Turns out it was a rug-pull
They open-sourced a crippled version of sesame (1B)
not the one they're using in actual demo
They open-sourced a crippled version of sesame (1B)
not the one they're using in actual demo
Which is a shame because seems like there's a real opportunity to really shake things up with an open voice model that's competitive with the proprietary ones.
Oh well. Someone else will do what they claimed to want to do.