# Dessa Benchmark Scores & Performance

> Dessa has Block Dessa recordings results. Voice evidence is display-only and does not produce a text-model score.

Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/models/dessa

Last updated: October 23, 2026

## Model Details

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Creator | Block |
| Source Type | Pending |
| Reasoning Type | Non-Reasoning |
| Context Window | N/A |
| Official model card | [Block launch page](https://block.xyz/dessa) |
| Overall Score | Not scored (voice evidence only) |
| Overall Rank | Unranked |

## Family & Coverage

- Family: Dessa
- Variant: base
- Benchmarks covered: 0 of 706
- Coverage note: Speech and voice results appear below; no weighted text-model benchmark rows are stored.

## Speech and voice evidence

[Dessa launch recordings](/voice-benchmarks/dessa-launch-recordings)

Block chose and recorded these conversations, and it reports no quantitative evaluation. Faster-than-real-time inference, local MacBook Pro M4 Max inference, and single GB200 NVL72 training are Block claims that have not been independently checked. Nothing here enters weighted text-model scores.

| Metric | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Quantitative evaluation | Not published |
| Featured live recordings | 6, plus 15 more samples |
| Local hardware (Block claim) | MacBook Pro M4 Max or better |
| Training compute (Block claim) | One NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 |

Block launch page read October 23, 2026. Block publishes recordings and capability claims, not benchmark scores.

- [Evaluation source](https://block.xyz/dessa)

Announced by Block with a waitlist and early access for a small group of AI safety researchers. Block says Dessa listens and speaks at the same time, runs faster than real time, and runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better. No API model ID, weights, license, or release date is published yet.