Of course, we all know Elmo as the red, fuzzy ball of joy who's been giggling his way into our hearts since the '80s on Sesame Street ... out that Elmo needing a hug had some people feeling ...

Called CSM-1B, the model generates "RVQ audio codes" from text and audio inputs, according to Sesame's description on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. RVQ refers to "residual vector quantization ...