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Pika Speech is an advanced text-to-speech model that captures the nuances of inflection, rhythm, and timbre, making narrated content, characters, and spoken interactions resonate with a human touch. Rather than merely vocalizing text, it empowers creators to influence the tone and style of delivery for each line. Users have the option to select from a variety of preset voices or generate a personalized voice clone using just a few seconds of audio, and they can guide the performance with descriptive captions that specify the desired tone, such as upbeat and quick, deep and contemplative, or a tailored voice style. The model produces audio at a quality of 48 kHz and accommodates requests lasting up to five minutes, making it ideal for use in narration, character interactions, product demonstrations, storytelling, and various other spoken-content applications. Moreover, its design facilitates rapid iterations: during local tests, Pika achieved a real-time factor of 0.02, meaning that one minute of audio can be generated in approximately one second, allowing for efficient content creation and experimentation. This efficiency ensures that creators can quickly refine their audio outputs to meet their specific needs and preferences.

MAI-Image-2.6 represents the latest advancement from Microsoft AI in the realm of image generation, aiming to enhance the quality of images produced through text prompts and editing. The model showcases significant enhancements compared to its predecessor, MAI-Image-2.5, with notable improvements in various Arena categories, particularly excelling in text rendering capabilities. It creates more compelling portraits and 3D visuals, in addition to delivering refined outputs suitable for commercial, branding, and cinematic applications. Furthermore, it offers users expanded creative control, enabling the incorporation of multiple references, richer contextual grounding, and enhanced manipulation of reasoning, format, and resolution. Independent evaluations in the Arena revealed that MAI-Image-2.6 achieved a commendable No. 2 position in the text-to-image leaderboard and secured No. 3 for image editing, underscoring its advancements in both generation and editing processes. The remarkable progress in its image editing functionality is particularly evident in areas such as text rendering and commercial design, making it a versatile tool for creatives. Ultimately, MAI-Image-2.6 sets a new benchmark for quality and flexibility in the field of AI-generated imagery.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is a fully functional generative video model engineered to provide developers enhanced authority over the creation and editing of AI-generated videos. It offers the capability to prolong an existing scene in increments of 10 seconds, extending up to a total of 40 seconds, while taking into account up to 10 seconds of prior context, which significantly boosts visual coherence and narrative flow in lengthier sequences. Developers have the flexibility to define both the initial and final frames of a shot, allowing the model to produce fluid motion between them, facilitating smooth transitions, camera movements, zoom effects, and seamless looping clips. Additionally, a 360p preview mode allows for quicker prototyping and storyboard adjustments, while the final output can be rendered in 1080p or enhanced to 4K, ensuring a refined professional finish. Notably, Omni 1.1 can incorporate up to three seconds of reference video as multimodal input, which aids in maintaining visual context, character uniformity, motion fidelity, and scene direction. This comprehensive feature set empowers creators to craft intricate video narratives with greater ease and precision.

Hy4 preview represents a cutting-edge open source Mixture-of-Experts flagship model tailored for a variety of real-world productivity tasks, including software engineering, office activities, game development, and scientific exploration. This model boasts a staggering total of 770 billion parameters, with 49 billion activated per token, and features an impressive 1 million-token context window, allowing it to efficiently manage large codebases, vast document collections, and complex multi-step processes. The architecture consists of 78 layers that integrate Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention alongside IndexCache for reusing sparse indices across layers, while also employing identity Hyper-Connections to enhance the flow of information between layers. Additionally, a dedicated Multi-Token Prediction layer facilitates speculative decoding, further enhancing its capabilities. Hy4 preview is crafted to comprehend, plan, debug, and validate intricate engineering projects, while also achieving notable improvements in the quality of front-end visuals and interaction design, thereby making it an invaluable asset for professionals across various domains.

TimesFM-3 represents an advanced time series foundation model that excels in highly precise multivariate forecasting with a single forward pass. This model, which consists of 330 million parameters, has undergone pre-training on a vast corpus of real-world and synthetic time series data, totaling over 1 trillion time points, thereby enhancing the effectiveness and zero-shot generalization capabilities seen in previous TimesFM iterations. It is adept at simultaneously predicting numerous coevolving time series and understanding dependencies that bolster accuracy without the need for task-specific fine-tuning. Furthermore, it accommodates multiple forecasting targets, including both point and quantile predictions, and incorporates past covariates that are only available historically, alongside dynamic covariates that pertain to future events such as planned promotions, holidays, or weather changes. Utilizing a decoder-only transformer architecture, TimesFM-3 processes sequential data in segments of 32 time steps, employing alternating causal temporal attention and full variate attention to integrate patterns across both time and interrelated series effectively. As a result, it provides a robust tool for forecasting complex time-dependent phenomena in various applications.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber represents Google's most advanced cybersecurity model, offering top-tier performance in identifying vulnerabilities and automating patching processes with remarkable speed for rapid iteration. Tailored for trusted defenders, it is accessible via the Fairwind Program. On CyberGym, a recognized industry benchmark for detecting vulnerabilities, this model showcases exceptional autonomous vulnerability discovery, outperforming both Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber and larger frontier models. Furthermore, Google assessed its effectiveness on an internal benchmark that spans complex codebases across 20 programming languages, achieving a success rate of over 70% in identifying various vulnerabilities. Unlike many models that focus on offensive strategies, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber emphasizes the importance of fixing vulnerabilities, providing defenders with advanced tools that enhance their ability to stay ahead of cyber attackers. This focus on proactive defense represents a crucial shift in the cybersecurity landscape, prioritizing the safeguarding of systems over mere exploitation capabilities.

Atlas represents an advanced omni world model designed for spatial intelligence, seamlessly engaging with text, images, video, and 3D data. As a sophisticated multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, it integrates various inputs into a common spatial framework while predicting subsequent elements and ensuring coherence in 3D with its observations and creative visions. This powerful model facilitates world generation, reconstruction, and simulation across diverse applications. It possesses the capability to produce images and videos based on one or multiple reference images, offering precise camera control to yield lengthy and coherent videos following custom-designed camera trajectories. In terms of spatial reconstruction, Atlas excels at reimagining real-world environments from limited input images, allowing it to generate unique perspectives and deliver explicit 3D outputs like point clouds and 3D Gaussian splats. With the addition of more input views, the model can further enhance context, leading to increasingly accurate reconstructions with less reliance on imagination. Furthermore, Atlas also analyzes and predicts the evolution of worlds over time, adding a dynamic layer to its capabilities.

K2 Horizon comprises a network of six open models, including the 375B-A23B, 36B-A4B, 32B, 7B, 3.7B, and 0.9B, all engineered to excel in various domains such as reasoning, mathematics, coding, agentic tasks, and overall capabilities. These models share a unified architecture, vocabulary, training techniques, interfaces, evaluation frameworks, and deployment tools, facilitating seamless transitions between sizes and dynamic workload management. The fleet's flagship, the 375B-A23B model, is particularly adept at handling intricate reasoning, software development, research projects, and long-term agentic functions, while the 32B and 36B-A4B models focus on delivering robust local deployment solutions. Notably, the 36B-A4B model features an innovative Mixture-of-Value Attention mechanism, which merges sparse attention with Mixture-of-Experts layers, allowing it to engage approximately 4 billion parameters per token and compete closely with the performance of the denser 32B model. This architecture not only enhances flexibility but also maximizes resource efficiency across a wide range of applications.

MAI-Transcribe-2 represents the pinnacle of Microsoft AI's transcription capabilities, engineered to provide rapid and precise speech recognition across various real-world audio scenarios. This model includes features like speaker diarization, enabling it to differentiate between speakers and correctly attribute dialogue, as well as offering word-level timestamps for enhanced alignment, searching, navigation, and editing purposes. Additionally, it utilizes keyword biasing to improve the recognition of specialized terms, abbreviations, and names that may otherwise be challenging to identify from their contextual usage. Developers are afforded the flexibility to select from different transcription styles: a verbatim option that retains filler words and false starts for thorough analysis and compliance, or a clean option that eliminates such elements for clearer captions and more polished published transcripts. Furthermore, the model is adept at handling code-switching, seamlessly transitioning between languages during conversations, even accommodating mixed language combinations like Hinglish and Spanglish, while automatically identifying the language being spoken. This makes MAI-Transcribe-2 an invaluable tool for diverse linguistic environments and applications.

Mercury 2.5 represents the pinnacle of production models from Inception, demonstrating a remarkable enhancement in quality compared to its predecessor, Mercury 2, all while upholding an impressive low-latency serving profile. It stands out as the most advanced diffusion language model currently available and is touted by Inception as the largest diffusion LLM ever developed. With a 40% boost in intelligence over Mercury 2, its performance aligns closely with that of cost-efficient frontier models like GPT-5.6 Luna (Low), Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Claude Haiku 4.5. The model boasts a generation speed of 1,107 tokens per second on commonly accessible NVIDIA GPUs and accommodates a generous 260K-token context window. Among its features are adjustable reasoning capabilities, simultaneous tool calls, and JSON that aligns with schemas. Specifically engineered for latency-sensitive tasks, it is well-suited for scenarios involving numerous model calls during a single interaction. In applications such as search agents and RAG pipelines, Mercury 2.5 excels in functions like planning, query rewriting, re-ranking, fact structuring, source summarization, and answer verification, all while ensuring rapid response times, making it an essential tool for developers seeking efficiency in their workflows.

Grok 4.8 is an upcoming large language model from xAI designed to continue the company’s push toward more capable coding, reasoning, knowledge work, and autonomous AI agents. Elon Musk has stated that Grok 4.8 uses approximately 2.5 trillion parameters, making it larger than the 2.1-trillion-parameter Grok 4.7 model previously discussed. The model is also being trained on a new C++ software stack that xAI expects to use for its next generation of large-scale training runs. Initial model training is expected to finish before reinforcement learning and additional post-training work begin, meaning the final production model is not yet available. Based on the current Grok generation, Grok 4.8 is likely to emphasize software engineering, agentic tool use, professional knowledge work, image understanding, and complex multi-step reasoning. Grok 4.7 currently supports configurable reasoning levels and a 500,000-token context window, providing a baseline for the capabilities xAI is developing further. Grok 4.8 may also become an important model for products such as Grok Build and Grok Bot, where stronger reasoning and tool coordination can support longer autonomous workflows. xAI has not published official Grok 4.8 benchmarks, pricing, context limits, API details, or an exact release date. Grok 4.8 is expected to serve developers, engineering teams, researchers, enterprises, and AI agent builders seeking frontier-level performance across technical and professional tasks.

StepAudio 3 represents the latest advancement in StepFun's audio model series, designed to comprehend, produce, and engage through various auditory forms including voice, sound, and music. This family features several specialized models: StepAudio 3 Realtime for seamless full-duplex dialogue, StepAudio 3 ASR for accurate speech recognition, StepAudio 3 TTS for effective speech synthesis, StepAudio 3 Gen for versatile audio generation, and StepAudio 3 Music for creating extended musical pieces. The Realtime model employs a continuous cycle of listening, conversing, thinking, and acting, adeptly interpreting not just spoken words but also nuances such as hesitation, laughter, emotions, pauses, backchannels, and interruptions. Unlike traditional systems, it can process information while articulating responses, tackle complex inquiries without disrupting the conversation, and utilize tools to fulfill tasks once it grasps the user's intent. Moreover, StepAudio 3 Gen integrates various functions like zero-shot TTS, voice design, vocal generation, sound effects, and mixed audio generation into a single cohesive framework, whereas StepAudio 3 Music allows for the creation of text-controlled songs, instrumental pieces, and vocal arrangements, making it a comprehensive tool for audio creativity. This innovative collection emphasizes the blend of interaction and creativity, pushing the boundaries of what audio models can achieve.

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash represents an innovative omnimodal model crafted to enhance the capabilities of agents in practical productivity environments, evolving from simple comprehension of multimodal materials to executing tasks, utilizing tools, and engaging in creative endeavors. This model is built on the advanced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next architecture and can process text, images, audio, and video inputs with an impressive context window of up to 1 million tokens while ensuring robust performance in text-based tasks. It goes beyond mere coding and knowledge work, also enriching workflows related to audio and video by facilitating activities such as video editing, the creation of music videos, film commentary, audiovisual summarization, and live conversations. Notably, the model enhances the understanding of long-form audio and video through structured descriptions, effective evidence collection by agents, comprehension of meetings, and in-depth research focused on video content. Users have the flexibility to define parameters such as subject, time frame, detail level, and desired output format for video evaluations, paving the way for detailed overviews and tailored analyses. This versatility makes it a powerful tool for both professionals and creatives looking to maximize their productivity across various multimedia platforms.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is a generative text-to-speech model from Google designed for expressive voice creation, character design, dialogue direction, and multilingual audio production. Instead of limiting users to fixed voice presets, the model can create entirely new vocal identities from natural-language descriptions. Developers and creators can specify attributes such as accent, role, timbre, speaking style, pacing, and other voice characteristics across more than 100 languages and dialects. The model also offers access to more than 2,000 production-ready voices and supports voice replication from a short authorized audio sample. Performance controls allow users to direct individual lines with stage directions, pacing instructions, dialect shifts, emotional cues, and conversational backchanneling. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS supports long-form generation while maintaining voice consistency, making it suitable for podcasts, audiobooks, localization, and other extended audio projects. Native two-speaker scene support lets users create multi-turn conversations from a single script while preserving distinct voices and natural turn-taking. Google includes consent verification, SynthID watermarking, and C2PA credentials to provide greater transparency and safeguards around generated and replicated voices. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS can be used through Google AI Studio and the Gemini API and is intended for developers, creators, enterprises, media companies, and teams building expressive speech experiences.

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS is an expressive text-to-speech model from Google optimized for high-volume, cost-efficient speech generation. It is designed for workloads such as global dubbing, large-scale audio content production, localization, and conversational voice agents. Users can control characteristics such as tone, pacing, emphasis, and expressive nuance to shape how generated speech is delivered. Line-by-line direction allows scripts to include performance instructions and natural speech cues rather than producing uniformly spoken narration. The model supports long-form generation and is designed to preserve voice quality, natural pacing, and character consistency across extended audio. Native two-speaker staging allows developers and creators to generate multi-turn conversations while keeping speakers distinct and maintaining natural turn-taking. Scripted cues can introduce laughs, sighs, gasps, and listening responses such as “mhm” or “yeah” to make dialogue more conversational. Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS supports more than 100 languages and is designed for multilingual audio experiences at global scale, while generated Gemini Audio output includes SynthID watermarking for transparency. Developers can access the model through Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, with integration into Google Vids and planned API availability through Gemini Enterprise.

FLUX 3 Action is a versatile 7B world-action model aimed at enhancing action prediction for robotics and other environments with high latency demands. This model is built upon the multimodal FLUX 3 backbone and has undergone extensive pretraining on vast datasets encompassing images, videos, and audio, with a notable focus on video content. It then goes through a phase of joint video-action training and fine-tuning tailored to specific robotic applications and action frameworks. By utilizing instructions, visual input from cameras, and robot joint angles, FLUX 3 Action is capable of predicting motor commands alongside anticipated visual outcomes, enabling robots to perform actions, reassess their surroundings, and iterate on their plans. This approach contrasts with methods that treat visual prediction and control as separate processes, as FLUX 3 Action integrates future video predictions with action commands, effectively leveraging knowledge gained from extensive video pretraining to refine robot control mechanisms. Impressively, its single-step 7B model achieves a success rate of 38.3% on the RoboLab-120 benchmark, showcasing its effectiveness in real-world applications. Furthermore, this innovative integration of action and perception marks a significant advancement in the field of robotic control.

BLOOM is a sophisticated autoregressive language model designed to extend text based on given prompts, leveraging extensive text data and significant computational power. This capability allows it to generate coherent and contextually relevant content in 46 different languages, along with 13 programming languages, often making it difficult to differentiate its output from that of a human author. Furthermore, BLOOM's versatility enables it to tackle various text-related challenges, even those it has not been specifically trained on, by interpreting them as tasks of text generation. Its adaptability makes it a valuable tool for a range of applications across multiple domains.

NVIDIA NeMo Megatron serves as a comprehensive framework designed for the training and deployment of large language models (LLMs) that can range from billions to trillions of parameters. As a integral component of the NVIDIA AI platform, it provides a streamlined, efficient, and cost-effective solution in a containerized format for constructing and deploying LLMs. Tailored for enterprise application development, the framework leverages cutting-edge technologies stemming from NVIDIA research and offers a complete workflow that automates distributed data processing, facilitates the training of large-scale custom models like GPT-3, T5, and multilingual T5 (mT5), and supports model deployment for large-scale inference. The process of utilizing LLMs becomes straightforward with the availability of validated recipes and predefined configurations that streamline both training and inference. Additionally, the hyperparameter optimization tool simplifies the customization of models by automatically exploring the optimal hyperparameter configurations, enhancing performance for training and inference across various distributed GPU cluster setups. This approach not only saves time but also ensures that users can achieve superior results with minimal effort.

ALBERT is a self-supervised Transformer architecture that undergoes pretraining on a vast dataset of English text, eliminating the need for manual annotations by employing an automated method to create inputs and corresponding labels from unprocessed text. This model is designed with two primary training objectives in mind. The first objective, known as Masked Language Modeling (MLM), involves randomly obscuring 15% of the words in a given sentence and challenging the model to accurately predict those masked words. This approach sets it apart from recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and autoregressive models such as GPT, as it enables ALBERT to capture bidirectional representations of sentences. The second training objective is Sentence Ordering Prediction (SOP), which focuses on the task of determining the correct sequence of two adjacent text segments during the pretraining phase. By incorporating these dual objectives, ALBERT enhances its understanding of language structure and contextual relationships. This innovative design contributes to its effectiveness in various natural language processing tasks.

Pre-trained language models have made significant strides, achieving top-tier performance across multiple Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. The impressive capabilities of GPT-3 highlight how increasing the scale of these models can unlock their vast potential. Recently, a comprehensive framework known as ERNIE 3.0 was introduced to pre-train large-scale models enriched with knowledge, culminating in a model boasting 10 billion parameters. This iteration of ERNIE 3.0 has surpassed the performance of existing leading models in a variety of NLP tasks. To further assess the effects of scaling, we have developed an even larger model called ERNIE 3.0 Titan, which consists of up to 260 billion parameters and is built on the PaddlePaddle platform. Additionally, we have implemented a self-supervised adversarial loss alongside a controllable language modeling loss, enabling ERNIE 3.0 Titan to produce texts that are both reliable and modifiable, thus pushing the boundaries of what these models can achieve. This approach not only enhances the model's capabilities but also opens new avenues for research in text generation and control.

EXAONE is an advanced language model created by LG AI Research, designed to cultivate "Expert AI" across various fields. To enhance EXAONE's capabilities, the Expert AI Alliance was established, bringing together prominent companies from diverse sectors to collaborate. These partner organizations will act as mentors, sharing their expertise, skills, and data to support EXAONE in becoming proficient in specific domains. Much like a college student who has finished general courses, EXAONE requires further focused training to achieve true expertise. LG AI Research has already showcased EXAONE's potential through practical implementations, including Tilda, an AI human artist that made its debut at New York Fashion Week, and AI tools that summarize customer service interactions as well as extract insights from intricate academic papers. This initiative not only highlights the innovative applications of AI but also emphasizes the importance of collaborative efforts in advancing technology.

Jurassic-1 offers two model sizes, with the Jumbo variant being the largest at 178 billion parameters, representing the pinnacle of complexity in language models released for developers. Currently, AI21 Studio is in an open beta phase, inviting users to register and begin exploring Jurassic-1 through an accessible API and an interactive web platform. At AI21 Labs, our goal is to revolutionize how people engage with reading and writing by integrating machines as cognitive collaborators, a vision that requires collective effort to realize. Our exploration of language models dates back to what we refer to as our Mesozoic Era (2017 😉). Building upon this foundational research, Jurassic-1 marks the inaugural series of models we are now offering for broad public application. As we move forward, we are excited to see how users will leverage these advancements in their own creative processes.

Instruction-following models like GPT-3.5 (text-DaVinci-003), ChatGPT, Claude, and Bing Chat have seen significant advancements in their capabilities, leading to a rise in their usage among individuals in both personal and professional contexts. Despite their growing popularity and integration into daily tasks, these models are not without their shortcomings, as they can sometimes disseminate inaccurate information, reinforce harmful stereotypes, and use inappropriate language. To effectively tackle these critical issues, it is essential for researchers and scholars to become actively involved in exploring these models further. However, conducting research on instruction-following models within academic settings has posed challenges due to the unavailability of models with comparable functionality to proprietary options like OpenAI’s text-DaVinci-003. In response to this gap, we are presenting our insights on an instruction-following language model named Alpaca, which has been fine-tuned from Meta’s LLaMA 7B model, aiming to contribute to the discourse and development in this field. This initiative represents a step towards enhancing the understanding and capabilities of instruction-following models in a more accessible manner for researchers.

GradientJ offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to facilitate the rapid development of large language model applications, ensuring their long-term management. You can explore and optimize your prompts by saving different versions and evaluating them against established benchmarks. Additionally, you can streamline the orchestration of intricate applications by linking prompts and knowledge sources into sophisticated APIs. Moreover, boosting the precision of your models is achievable through the incorporation of your unique data assets, thus enhancing overall performance. This platform empowers developers to innovate and refine their models continuously.

Huawei has created an AI chatbot known as PanGu Chat, which is capable of engaging in human-like conversations and providing answers to inquiries in a manner similar to ChatGPT. This technology aims to enhance user interaction by simulating natural dialogue.