Databricks DBRX is an on-premise ChatGPT alternative

Databricks introduces DBRX, a new open source AI model designed to provide enterprises with a cost-effective and efficient alternative to GPT-3.5. Because companies deploy and manage it themselves, the security and confidentiality of data is better protected than with an external offering such as ChatGPT. Source: VentureBeat

Soundry AI creates additional music

Soundry AI is a generative AI tool for musicians that can be used to create additional music snippets by entering text or using samples as starting points. Source: Hacker News

OpenAI expands program for custom AI models

OpenAI is expanding its program for building custom AI models for enterprises to address specific use cases. With techniques such as assisted fine-tuning and custom-trained models, companies of all sizes should be able to develop personalized models. Source: TechCrunch

Customize and deploy AI models with OctoStack

OctoAI introduces OctoStack, a platform that allows companies to customize generative AI models and deploy them in their own environments. Source: VentureBeat

Consistent characters in AI videos with Eggnog

Eggnog enables AI-generated videos with consistent characters. First you create the person, including outfits, then you storyboard the planned scenes of the clip, and finally you create the video. Eggnog aims to become the “YouTube for AI videos”. Sources: TechCrunch, Y Combinator

Vectorview evaluates performance and security

Vectorview helps to evaluate the performance and security of language models. Targeted testing with real-world scenarios is supposed to detect and prevent unintended behavior that is often missed by generic benchmarks. Sources: TechCrunch, Y Combinator

Assembly AI announces speech recognition model

Assembly AI introduces its new Universal-1 speech recognition model, which is said to have 30% fewer hallucinations in speech data and 90% fewer hallucinations in ambient noise compared to OpenAI’s Whisper. The model offers improved accuracy for English, Spanish, French, and German, supports code-switching, optimized timestamp estimation, and faster parallel processing, which can be beneficial … Read more

Generated images can now also be edited with Dall-E

A demo video on Twitter/X shows a function commonly known as “inpainting”: parts of the image can be selected with a brush tool and then changed by text command. Source: Axios

OpenAI Voice Engine announced

OpenAI presents its new AI technology “Voice Engine“, which can apparently imitate human voices deceptively realistically. However, the company is limiting access to selected partners for now. Source: VentureBeat

OpenVoice can replicate voices in multiple languages

MyShell TTS introduces OpenVoice. The tool can replicate a person’s voice in multiple languages using short snippets of audio. OpenVoice allows detailed control over voice style, emotion, accent, rhythm, pauses, and intonation. Source: Hacker News