Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in the fast-growing voice AI market.
Forbes

Beyond Autoregression: A New Model For Text Generation

Every time a language model like GPT-4, Claude or Mistral generates a sentence, it does something deceptively simple: It picks one word at a time. This word-by-word approach is what gives ...
Slator

Mistral Completes Voxtral Speech Stack With Launch of Text-to-Speech Model

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, extending its model family into speech generation and enabling end-to-end voice workflows.
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Microsoft's New AI Models Go Beyond Just Text

Microsoft's New AI Models Go Beyond Just Text ...
TechCrunch

Google debuts a new Gemini-based text embedding model

Google on Friday added a new, experimental “embedding” model for text, Gemini Embedding, to its Gemini developer API. Embedding models translate text inputs like words and phrases into numerical ...
i-SCOOP

GLM-5V-Turbo: Z.ai’s native multimodal agent model explained

GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai's first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agentic task ...
VentureBeat

Meta’s Transfusion model handles text and images in a single architecture

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Multi-modal models that can process both ...
InfoQ

Google Text Embedding Model Gecko Distills Large Language Models for Improved Performance

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Soroosh Khodami discusses why we aren't ready ...
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Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’

Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally. The ...