Gradium today released two real-time speech translation models: stt-translate and s2s-translate. Both run across five languages and stream results live in the browser. Gradium claims a better accuracy-latency tradeoff than gpt-realtime-translate and gemini-3.5-live-translate. It also adds output voice control, including cloning, that gpt-realtime-translate lacks. TL;DR Gradium launched two real-time speech translation models: stt-translate (speech →…

Backrooms, the recent horror movie mega-hit, is a film replete with ideas about repetition and degradation. Its central theme—the horror of a world that seems to be mindlessly, monstrously, ripping off our own—was regarded in some circles as a critique of generative AI. The idea has clearly struck a nerve. Recently passing $300 million at…