Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI is advancing at a rapid clip for businesses, and that’s especially true of speech and voice AI models. Case in point: Today, ElevenLabs, the well-funded voice and AI sound effects startup founded by former Palantir…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Token Monster, a new AI chatbot platform, has launched its alpha preview, aiming to change how users interact with large language models (LLMs). Developed by Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI and its hit AI…

DeepSeek’s latest AI model, R1 0528, has raised eyebrows for a further regression on free speech and what users can discuss. “A big step backwards for free speech,” is how one prominent AI researcher summed it up AI researcher and popular online commentator ‘xlr8harder’ put the model through its paces, sharing findings that suggests DeepSeek…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Black Forest Labs (BFL), the startup founded by the creators of the popular Stable Diffusion model, has launched a new image generation model called FLUX.1 Kontext. This model not only generates and edits photos, but also…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More New York-based AI startup Hume has unveiled its latest Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) conversational AI model, EVI 3 (pronounced “Evee” Three, like the Pokémon character), targeting everything from powering customer support systems and health coaching to…

Peer, the AI-native platform reinventing the internet as a persistent, explorable universe, today launched its Global Simulation—a real-time digital Earth where users show up as avatars, connect by location, and build relationships in a living, spatial network. Peer is designed as a native environment for agentic AI—an operating system where AI can move, perceive, and…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Snowflake has thousands of enterprise customers that use the company’s data and AI technologies. Though many issues with generative AI are solved there is still lots of room for improvement. Two such issues are text-to-SQL query…

EnCharge AI, an AI chip startup that raised $144 million to date, announced the EnCharge EN100, an AI accelerator built on precise and scalable analog in-memory computing. Designed to bring advanced AI capabilities to laptops, workstations, and edge devices, EN100leverages transformational efficiency to deliver 200-plus TOPS (a measure of AI performance) of total compute power…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a…

London-based AI lab Odyssey has launched a research preview of a model transforming video into interactive worlds. Initially focusing on world models for film and game production, the Odyssey team has stumbled onto potentially a completely new entertainment medium. The interactive video generated by Odyssey’s AI model responds to inputs in real-time. You can interact…