Google Real-Time Translator: More Than Word-for-Word Translations

Google's real-time translator looks ahead and anticipates what is being said, explains Niklas Blum, Director Product ...
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High-Fidelity Neural Speech Reconstruction through an Efficient Acoustic-Linguistic Dual-Pathway Framework

This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...
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Byteification: AI2’s New Bolmo AI Model Cuts AI Training Costs by 99%

AI2 has unveiled Bolmo, a byte-level model created by retrofitting its OLMo 3 model with <1% of the compute budget.
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Google Translate’s real-time speech works on any Android headphones

How fast can a conversation cross languages without breaking its rhythm?” That is what Google Translate’s latest update has answered with one giant leap in functionality and performance. Live speech ...

Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without sacrificing quality

Ai2 releases Bolmo, a new byte-level language model the company hopes would encourage more enterprises to use byte level ...

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...