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Hugging Face’s new ranking of the best freely avaiable language models shows that Chinese models currently lead the way. Alibaba’s Qwen models dominate the top spots in the ranking, which is based on more challenging tests than its predecessor. Skills such as knowledge recall, inferring from long texts, complex mathematics, and following instructions are assessed.
Startup Ario is building an AI-powered personal assistant that will help users with everyday tasks by connecting to apps like Amazon, DoorDash, and Google Calendar. The highlight: Ario collects user data from multiple sources to make personalized recommendations and automate processes.
The music AI Suno is now available for iPhones in the USA. It offers a variety of styles and genres, and can create full songs with lyrics and vocals, as well as instrumentals. The app will soon be available in other countries and for Android devices.
How good is the new Runway Gen-3 video AI really? One Reddit user treated himself to a year of access and let others decide which prompts to try. See the results here.
Anthropic has released new features for its Claude language model to help developers create better prompts to optimize the performance of their AI applications.
Microsoft’s new “MInference” technology promises to significantly increase the processing speed of large language models by reducing the preprocessing time of long texts by up to 90%. An interactive demo on Hugging Face allows developers to test the technology and explore its capabilities.
Quora’s AI chatbot platform, Poe, introduced Previews, a new feature that allows users to create interactive applications in chats. These include data visualizations, games, or even drum machines that access information from uploaded files. The created applications can be shared via a link.
Salesforce has developed xLAM-1B, a small but powerful AI model that supposedly outperforms larger models from OpenAI and Anthropic in function calls.
ElevenLabs has introduced a new free service called AI Voice Isolator, which removes unwanted background noise from movies, podcasts or YouTube videos. Unlike other programs that can only remove constant noise, the Voice Isolator also handles irregular noises such as a door opening or someone clapping.
ElevenLabs has released a new app called Reader, which allows users to have any text read aloud in AI voices. New are “Iconic Voices”, which recreate the voices of deceased stars such as Judy Garland, James Dean and Laurence Olivier. The company acquired the rights to the voices from CMG Worldwide and stresses that the …