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Kokoro's open-source TTS model rivals the best with a lean 82 million parameters
A new open source voice model called Kokoro just landed on HuggingFace, and early tests show it can generate voices that rival commercial services like Eleven Labs. The model packs 82 million ...
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Amazon's LLM-powered Alexa faces generative AI's common reliability challenges
Amazon's effort to transform Alexa from a basic voice assistant into an AI-powered personal concierge isn't going as smoothly as planned. The company is finding it challenging to make AI models ...
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Biden splits the world into three groups with new AI chip export controls
The Biden administration has unveiled a new system for controlling AI chip exports that splits the world into three distinct groups. While America's closest allies will maintain full access, most ...
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ChatGPT's new "Tasks" feature pushes it closer to becoming a full-fledged AI assistant
OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT closer to becoming a full-fledged AI assistant with its new "Tasks" feature. While it's not quite as hands-on as Siri or Google Assistant yet, it can now handle scheduled ...
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Microsoft tested 100 AI tools and found hackers don't need complex math to break them
Microsoft's AI security team has put more than 100 generative AI products through their paces since 2021, looking for weak spots and ethical concerns. Their findings challenge some common assumptions ...
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Microsoft's rStar-Math enables small language models to ace complicated math problems
Microsoft Research Asia has developed a training method called rStar-Math that enables small language models to match or exceed the math performance of much larger AI systems, such as OpenAI's ...
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US plans to accelerate AI growth with private gigawatt-scale data centers on federal land
President Biden has signed an order that will let companies build AI data centers on federal property, part of a broader push to keep the US at the forefront of artificial intelligence development.
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Microsoft CEO Nadella sees 'thirty years of change compressed into three years'
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the formation of a new division called "CoreAI - Platform and Tools" in response to what he sees as rapidly accelerating AI development. In an internal memo to ...
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Europe must reassess using Meta's AI models after Zuckerberg's anti-EU rhetoric
Meta's position has changed dramatically recently. Not long ago, the company criticized the EU for preventing it from using European user data to train its AI models, arguing this data was crucial for ...
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Alibaba launches free web interface Qwen Chat for Qwen AI models
The platform lets users experiment with several AI models side by side, including Qwen2.5-Plus for general conversation, Qwen2-VL-Max for understanding images, and specialized models like QwQ and QVQ ...
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World's first AI-designed shoes look like weird Crocs from the future
The futuristic slides, which look like an even weirder version of Crocs, are 3D printed individually for each customer and retail for $150. Customers scan their feet with their phone's camera, and ...
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OpenAI paints China as AI bogeyman in America First pivot ahead of Trump's second term
OpenAI is repositioning itself with a distinctly American identity, rolling out a new business strategy that puts U.S. interests front and center. "We believe in America because America believes in ...