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AI search company Perplexity announced the launch of Perplexity Labs, a new feature that transforms user ideas into complete projects including reports, spreadsheets, and web applications. The tool is available exclusively to Pro subscribers and represents an expansion beyond the company’s existing search and research capabilities. Labs performs automated work sessions lasting 10 minutes or …
New York startup Hume has launched EVI 3, an advanced conversational AI model that lets users create custom synthetic voices through voice-to-voice interaction. The technology targets applications from customer support to virtual companionship, according to reporting by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat. Users can specify personality traits, vocal qualities, and emotional tones to generate voices ranging …
Boston-based Mystic Moose has unveiled MovieFlo.AI, an artificial intelligence platform that enables users to create animated films and videos from story concepts. The tool targets anime creators, filmmakers, and content creators who lack traditional production resources. Dean Takahashi reports the launch for VentureBeat. The platform offers an integrated workflow from script development to final video …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released a significant update to its open-source reasoning model, bringing it closer to competing with paid services from OpenAI and Google. The new DeepSeek-R1-0528 model shows substantial improvements in complex reasoning tasks across mathematics, science, and programming. VentureBeat’s Carl Franzen reports that the updated model achieved 87.5% accuracy on the …
Palo Alto startup Akool has unveiled Live Camera, an AI tool that generates photorealistic avatars and translates speech in real time during video calls. The technology, reported by Dean Takahashi for GamesBeat, allows users to appear as digital avatars while maintaining natural expressions and gestures with sub-100-millisecond latency. “We want to make it so you …
Anthropic has launched a voice mode for its Claude chatbot on mobile devices. The feature allows users to have spoken conversations with Claude in English, with a rollout planned over the next few weeks. The voice mode runs on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model and offers five voice options called “Buttery, Airy, Mellow, Glassy and …
Google unveiled Gemini Diffusion at its I/O developer conference, marking a significant shift in how AI models generate text. The experimental model uses diffusion technology instead of the traditional transformer approach that powers ChatGPT and similar systems. The key advantage is speed. Gemini Diffusion generates text at 857 to 2,000 tokens per second, which is …
As reported: OpenAI has acquired Jony Ive’s design firm io for $6.5 billion, with plans to develop new AI hardware devices. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal and other sources, CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Ive are collaborating on what they describe as a “family of devices” that will represent a …
Anthropic has released its newest AI models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, which set new standards for coding abilities and sustained performance on complex tasks. The Claude 4 family represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, with Opus 4 demonstrating the ability to work continuously for up to seven hours on complex coding …
Google has announced significant updates to its generative AI portfolio with the introduction of Veo 3, Imagen 4, and a new filmmaking tool called Flow. Veo 3, the company’s latest video generation model, marks a breakthrough by incorporating audio capabilities, including dialogue between characters and ambient sounds such as traffic noise or birdsong. This feature …