public sector organizations to develop, deploy, and govern flexible AI applications powered by their choice of large language models, enterprise data, infrastructure, and governance policies across cloud, hybrid, and sovereign environments.

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