Alex Smola is co-founder of Boson AI, where he works on conversational voice AI and multimodal systems. His career spans academic research at Carnegie Mellon University and large-scale AI initiatives at AWS. He brings that combination of research and product experience to building assistants that can understand conversational cues, handle interruptions, and carry out useful work. Boson AI develops foundation models and tools for voice, audio, and multimodal interaction. Its Higgs Realtime model…