Sesame launches its voice-companion iOS app in public preview
Confirmed
The takeaway
Sesame, the Oculus co-founders’ conversational-voice startup behind the viral Maya/Miles demo and the open CSM-1B model, released a free public-preview iOS app on 2026-05-28 in 39 countries.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra28 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen58 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It is after the cutoff of GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Hydrogen, and can be in the training data of Claude Opus 5.5 and Grok 4.7.
Key facts
- Four agents: Maya, Miles, Simone, Charlie; 39 countries; free at launch; possible waitlist
- Company raised a $250M Series B (Oct 2025, Sequoia and Spark)
- Open model: sesame/csm-1b (Apache-2.0, March 2025)
What happened
After a year of web demos and a closed beta, Sesame shipped its natural-sounding voice companions as a consumer iPhone app.
Why it matters
Sesame’s early-2025 demo reset expectations for conversational voice realism. The app tests whether voice-first companions become a daily habit before Sesame’s planned glasses hardware.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 2 primary, 1 press
Primary
- Sesamesesame.com, official
- Hugging Face: sesame/csm-1bhuggingface.co, code
Press
- TechCrunch: Sesame launches its iOS apptechcrunch.com, press
Changes
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