←Back to NewsAI News/LlmsmodelLlmsAgentsDaily's PhoneLLM Matches GPT Quality at 94% Lower Cost for Voice AgentsPipecat released PhoneLLM Alpha 1, a 30B Mamba-Transformer MoE fine-tuned for voice phone agents with sub-100ms TTFT and $0.00025 per agent-minute.SourceAlphaSignalPublishedAug 24, 2026, 6:47 PMAuthorAlphaSignal NewsroomRead1 min readPipecat released PhoneLLM Alpha 1, a 30B Mamba-Transformer MoE fine-tuned for voice phone agents with sub-100ms TTFT and $0.00025 per agent-minute.Reporting is indexed from AlphaSignal. Rights remain with the original publisher and cited sources.Read original report ↗Next readsAlphaSignal · modelTokenRhythm's NeoHorse-1 Beats Its Base Model by 6 Points on Agentic BenchmarksOpenAI · newsOpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Hits 99.9% on AGI Benchmarks and Runs Your ComputerAdham Khaled · deep-diveCoding Agent Cost: Why Sessions Get Expensive
