Smallest.ai
Updated: August 02, 2026
Founders: Sudarshan Kamath, Akshat Mandloi,
Country: USA | Funding: $22M (+)
Founded: 2023
Website: https://smallest.ai
Smallest.ai builds the full-stack voice AI infrastructure behind real-time, human-like enterprise voice agents. The company wants to make speaking to an AI agent indistinguishable from talking to a human. To do so, it’s developing a small voice model designed to mimic how humans process information by listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously. The startup’s model serves as a real-time intelligence layer that enables natural customer conversations on specific topics, with virtually zero response lag. But if the model encounters a subject outside its limited knowledge base, Smallest.ai hands off the query to a large foundational model
Founded: 2023
Website: https://smallest.ai
Smallest.ai builds the full-stack voice AI infrastructure behind real-time, human-like enterprise voice agents. The company wants to make speaking to an AI agent indistinguishable from talking to a human. To do so, it’s developing a small voice model designed to mimic how humans process information by listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously. The startup’s model serves as a real-time intelligence layer that enables natural customer conversations on specific topics, with virtually zero response lag. But if the model encounters a subject outside its limited knowledge base, Smallest.ai hands off the query to a large foundational model
