Eg2 turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model
An embedding model, turned into a speech-to-text model. An hour of audio in about 13 seconds on a base MacBook Air, on device.
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Models & Releases
<p>Models & Releases: Model releases, evaluation, research and the shifting economics of machine intelligence.</p>
Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try Typesafe’s first System One…
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. - Niko1221/Strata
LeCun has “zero concerns” about AI wiping out humanity, recent “rogue” incidents
The former Meta chief AI scientist shares his take on recent rogue AI incidents and effective altruism, as well as plans for his…
Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works
Kolibri is Aleph Alpha's open-weight German and English LLM: 78B parameters, 3.5B per token. How it works, what it's good and bad at,…
Apple Pass Designer
Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness centre, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer…
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Use DeepSeek Harness to work with documents, analyse spreadsheets, write code, and schedule tasks. Extend its capabilities with composable plugins.
DraftKings is using AI to behaviourally target chronic gamblers
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling…
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on…
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behaviour. It started with a series of carefully…
Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
In the midst of growing fears that artificial intelligence is advancing at such a rate that it may compel itself to end all…