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Groq and PlayAI just made voice AI sound way more human — here’s how

Groq and PlayAI announced a partnership today to bring Dialog, an advanced text-to-speech model, to market through Groq’s high-speed inference platform. The partnership combines PlayAI’s expertise in voice AI with Groq’s specialized processing infrastructure, creating what the companies claim is one of the most natural-sounding and responsive text-to-speech systems available. “Groq…
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Saga Origins and Spirit Animation bring animated character Karl AI Agent to life

Saga Origins, a division of Saga, and Spirit Animation teamed up to bring the animated character Karl AI Agent to life. As one of the first animated characters to be transformed into an AI Agent, the strawberry superhero character Karl will now engage with fans in real time, delivering interactive storytelling and healthy lifestyle tips in an effort to reinforce the core messages of balance and…
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DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has quietly released a new large language model that’s already sending ripples through the artificial intelligence industry — not just for its capabilities, but for how it’s being deployed. The 641-gigabyte model, dubbed DeepSeek-V3-0324, appeared on AI repository Hugging Face today with virtually no announcement, continuing the company’s pattern of low-key but…
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The open-source AI debate: Why selective transparency poses a serious risk

As tech giants declare their AI releases open — and even put the word in their names — the once insider term “open source” has burst into the modern zeitgeist. During this precarious time in which one company’s misstep could set back the public’s comfort with AI by a decade or more, the concepts of openness and transparency are being wielded haphazardly, and sometimes dishonestly, to…
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