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Carl Franzen

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Observe launches VoiceAI agents to automate customer call centers with realistic, humanlike voices that don’t interrupt

Observe launches VoiceAI agents to automate customer call centers with realistic, humanlike voices that don’t interrupt

Carl Franzen March 26, 2025 6:47 AM
‘Insane’: OpenAI introduces GPT-4o native image generation and it’s already wowing users

‘Insane’: OpenAI introduces GPT-4o native image generation and it’s already wowing users

Carl Franzen March 25, 2025 12:10 PM
The new best AI image generation model is here: say hello to Reve Image 1.0!

The new best AI image generation model is here: say hello to Reve Image 1.0!

Carl Franzen March 25, 2025 8:22 AM
Midjourney’s surprise: new research on making LLMs write more creatively

Midjourney’s surprise: new research on making LLMs write more creatively

Carl Franzen March 24, 2025 2:36 PM
OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds

OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds

Carl Franzen March 20, 2025 11:21 AM
Carbon Arc offers a marketplace for buying and selling licensed, real world transaction data to power LLMs and enterprise applications

Carbon Arc offers a marketplace for buying and selling licensed, real world transaction data to power LLMs and enterprise applications

Carl Franzen March 20, 2025 7:33 AM
Adobe previews AI generated PowerPoints from raw customer data with ‘Project Slide Wow’
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Adobe previews AI generated PowerPoints from raw customer data with ‘Project Slide Wow’

Carl Franzen March 19, 2025 9:45 AM
GPUs go biological: BBB unveils Bionode, lab-grown, living neuron compute for AI applications

GPUs go biological: BBB unveils Bionode, lab-grown, living neuron compute for AI applications

Carl Franzen March 18, 2025 11:47 AM
Orion Security emerges from stealth using LLMs to track your enterprise’s data flow and stop it from leaking out

Orion Security emerges from stealth using LLMs to track your enterprise’s data flow and stop it from leaking out

Carl Franzen March 18, 2025 7:48 AM
Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

Carl Franzen March 17, 2025 3:48 PM
Moonvalley’s Marey is a state-of-the-art AI video model trained on FULLY LICENSED data

Moonvalley’s Marey is a state-of-the-art AI video model trained on FULLY LICENSED data

Carl Franzen March 14, 2025 7:13 AM
Cohere targets global enterprises with new highly multilingual Command A model requiring only 2 GPUs

Cohere targets global enterprises with new highly multilingual Command A model requiring only 2 GPUs

Carl Franzen March 13, 2025 8:28 AM
Google’s native multimodal AI image generation in Gemini 2.0 Flash impresses with fast edits, style transfers

Google’s native multimodal AI image generation in Gemini 2.0 Flash impresses with fast edits, style transfers

Carl Franzen March 12, 2025 4:03 PM
OpenAI unveils Responses API, open source Agents SDK, letting developers build their own Deep Research and Operator

OpenAI unveils Responses API, open source Agents SDK, letting developers build their own Deep Research and Operator

Carl Franzen March 11, 2025 10:23 AM
CRM provider Creatio launches first ‘AI native’ platform with agentic digital talent built-in
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CRM provider Creatio launches first ‘AI native’ platform with agentic digital talent built-in

Carl Franzen March 11, 2025 6:23 AM
GenLayer offers novel approach for AI agent transactions: getting multiple LLMs to vote on a suitable contract

GenLayer offers novel approach for AI agent transactions: getting multiple LLMs to vote on a suitable contract

Carl Franzen March 10, 2025 4:07 PM
What you need to know about Manus, the new AI agentic system from China hailed as a second ‘DeepSeek moment’

What you need to know about Manus, the new AI agentic system from China hailed as a second ‘DeepSeek moment’

Carl Franzen March 10, 2025 10:29 AM
Mistral releases new optical character recognition (OCR) API claiming top performance globally

Mistral releases new optical character recognition (OCR) API claiming top performance globally

Carl Franzen March 6, 2025 2:22 PM
Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements

Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements

Carl Franzen March 5, 2025 3:06 PM
New open-source math model Light-R1-32B surpasses equivalent DeepSeek performance with only $1000 in training costs

New open-source math model Light-R1-32B surpasses equivalent DeepSeek performance with only $1000 in training costs

Carl Franzen March 5, 2025 11:35 AM
Cohere’s first vision model Aya Vision is here with broad, multilingual understanding and open weights — but there’s a catch

Cohere’s first vision model Aya Vision is here with broad, multilingual understanding and open weights — but there’s a catch

Carl Franzen March 4, 2025 8:23 AM
Google launches free Gemini-powered Data Science Agent on its Colab Python platform
Analysis

Google launches free Gemini-powered Data Science Agent on its Colab Python platform

Carl Franzen March 3, 2025 12:14 PM
OpenAI releases ‘largest, most knowledgable’ model GPT-4.5 with reduced hallucinations and high API price

OpenAI releases ‘largest, most knowledgable’ model GPT-4.5 with reduced hallucinations and high API price

Carl Franzen February 27, 2025 12:25 PM
Qodo’s open code embedding model sets new enterprise standard, beating OpenAI, Salesforce

Qodo’s open code embedding model sets new enterprise standard, beating OpenAI, Salesforce

Carl Franzen February 27, 2025 7:00 AM
ElevenLabs’ new speech-to-text model Scribe is here with highest accuracy rate so far (96.7% for English)

ElevenLabs’ new speech-to-text model Scribe is here with highest accuracy rate so far (96.7% for English)

Carl Franzen February 26, 2025 1:56 PM
Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Carl Franzen February 26, 2025 4:39 AM
Google makes Gemini Code Assist free with 180,000 code completions per month as AI-powered dev race heats up

Google makes Gemini Code Assist free with 180,000 code completions per month as AI-powered dev race heats up

Carl Franzen February 25, 2025 7:38 AM
Adobe launches first Photoshop mobile app and it has amazing Firefly AI-powered object detection, editing, and effects

Adobe launches first Photoshop mobile app and it has amazing Firefly AI-powered object detection, editing, and effects

Carl Franzen February 25, 2025 6:18 AM
xAI’s new Grok 3 model criticized for blocking sources that call Musk, Trump top spreaders of misinformation
Analysis

xAI’s new Grok 3 model criticized for blocking sources that call Musk, Trump top spreaders of misinformation

Carl Franzen February 24, 2025 7:00 AM
Sawmills emerges from stealth to trim enterprise observability costs and provide telemetry data sovereignty
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Sawmills emerges from stealth to trim enterprise observability costs and provide telemetry data sovereignty

Carl Franzen February 19, 2025 6:30 AM
‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3

‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3

Carl Franzen February 14, 2025 12:04 PM
PIN AI launches mobile app letting you make your own personalized, private DeepSeek or Llama-powered AI model on your phone

PIN AI launches mobile app letting you make your own personalized, private DeepSeek or Llama-powered AI model on your phone

Carl Franzen February 13, 2025 9:09 AM
Don’t sleep on Google Gemini’s Deep Research mode: 8 examples of informative reports
Analysis

Don’t sleep on Google Gemini’s Deep Research mode: 8 examples of informative reports

Carl Franzen February 13, 2025 7:17 AM
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares plans to bring o3 Deep Research agent to free and ChatGPT Plus users

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares plans to bring o3 Deep Research agent to free and ChatGPT Plus users

Carl Franzen February 12, 2025 6:56 AM
ConverzAI bags $16M for virtual recruiters that deliver 30% efficiency boost for enterprises

ConverzAI bags $16M for virtual recruiters that deliver 30% efficiency boost for enterprises

Carl Franzen February 11, 2025 6:27 AM
Would you stop using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and API if Elon Musk took it over?
Analysis

Would you stop using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and API if Elon Musk took it over?

Carl Franzen February 10, 2025 3:35 PM
Decoding OpenAI’s Super Bowl ad and Sam Altman’s grandiose blog post
Analysis

Decoding OpenAI’s Super Bowl ad and Sam Altman’s grandiose blog post

Carl Franzen February 10, 2025 8:27 AM
French AI startup Mistral launches Le Chat mobile app for iPhone, Android — can it take enterprise eyes off DeepSeek?
Analysis

French AI startup Mistral launches Le Chat mobile app for iPhone, Android — can it take enterprise eyes off DeepSeek?

Carl Franzen February 6, 2025 12:09 PM
Google launches Gemini 2.0 Pro, Flash-Lite and connects reasoning model Flash Thinking to YouTube, Maps and Search

Google launches Gemini 2.0 Pro, Flash-Lite and connects reasoning model Flash Thinking to YouTube, Maps and Search

Carl Franzen February 5, 2025 11:07 AM
OpenAI’s surprise new o3-powered ‘Deep Research’ mode shows the power of the AI agent era

OpenAI’s surprise new o3-powered ‘Deep Research’ mode shows the power of the AI agent era

Carl Franzen February 3, 2025 8:03 AM
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