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OpenAI launches next-gen voice AI models built for realtime conversations and tasks

OpenAI has introduced three new audio models through its API, expanding its push into ...

What's Keeping AI From Holding A Conversation?

There's a rhythm to real conversation that no AI product has truly captured yet, and the reason is architectural, not ...

Inworld Launches New Frontier Voice Model That Gives AI Agents Contextual Empathy

Inworld AI launches Realtime TTS-2, a new voice model that adapts tone, pacing, and delivery to the user's emotional state in real time.
Neowin

Microsoft opens-sources GODEL language model for realistic conversations

Microsoft has announced that it is open-sourcing its latest GODEL conversational AI, which enables goal-oriented interactions while still providing external information, just like a real conversation.
Rutland Herald

Deepgram Launches Flux Multilingual: The World’s First Multilingual Conversational Speech Recognition Model

Flux Multilingual is available via Deepgram’s Cloud API or as a self-hosted deployment, with support for EU endpoints, SDKs, and seamless integration into voice agent architectures. Developers can get ...
Business Wire

PlayAI Secures $21 Million in Seed Funding and Releases New Model for Generative AI Conversations

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PlayAI, the voice AI platform powering the future of conversational AI, announced that it has raised a $21 million Seed round led by Kindred Ventures and 500 Global ...
CNBC

Alibaba launches AI model that can understand images and have more complex conversations

Alibaba launched on Friday two new artificial intelligence models — Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat — the company says can understand images and carry out more complex conversations. One example Alibaba gave ...