Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More ElevenLabs, the highly-valued AI voice cloning and generation startup from former Palantir alumni, today launched Scribe v1, a new speech-to-text model that reportedly achieves the highest accuracy across multiple languages. Users can try it here on…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face, the AI startup valued at over $4 billion, has introduced FastRTC, an open-source Python library that removes a major obstacle for developers building real-time audio and video AI applications. “Building real-time WebRTC and Websocket…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OctoTools, a new open-source agentic platform released by scientists at Stanford University, can turbocharge large language models (LLMs) for reasoning tasks by breaking down tasks into subunits and enhancing the models with tools. While tool use…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI announced today that it is rolling out its powerful Deep Research capability to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, Education and Enterprise users, significantly expanding access to what many experts consider the company’s most transformative AI agent…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More New York City startup Hume AI emerged from stealth two years ago and has since raised multimillions in funding on the basis of its technology that creatives emotive AI voices for use in enterprise applications. Today,…

Escape.ai debuted the beta of its Neo Cinema content distribution platform and creator marketplace to spur emerging forms of entertainment. As a premier global hub for emerging story, art and experiential content, Escape.ai empowers the newest wave of filmmakers, digital artists, and game creators to seamlessly showcase and monetize original digital content. It’s the latest…

Akool, a startup doing AI-driven avatar content creation, announced enhancements to Akool Streaming Avatars that connect avatars with AI models. Akool has added advanced video generation technology that now seamlessly integrates with large language models (LLMs) to help model builders create dynamic, 2D lifelike avatars. With the ability to upload a photo and provide a voice recording,…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In the wake of the disruptive debut of DeepSeek-R1, reasoning models have been all the rage so far in 2025. IBM is now joining the party, with the debut today of its Granite 3.2 large language…

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs showed how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in an interoperable way in wireless networks. Carl Nuzman, Bell Labs Fellow at Nokia Bell Labs and Rachel Wang, principal engineer at Qualcomm, said in a blog post that they demonstrated the flexibility of sequential learning, which can facilitate networkdecoder-first or device…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI announced today that it is rolling out its powerful Deep Research capability to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, Education, and Enterprise users, significantly expanding access to what many experts consider the company’s most transformative AI agent…