OpenAI has announced a web search functionality for its ChatGPT conversational AI. The new feature, initially rolling out to paid subscribers, allows ChatGPT to search the web and provide real-time information on topics such as news, sports, stocks, and weather. By delivering curated answers with clear source attribution, ChatGPT aims to provide a more natural …
OpenAI has updated its Realtime API, currently in beta, with five new expressive voices for speech-to-speech applications and reduced costs for developers by introducing prompt caching. According to OpenAI’s API documentation cited in an article by VentureBeat, the native speech-to-speech feature enables low latency and nuanced output. The company showcased three of the new voices …
Microsoft has revealed that its AI business is on track to surpass a $10 billion annual revenue run rate next quarter, making it the fastest business in the company’s history to reach this milestone. The company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, attributes this growth to Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Microsoft disclosed in its …
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced significant advancements in its artificial intelligence projects and strong financial results for the third quarter of 2024. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Meta AI, the company’s generative AI tool, has surpassed 500 million monthly users and is on track to become the most-used AI assistant …
Omnivore, a reading app startup, has been acquired by ElevenLabs, an AI audio technology company, to help develop their new ElevenReader app. According to a note from Omnivore’s founders Jackson and Hongbo, the acquisition will enable them to create more accessible reading and listening experiences on a larger platform. Omnivore users are invited to create …
Moondream, a startup backed by Felicis Ventures, Microsoft’s M12 GitHub Fund, and Ascend, has emerged from stealth with $4.5 million in pre-seed funding. According to VentureBeat’s Michael Nuñez, the company has developed an open-source vision-language model that boasts 1.6 billion parameters but matches the performance of models four times its size. The model, which can …
Read AI, an AI-powered meeting assistant startup, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Smash Capital, just six months after a $21 million Series A. According to co-founder David Shim, the company has seen strong growth, with over 100,000 new accounts created since the Series A. Read AI plans to …
Amphion is an open-source toolkit designed to support research and development in audio, music and speech generation. According to the project’s GitHub site, it offers unique visualizations of classic models and architectures to help junior researchers and engineers better understand them. The toolkit supports various individual generation tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), singing voice synthesis …
Useful, an AI company focused on improving human-machine communication, has open-sourced Moonshine, a new speech-to-text model that aims to significantly reduce the latency of voice interfaces. According to Useful founder Pete Warden, Moonshine returns results 1.7 times faster than OpenAI’s Whisper model while matching or exceeding its accuracy. The model’s variable-length input window allows it …
Nooks, an AI sales platform founded by three Stanford roommates, has raised $43 million in a Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total funding to $70 million at a $285 million valuation. According to CEO Daniel Lee, Nooks uses AI to automate tedious sales tasks like finding contacts, leaving voicemails, writing emails …