Alexander Haque

I'm super excited about PersonaPlex and that whole research direction, but it's definitely a research model and not a model you could use yet in production. It's a very small model compared to the ones we use to build voice agents, doesn't have tool calling, and isn't set up to support context engineering. But the PersonaPlex paper is very much worth reading. And the original paper that details the Moshi architecture that PersonaPlex builds on was my favorite paper of 2024. It's so, so good. kyutai.org/Moshi.pdf The Moshi research team is doing work at both the non-profit @kyutai_labs and a new startup, @GradiumAI.

NVIDIA just dropped PersonaPlex-7B 🤯 A full-duplex voice model that listens and talks at the same time. No pauses. No turn-taking. Real conversation. 100% open source. Free. Voice AI just leveled up. huggingface.co/nvidia/persona…

There’s been a lot of noise the past few days about @theinformation article on @kontigo_app which falsely claims JPMorgan closed our accounts for “compliance reasons.” We appreciate the free PR. But at Kontigo Inc., we don’t tolerate lies or lazy reporting. We take defamation seriously. 1) Kontigo does not hold licenses or special regulatory authorizations anywhere. We’re a self-custodial tech company built on permissionless infrastructure, local stablecoins, and zero-knowledge proofs (which can enable on-chain usage without KYC). For fiat rails, we partner with licensed providers in every region we launch in. We’ve never relied on a failing banking system as a single point of failure. 2) The real story: @checkbook One of our U.S. Virtual Account partners was a company called Checkbook. They told us repeatedly (over email, Slack, and in the commercial agreement), that they could offer U.S. virtual accounts to businesses and individuals globally, including venezuelan migrants, as long as they passed the KYC/KYB process. 3) We weren’t the only ones cut off by Checkbook and JPM with zero notice. Kontigo isn’t the only stablecoin startup affected by Checkbook’s nonexistent support, compliance, and ops team. They’ve been the worst infrastructure provider we’ve worked with, and now they’re feeding the press claims that simply don’t match reality. Example: “JPMorgan saw a sharp rise in disputed account transactions, known as reversals and chargebacks.” —> We never had chargeback issues with Checkbook. We didn’t even have card on-ramps with them. So the “chargebacks” narrative is fiction. What’s even more concerning: 'The Information' repeatedly amplified unverified claims and third-party narratives as if they were facts. @MichaelRoddan 4) Yes, there are plenty of public examples of JPMorgan closing crypto-related accounts, like @jackmallers recent situation. (Or Chase bank acceptance rate for crypto related transactions). There’s a pattern here, and people in this industry have seen it. Kontigo will keep building the largest (DeFi) bank in the world. We’ll build a better financial system, for everyone. We won’t stop.