Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model. It generates expressive speech from both text and audio context. The model uses residual vector quantization (RVQ) to widen its sonic range. This avoids scaling a single flat vocabulary while keeping parameter count fixed. What is MisoTTS MisoTTS is an 8B-parameter text-to-dialogue RVQ Transformer. It…
Google Labs, the tech giant’s team devoted to experimental product design, has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android that will quite literally animate your life. Behold, Dreambeans. Why is it called that? We’ll get to that later. First, what is it? Gozde Oznur, the product lead behind the new app, told TechCrunch…
Substack announced on Wednesday a brand new characteristic known as “Reply Guidelines,” designed to present creators larger management over how their audiences are capable of reply. With the characteristic, creators can set up particular pointers for feedback on their posts, in Notes, or in Chat. These pointers may embrace requests to remove AI slop or…
If Alphabet’s record-breaking $85 billion inventory sale indicators investor urge for food for AI-related choices — and it does — we will safely say that buyers are voracious. Google’s father or mother firm had initially supposed to promote a primary tranche of $40 billion value of varied fairness devices — two totally different courses of…
Researchers at Stanford University and Lambda Labs, have published the research paper for OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that runs inference, agents, memory, and learning entirely on-device. The open-weight models configured through OpenJarvis land within 3.2 percentage points of the best cloud model on average, at roughly 800× lower marginal API cost per query and roughly…
In a quick-commerce market obsessive about pace, Indian startup FirstClub has satisfied traders that high quality could also be a contemporary alternative, serving to to double its valuation simply 9 months after its final funding spherical. The Bengaluru-based startup has raised $55 million in a Sequence B spherical co-led by Peak XV Companions and Sofina,…
Benchmark Capital, the storied Silicon Valley VC agency recognized for early investments in eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter, is breaking with one in all its signature traditions: preserving its funds to about $425 million and backing solely younger startups. After greater than 20 years of proscribing its autos to that quantity or decrease, the outfit…
Jordan vs. Algeria isn’t a soul-stirring World Cup matchup for most soccer fans. They’re the 63rd and 29th best teams in the world, according to FIFA rankings. The game will be played at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium (officially called Levi’s Stadium) in Santa Clara, yet both nations’ diaspora are more heavily concentrated on…
The CEOs of several major artificial intelligence companies are urging members of Congress to adopt new laws that would make it harder for bad actors to develop biological weapons using their technology. Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman are among the signatories on a public letter…
Google DeepMind just released Gemma 4 12B, a dense multimodal model that strips out traditional encoders entirely. Vision and audio flow straight into the LLM backbone. The result is a model that runs agentic workflows on a consumer laptop with 16 GB of RAM. It ships under the Apache 2.0 license. Model Overview & Access…
