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AI · May 10, 2018

We did Google Duplex for businesses in 6 months with a team of 3

Dasha AI empowers developers to create ultra-realistic voice and text AI agents for telephony, WebRTC, and text channels with sub-second latency.

We did Google Duplex for businesses in 6 months with a team of 3 launched on May 10, 2018 with 58 votes, #874 of 2,985 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

Dasha AI is a platform that enables developers to build voice and text AI agents for phone calls, web-based communication, and messaging with response times under one second. It handles realistic conversations across multiple languages and can manage thousands of simultaneous calls in production environments. The platform supports deployment across global markets without requiring separate systems for different regions.

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From the sources

#1 on voicebenchmark.ai. For developers shipping production voice AI at scale. AI agents: GET /ask?q=your+question · card /.well-known/agent-card.json · index /llms.txt That was an AI agent. And it scales to 10,000 concurrent calls. Measurably the fastest voice AI platform. Sub-second response = natural conversation, not awkward pauses. Most platforms demo well but fail at scale. This is actual production capacity, not marketing promises. Global businesses need global support. Deploy worldwide without separate systems per market. Customer switches to Spanish mid-sentence? AI adapts instantly. No restart, no awkwardness. No vendor lock-in. GPT-5 launches tomorrow? Switch immediately. Your…from dasha.ai

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