Sesame
Conversational AI voice companions
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded 2023
Sesame is a conversational AI company building voice companions and lightweight smart eyewear designed to enable natural, emotionally resonant interactions. Its Conversational Speech Model (CSM) generates speech directly from text and audio context, capturing tone, rhythm, and emotion for lifelike dialogue.
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Last Updated: March 9, 2026
Current Valuation
$1B
as of October 21, 2025 (Source)
Funding Summary
$307.6M
Total reported funding
Media Mention
June 3, 2026
PCWorld: Sesame's AI voice app is the best I've tested. That's what worries me
Announcement
June 2, 2026
IMP.NEWS: Sesame Expands Beyond Chatbots With New AI Assistant App - IMP.NEWS
OSS News & Views
May 30, 2026
Enterprise DNA: Sesame Launches Personality-Driven Voice AI Agents — Enterprise DNA
Announcement
May 29, 2026
Winbuzzer: Sesame Launches iPhone Voice AI App with Four Agents
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Key People
Core OSS Projects
Conversational Speech Model — a multimodal speech generation model that generates RVQ audio codes from text and audio inputs using a Llama backbone and audio decoder
License: Apache-2.0
Business Information
Category
Text-to-SpeechTechnologies
Generative AIMachine LearningConversational AIVoice
Sectors
Consumers
Licenses
Apache-2.0
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