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StepFun released five StepAudio 3 models on September 15th, giving developers separate APIs for real-time voice interaction, transcription, speech synthesis, general audio generation and music. Artificial Analysis ranks …
A set of mathematical formulas has been published for evaluating how strongly AI models associate brands with industry verticals, using length-normalized association log-likelihood, softmax choice probability, and direct…
Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two voice models from the Gemini Audio Team that pair spoken conversation with parallel reasoning. Extended Thinking leads Artificial Analysis' Spe…
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which it calls its "most advanced live dialogue models yet," following the March launch of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking …
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models, available today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio at $0.005/min for audio input. Gemini 3.8 Live Extende…
Supervised fine-tuning raised a small language model's semantic simplicity from 65.82% to 85.46% and technical adequacy from 68.30% to 70.15%, but introduced repetitive loops under greedy decoding, according to a technic…
TechRepublic named ZoomInfo its top pick among seven leading conversation intelligence platforms for B2B sales teams in 2026, citing the company's Chorus product for combining call analysis with ZoomInfo's account, conta…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two audio-focused models built for near real-time voice conversations. Gemini 3.8 Live targets high-volume, cost-effective voice interacti…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15th, two audio-to-audio models for voice agents that can process visual input, reason and call external tools mid-conversatio…
A developer published a hands-on deep dive into Microsoft's Document Intelligence SDK (formerly Form Recognizer), demonstrating how to convert scanned invoices, contracts, and receipts into structured data for RAG pipeli…
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two live audio models that Google says top Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index at 82.6% and cost $0.84 and $3.50 per hour of…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, an audio-to-audio model that performs background reasoning and asynchronous tool calls while streaming continuous audio, with a 131,072-token input limit and 65,536-toke…
GoogleDeepMind unveiled Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two audio models built to enable natural voice applications that let users perform complex tasks while maintaining an uninterrupted conversat…
In 200-dimensional word embeddings such as gensim's glove-twitter-200, a cosine similarity of 0.656 — corresponding to an angle of about 49° — counts as a large similarity, according to an analysis by John D. Cook. The v…
New research has found that autonomous AI agents are rapidly developing novel dialects of English that mix poetic language with tech bro jargon, making their conversations often barely comprehensible to humans, according…
Google said its technologies and products now power everyday interactions in more than 300 languages spoken by more than 7 billion people, or 86% of the global population, and that Gemini 3.5 Live Translate handles real-…
Few-shot prompting with three to five high-quality examples can fix classification errors that zero-shot prompts produce in LLM applications, according to a developer account published on PromptCube. The author reported …
Researchers submitted the StepAudio 3 Gen technical report to arXiv on 11 Sep 2026, introducing a general-purpose audio generation model that supports zero-shot text-to-speech, voice design, vocal generation, sound effec…
Large language models have no persistent personal memory of past interactions, and any apparent recall is handled by the application built around the model rather than the model itself, according to a technical explainer…
A Hacker News user posting as tonyvince7 asked why large language models consistently pick 17 when prompted to choose a number between 1 and 30, saying the behavior appeared across multiple models. The Ask HN post, submi…