OpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UK
OpenAI is finally making its video generation model, Sora, available to users in the European Union, the U.K., Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. The company said on Friday that ChatGPT…
February 2025
Transforming Speech Generation: How the Emilia Dataset Revolutionizes Multilingual Natural Voice Synthesis
Speech generation technology has advanced considerably in recent years, yet there remain significant challenges. Traditional text-to-speech systems often rely on datasets derived from audiobooks. While these recordings provide high-quality audio,…
Convergence AI Releases WebGames: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite Designed to Evaluate General-Purpose Web-Browsing AI Agents
AI agents are becoming more advanced and capable of handling complex tasks across different platforms. Websites and desktop applications are intended for human use, which demands knowledge of visual arrangements,…
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE
Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on…
Cohere AI Releases Command R7B Arabic: A Compact Open-Weights AI Model Optimized to Deliver State-of-the-Art Arabic Language Capabilities to Enterprises in the MENA Region
For many years, organizations in the MENA region have encountered difficulties when integrating AI solutions that truly understand the Arabic language. Traditional models have often been developed with a focus…
Elevating AI Reasoning: The Art of Sampling for Learnability in LLM Training
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a core component in training large language models (LLMs) to perform tasks that involve reasoning, particularly mathematical problem-solving. A considerable inefficiency occurs during training, including…
Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha warns ‘chumps’ not to buy into SPVs
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha apparently sees another greed cycle brewing in venture capital where the least sophisticated investors could get hurt. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
SEC says meme coins are not securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance on Thursday saying it does not view most meme coins, which are crypto tokens that originated from memes, as securities under United States…
Ascending Levels of Nerd
In developing the content for our May 8 virtual conference Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It, we couldn’t help but want to feature Harper…