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Hugging Face and Cerebras demo a modular voice agent with fast Gemma 4 inference

This modular voice demo uses open components around a hosted Cerebras Gemma 4 endpoint. Developers can replace that endpoint with local inference, but the published demo is not an offline deployment.
⚑Jointly published content; the speed figures are from third-party benchmarks it cites. Mechanism details are drawn from the public repository's source code.
The problem

Voice AI's bottleneck today is speed

Model quality is already good enough — the answers are correct. What actually breaks the experience is latency: you finish a sentence, and it takes a few seconds of silence before anything comes back.

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