**Together AI**, as a diamond sponsor of **NVIDIA GTC 2026**, is showcasing its latest research and product innovations at Booth #1213 in San Jose from March 16 to 19. Today’s updates focus on open-source LLMs, voice AI capabilities, production-grade inference, and AI factory infrastructure. Key announcements include **FlashAttention-4** (up to 1.3× faster than cuDNN on NVIDIA Blackwell), the open-source **ThunderAgent** for agentic workloads (delivering a 3.6× throughput improvement), the **ATLAS-2** adaptive learning speculator, and a full-featured voice AI stack supporting real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech. Together AI demonstrates how enterprises can transition from AI experiments to production deployment in minutes using its GPU clusters and inference platform.

Voice is the new keyboard, but most apps aren't listening. This guide outlines a "Voice Architect" consultancy. Use Voice Anywhere to add voice control capabilities to any existing website or SaaS platform, and TalkToText to provide high-accuracy, long-form dictation services. Learn to sell "Hands-Free Upgrades" to businesses: enabling warehouse workers to input data by voice, or helping writers draft books while walking. Includes a technical implementation plan, pricing tiers, and a strategy to find "keyboard-weary" clients.

China's Steptok AI has made a significant leap in voice AI with its latest Step-Audio 2.1 model, which has reportedly achieved top-tier scores in multiple global audio understanding benchmarks, showcasing its advancements in end-to-end architecture and reasoning capabilities