Agora announced a strategic partnership with Sentino to launch a new AI Agent Platform for Physical AI, enabling device makers and AI brands to create emotionally engaging, long-term AI companions. Built on Agora’s Conversational AI Engine, the platform integrates memory, emotion and multimodal expression into real-time interactions. Key features include an always-present Agent “OS” that generates context-aware inner thoughts, an AI Diary that records shared moments as text and crayon-style illustrations, and a Music Diary that converts memories into emotion-driven soundtracks. Management expects these capabilities to drive higher user retention and open premium subscription opportunities. With over 1,800 customers already using Agora’s real-time infrastructure, the company is positioning itself to capture growth in lifestyle devices, education applications and branded companion products.

Following MiniMax’s recent IPO, Agora deepened its collaboration by integrating MiniMax’s text-to-speech models into its real-time audio pipeline. This combined solution enables sub-second, interruptible, emotionally rich voice interactions ideal for call centers, robotics and AGI applications. Agora’s global network—spanning more than 200 countries with carrier-grade reliability—ensures consistent delivery of expressive AI voices, while MiniMax contributes multilingual, controllable TTS trained for diverse tone and style. Executives highlighted that this end-to-end offering reduces development complexity and accelerates time to market for voice-first products. The partnership is expected to expand Agora’s addressable market in enterprise voice services and interactive education platforms, further diversifying its revenue streams.