Matthias Bastian
Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.
Read full article about: Listen up: ElevenLabs' AI voice technology secures $80 million in funding for expansion
ElevenLabs, a generative AI voice startup, has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $101 million. According to ElevenLabs, its voice AI is used by 41 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The new funding will be used to accelerate the development and expansion of the company, which already has partnerships with the likes of D-ID, Storytel, and Paradox Interactive. Along with the funding news, the company announced new products, including enhanced controls for its Dubbing Studio, which now offers more options for creating and editing transcripts, as well as translations and timecodes for audio. The Mobile Reader application, currently in testing, converts text or website links into audio. People can offer their voices through the Voice Library marketplace and get paid for their use.
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Source: Elevenlabs
Read full article about: This German open-source LLM can out-reason GPT-3.5, proving sauerkraut might be brain food
DiscoLM German 7b is an open-source German language model based on Mistral. The model is optimized for German texts and understands, generates, and interacts effectively with German-language content, but also retains its English language capabilities and is supposed to be particularly good at translation tasks. In MT Bench, DiscoLM German 7b lags behind GPT-3.5 in writing, but according to the developer, the real quality of the model lies in its German expression, which is not covered by benchmarks, but felt by native speakers. DiscoLM is even ahead of GPT-3.5 in reasoning. The model is also trained for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) applications.
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Source: Demo | Huggingface
Read full article about: Leaked EU AI Act has good news for open-source AI in Europe
Euractiv journalist Luca Bertuzzi has leaked the final text of the EU AI Act. The final yes/no vote is expected to take place in the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) in early February. It seems there is good news for open-source AI: Third parties will be exempt from certain compliance requirements if they provide AI tools, services, processes or components under a free and open license. Exemptions are foundational models. Developers are also encouraged to use common documentation practices such as model maps and datasheets. This should facilitate the exchange of information in the AI value chain and promote the development of trustworthy AI systems in the European Union.
Software and data, including models, released under a free and open-source licence that allows them to be openly shared and where users can freely access, use, modify and redistribute them or modified versions thereof, can contribute to research and innovation in the market and can provide significant growth opportunities for the Union economy.
EU AI Act Draft
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Source: EU AI Act draft | Luca Bertuzzi via LinkedIn
Read full article about: Forget ChatGPT, this AI roulette will have you clicking for hours on end
Goodbye ChatGPT, hello 1000 random AI tools you never knew you needed. As you already know from your favorite generative AI influencer on LinkedIn, ChatGPT is a thing of the past. But 1000 other AI tools will take your productivity and creativity to the next level. Now you can visit Random AI Product to find the AI tool that works best for you. Just click on the button in the middle, and you will be taken to the website of a randomly selected AI tool. Of my 20 or so clicks, almost all were niche image or graphics tools. How long can you click before you've seen a tool twice?
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Source: Random AI product
