Maya Research has released Maya1, a 3B parameter text to speech model that turns text plus a short description into controllable, expressive speech while running in real time on a single GPU. What Maya1 Actually Does? Maya1 is a state of the art speech model for expressive voice generation. It is built to capture real…
Einride said Wednesday it plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, just six weeks after the Swedish electric and autonomous truck startup raised $100 million from investors. The SPAC merger with Legato Merger Corp. values Einride at $1.8 billion in pre-money equity, according to the companies. The deal is…
Semantic caching in LLM (Large Language Model) applications optimizes performance by storing and reusing responses based on semantic similarity rather than exact text matches. When a new query arrives, it’s converted into an embedding and compared with cached ones using similarity search. If a close match is found (above a similarity threshold), the cached response…
Figma is expanding its presence in India by setting up a local office and hiring Indian talent as it seeks to deepen ties with one of its largest user communities and make a broader push to better win over developers alongside the designers who already rely on the platform. Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field…
How can we get large model level multimodal reasoning for documents, charts and videos while running only a 3B class model in production? Baidu has added a new model to the ERNIE-4.5 open source family. ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking is a vision language model that focuses on document, chart and video understanding with a small active parameter budget….
def generate_advanced_dataset(): np.random.seed(42) start_date = datetime(2022, 1, 1) dates = [start_date + timedelta(days=x) for x in range(730)] categories = [‘Electronics’, ‘Clothing’, ‘Home & Garden’, ‘Sports’, ‘Books’] products = { ‘Electronics’: [‘Laptop’, ‘Smartphone’, ‘Headphones’, ‘Tablet’, ‘Smartwatch’], ‘Clothing’: [‘T-Shirt’, ‘Jeans’, ‘Dress’, ‘Jacket’, ‘Sneakers’], ‘Home & Garden’: [‘Furniture’, ‘Lamp’, ‘Rug’, ‘Plant’, ‘Cookware’], ‘Sports’: [‘Yoga Mat’, ‘Dumbbell’, ‘Running Shoes’,…
The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models — but the picture is different for the application layer, with emerging category leaders such as Lovable and Synthesia. That’s the conclusion made by global VC firm Accel in its 2025 Globalscape report, which focuses on the AI and cloud market….
There’s a moment backstage at Web Summit when a member of the production crew — easily twice the size of Laurent Mekies — wraps a beefy arm around the Oracle Red Bull Racing CEO’s shoulder and steers him toward the soundboard to retrieve his phone for a selfie. Most executives leading 2,000-person organizations would bristle…
Meta may be about to lose one of its most renowned AI heads: Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at the company, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. LeCun, a professor at New York University, senior researcher at Meta, and winner of the…
The European Commission is stepping up efforts to bolster the security of Europe’s telecommunications networks by urging member states to phase out equipment from vendors such as Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE from its 5G and next-gen networks, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The EC had in 2020 recommended that member nations stop using…
