Products & ServicesEvent: September 3, 2026
Desert Ant Labs introduced its first speech-to-text model, the Parakeet on steroids, optimized for performance on the Apple Neural Engine.
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“Our first STT model is a Parakeet on steroids, optimized for performance on the Apple Neural Engine.”
— Paul Veugen|Desert Ant Labs team
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Desert Ant Labs
Frontier AI lab for on-device models. We're building the intelligence layer for every app.
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 4 employees
Desert Ant Labs is a European frontier AI lab building opinionated on-device audio and visual models. We put little brains in every product to unlock new experiences, with no inference cost and no data leaving your device. We're building intelligence for developers, on the 6 billion devices people already own.