# Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

**Published:** October 23, 2026
**Author:** Jay Peters
**Source:** The Verge — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/jack-dorsey-s-block-made-an-ai-model-that-talks-to-you-like-an-awkward-n

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared…

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