Agora has entered a strategic partnership with Sentino to co-develop an AI Agent Platform for Physical AI, leveraging Agora’s Conversational AI Engine and Sentino’s emotional-depth expertise. The joint platform supports four core engagement features—Agent OS that generates context-aware ‘inner thoughts,’ AI Diary for persona-consistent memory capture, crayon-style Diary Illustration, and Music Diary for emotion-driven soundtracks. By combining real-time conversation, multimodal expression and persistent memory, the solution targets device makers in education, lifestyle and brand-avatar markets. Early pilot customers report a 35% lift in weekly active use and a 20% reduction in development time, thanks to shared infrastructure and prebuilt companion personas.

Following MiniMax’s recent IPO, Agora has deepened its collaboration to integrate MiniMax’s expressive TTS models directly into Agora’s global, sub-second latency network. This integration enables live interruption, dynamic adaptation and multilingual voice generation across over 200 countries and regions. In joint trials with three enterprise call-center customers, the combined solution reduced average customer wait times by 15% and increased first-call resolution rates by 12%. The partnership aims to support AI-native devices, real-time customer-service bots and interactive education platforms, unifying text generation, TTS and delivery in a single API.