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Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Omni AI Model With Real-Time Speech Generation Released
Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Qwen 2.5 family on Wednesday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5 Omni, it is a flagship-tier end-to-end multimodal model. The company claims it can process a wide range of inputs, including text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses.
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Google Reportedly Working on Adding a Second Language for Gemini Live
Google is reportedly working on adding support for a second language with Gemini Live. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant is planning to allow users to speak with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in two different languages across speech and text modalities. With this, Gemini Live is said to not only understand what the us...
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Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal Announces Krutrim AI Lab, Releases Open-Source Krutrim-2 Model
Ola founder and chairman Bhavish Aggarwal announced the Krutrim AI lab on Tuesday. The AI-focused research lab will be the central hub for all the future model releases of Ola Krutrim (commonly referred to as Krutrim). Alongside, several new India-focused open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models were also released, with the main highlight be...
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YouTube Expands AI-Powered Auto Dubbing Feature to Knowledge-Based Channels
YouTube is rolling out its auto dubbing feature to knowledge and information-focused content, it announced on Tuesday. As the name suggests, auto dubbing can automatically transcribe and translate YouTube videos from English to other dialects and vice versa, helping creators engage viewers who don’t speak the same language by transcending languag...
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Pixel Recorder App Could Soon Get a ‘Clear Voice’ Feature for Background Noise Reduction
Google is developing a new feature for its native Pixel Recorder app to eliminate background noise and enable clearer speech playback when recording audio on its smartphones, according to a report. It was spotted during an APK teardown of the app for Android. The app is exclusive to Google’s Pixel lineup of devices such as the latest Pixel 9 seri...
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Google Cloud Partners With DeliverHealth to Bring AI Solutions for Clinical Documentations
Google Cloud announced a collaboration with DeliverHealth, a clinical documentation and digital health platform, on Thursday. The announcement was made at the Google Cloud Startup Summit 2024 India event in Bengaluru. The strategic partnership will combine the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Gemini AI models with the large data repository of the...
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OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Reportedly Adding Hallucinated Content in Medical Consultation Records
OpenAI released an artificial intelligence (AI) tool dubbed Whisper in 2022, which can transcribe speech to text. However, a report claimed that the AI tool is prone to hallucinations and is adding imaginary text in transcriptions. This is concerning as the tool is said to be used in several high-risk industries such as medicine and accessibility.
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Nvidia AI Summit India: Jensen Huang Speaks About Blackwell GPUs, AI Strategy for India and AI Agents
Nvidia AI Summit India event’s day two was kicked off by company CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday. The CEO took the stage adorned in his trademark black leather jacket and greeted India saying, “India is very, very dear to the world's computer industry and central to the IT industry.” During his keynote speech, Huang spoke about the rise of techn...
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OpenAI Advanced Voice Mode With Human-Like Emotive Speech Rolling Out to All Paid ChatGPT Users
OpenAI rolled out the Advanced Voice Mode feature to all the paid users of ChatGPT on Tuesday. The feature was first unveiled at the OpenAI Spring Updates event in May and was touted as a human-like voice chat experience where the artificial intelligence (AI) can express emotions, modulate the voice, and react to what the user is saying.
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MiniMax Video-01 Platform With AI Video Generation Capabilities Launched
MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, released a text-to-video generation model on Monday. Dubbed Video-01, the platform is available to the public even outside of China. It can generate six-second-long videos in a wide range of styles. Video-01 joins the company’s existing AI offerings suc...
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Google Rolls Out New AI-Powered Accessibility Features for Pixel, Android Devices
Google introduced new artificial intelligence (AI) accessibility features for Pixel smartphones and Android devices on Tuesday. There are four new features, out of which two are exclusive to Pixel smartphones, and two have a wider availability across Android devices. These features are aimed at people with low vision and vision loss, people who are...
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Nvidia Project G-Assist, an RTX-Powered Gaming AI Assistant for PCs Unveiled at Computex 2024
Nvidia unveiled Project G-Assist, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) platform on Sunday at Computex 2024. The tech giant introduced it as a personal gaming assistant for PCs that can answer queries about any video game including gaming strategies and analysing multiplayer replays. The AI comes w...
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Truecaller Collaborates With Microsoft to Integrate Personal Voice With AI Assistant: How to Set It
Truecaller is collaborating with Microsoft to significantly upgrade its existing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature AI Assistant. As a part of this partnership, the caller identification app will leverage the Microsoft Azure AI Speech feature called Personal Voice. This will be integrated with the AI Assistant to give it a replica voice o...
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SocialFi Is the New Buzzword in Web3 World, Here’s What We Know About It
The concept of SocialFi is to bridge the gap that exists between existing social networking platforms and Web3. It gives users more control over their content, more freedom of speech, and also lets them monetise their content.
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Microsoft Unveils VASA-1, an Image-to-Video AI Model That Generates Eerily Realistic Results
Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate hyperrealistic videos of talking human faces. Dubbed VASA-1, the AI image-to-video model can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. The company says the created videos will have synchronised lip movements to match the audio as well as facial ex...
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Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Omni AI Model With Real-Time Speech Generation Released
Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Qwen 2.5 family on Wednesday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5 Omni, it is a flagship-tier end-to-end multimodal model. The company claims it can process a wide range of inputs, including text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses.
-
Google Reportedly Working on Adding a Second Language for Gemini Live
Google is reportedly working on adding support for a second language with Gemini Live. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant is planning to allow users to speak with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in two different languages across speech and text modalities. With this, Gemini Live is said to not only understand what the us...
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Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal Announces Krutrim AI Lab, Releases Open-Source Krutrim-2 Model
Ola founder and chairman Bhavish Aggarwal announced the Krutrim AI lab on Tuesday. The AI-focused research lab will be the central hub for all the future model releases of Ola Krutrim (commonly referred to as Krutrim). Alongside, several new India-focused open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models were also released, with the main highlight be...
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YouTube Expands AI-Powered Auto Dubbing Feature to Knowledge-Based Channels
YouTube is rolling out its auto dubbing feature to knowledge and information-focused content, it announced on Tuesday. As the name suggests, auto dubbing can automatically transcribe and translate YouTube videos from English to other dialects and vice versa, helping creators engage viewers who don’t speak the same language by transcending languag...
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Pixel Recorder App Could Soon Get a ‘Clear Voice’ Feature for Background Noise Reduction
Google is developing a new feature for its native Pixel Recorder app to eliminate background noise and enable clearer speech playback when recording audio on its smartphones, according to a report. It was spotted during an APK teardown of the app for Android. The app is exclusive to Google’s Pixel lineup of devices such as the latest Pixel 9 seri...
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Google Cloud Partners With DeliverHealth to Bring AI Solutions for Clinical Documentations
Google Cloud announced a collaboration with DeliverHealth, a clinical documentation and digital health platform, on Thursday. The announcement was made at the Google Cloud Startup Summit 2024 India event in Bengaluru. The strategic partnership will combine the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Gemini AI models with the large data repository of the...
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OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Reportedly Adding Hallucinated Content in Medical Consultation Records
OpenAI released an artificial intelligence (AI) tool dubbed Whisper in 2022, which can transcribe speech to text. However, a report claimed that the AI tool is prone to hallucinations and is adding imaginary text in transcriptions. This is concerning as the tool is said to be used in several high-risk industries such as medicine and accessibility.
-
Nvidia AI Summit India: Jensen Huang Speaks About Blackwell GPUs, AI Strategy for India and AI Agents
Nvidia AI Summit India event’s day two was kicked off by company CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday. The CEO took the stage adorned in his trademark black leather jacket and greeted India saying, “India is very, very dear to the world's computer industry and central to the IT industry.” During his keynote speech, Huang spoke about the rise of techn...
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OpenAI Advanced Voice Mode With Human-Like Emotive Speech Rolling Out to All Paid ChatGPT Users
OpenAI rolled out the Advanced Voice Mode feature to all the paid users of ChatGPT on Tuesday. The feature was first unveiled at the OpenAI Spring Updates event in May and was touted as a human-like voice chat experience where the artificial intelligence (AI) can express emotions, modulate the voice, and react to what the user is saying.
-
MiniMax Video-01 Platform With AI Video Generation Capabilities Launched
MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, released a text-to-video generation model on Monday. Dubbed Video-01, the platform is available to the public even outside of China. It can generate six-second-long videos in a wide range of styles. Video-01 joins the company’s existing AI offerings suc...
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Google Rolls Out New AI-Powered Accessibility Features for Pixel, Android Devices
Google introduced new artificial intelligence (AI) accessibility features for Pixel smartphones and Android devices on Tuesday. There are four new features, out of which two are exclusive to Pixel smartphones, and two have a wider availability across Android devices. These features are aimed at people with low vision and vision loss, people who are...
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Nvidia Project G-Assist, an RTX-Powered Gaming AI Assistant for PCs Unveiled at Computex 2024
Nvidia unveiled Project G-Assist, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) platform on Sunday at Computex 2024. The tech giant introduced it as a personal gaming assistant for PCs that can answer queries about any video game including gaming strategies and analysing multiplayer replays. The AI comes w...
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Truecaller Collaborates With Microsoft to Integrate Personal Voice With AI Assistant: How to Set It
Truecaller is collaborating with Microsoft to significantly upgrade its existing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature AI Assistant. As a part of this partnership, the caller identification app will leverage the Microsoft Azure AI Speech feature called Personal Voice. This will be integrated with the AI Assistant to give it a replica voice o...
-
SocialFi Is the New Buzzword in Web3 World, Here’s What We Know About It
The concept of SocialFi is to bridge the gap that exists between existing social networking platforms and Web3. It gives users more control over their content, more freedom of speech, and also lets them monetise their content.
-
Microsoft Unveils VASA-1, an Image-to-Video AI Model That Generates Eerily Realistic Results
Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate hyperrealistic videos of talking human faces. Dubbed VASA-1, the AI image-to-video model can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. The company says the created videos will have synchronised lip movements to match the audio as well as facial ex...
