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Camb AI’s Mars5 AI model enables realistic voice cloning in over 140 languages, combining voice cloning and text-to-speech in a single platform. The company claims that Mars5 is particularly good at capturing emotional nuances in speech, making it ideal for applications such as sports commentary and movies.
Stability AI releases “Stable Audio Open,” a new AI model for the free creation of sounds and pieces of music up to 47 seconds in length. However, due to the training material, it is limited to English descriptions and Western music styles.
ElevenLabs, a speech synthesis AI startup, unveiled “Sound Effects,” a new product that allows users to create audio samples simply by entering text. Developed in partnership with Shutterstock, the tool is designed to help creative professionals in fields as diverse as film, television, video games, and social media enhance their content with interesting and appropriate …
The new $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit allows users to implement AI applications for visual tasks with the microcomputer. The kit enables real-time object recognition, segmentation, and pose estimation with low power consumption, which could make the Raspberry Pi 5 suitable for many local AI applications.
For the first time, Scale AI publishes rankings for large language models, evaluating their performance in specific application areas such as generative AI programming, regression, mathematics, and multilingualism. OpenAI’s GPT models ranked first in three of the four areas (coding, multilingual, instruction following), while Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus ranked first in the remaining one (Math).
Intel introduced the “Lunar Lake” processor, a completely redesigned laptop chip for AI applications that eliminates the need for separate memory modules and instead integrates up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory directly into the chip package. Thanks to numerous optimizations, Intel promises up to 14 percent more CPU performance at the same clock speed, 50 …
Nvidia introduced “Blackwell,” a new hardware architecture for AI applications. It is designed to significantly increase the efficiency of data centers and accelerate the development of new AI solutions. New systems based on Blackwell will be offered by a number of vendors, including Asus, Gigabyte and Supermicro, and are expected to be suitable for both …
Nvidia introduces NIM (Nvidia Inference Microservices), a new technology that supposedly enables developers to deliver AI applications in minutes instead of weeks. These microservices provide optimized models as containers that can be deployed in clouds, data centers, or on workstations. The goal is to enable organizations to build generative AI applications for co-piloting, chatbots, and …
Adobe’s new AEP AI Assistant is designed to help organizations make better use of customer data and optimize their marketing efforts. It can answer questions about customer segments, provide real-time insights, and create personalized marketing materials on demand, including copy, design, and images.
Anthropic is extending its AI chatbot Claude with a feature that can be used to create custom solutions such as email assistants or shopping bots. By connecting to any programming interfaces (APIs) and with a little programming knowledge, it is apparently possible to develop versatile AI assistants that can, for example, provide personalized product recommendations, …