{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-sesame-ios-app/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-sesame-ios-app/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-05-28-sesame-ios-app","date":"2026-05-28","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Sesame launches its voice-companion iOS app in public preview","deck":null,"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.","category":"product","category_label":"Products","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Sesame","url":"https://www.sesame.com/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"sesame.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Hugging Face: sesame/csm-1b","url":"https://huggingface.co/sesame/csm-1b","type":"code","group":"primary","domain":"huggingface.co"},{"n":3,"title":"TechCrunch: Sesame launches its iOS app","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/sesame-the-conversational-ai-startup-from-oculus-founders-launches-its-ios-app/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techcrunch.com"}],"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Sesame"],"title":"Sesame launches its voice-companion iOS app (Maya, Miles, Simone, Charlie) in public preview","summary":"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. It has four voice agents (Maya, Miles, Simone, Charlie), each with its own personality and memory. An Android preview is planned and smart glasses are targeted for 2027.","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)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["voice","speech","companions","consumer"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nAfter a year of web demos and a closed beta, Sesame shipped its natural-sounding voice companions as a consumer iPhone app.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nSesame'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.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[{"id":"sesame-csm-1b","name":"Sesame CSM-1B (Conversational Speech Model)","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/sesame-csm-1b/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":28,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":58,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}