A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts — and one of ...

I type a lot. Between drafting my articles, writing emails, taking notes, and endless back-and-forth WhatsApp and Slack messages, my keyboard gets a serious workout. After owning a Windows laptop for ...

Chinese cloud provider Alibaba has released four versions of its video-generation AI model as open source, allowing users to download and run them for free on capable PCs. The Wan2.1 text-to-video ...

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...

Miller Reynolds is a Journalist and Writer with a strong passion for gaming and writing news. Awarded the Excellence in Writing and Production Award while attending Loyalist College, Miller is ...

The open-source shift has been spearheaded by AI startup DeepSeek, whose R1 model released earlier this year challenged American tech dominance. Chinese AI companies from big players such as Baidu to ...