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VibeVoice: a new text-to-speech (TTS) model for long-form conversations with multiple voices from Microsoft. • 1.5B parameters • MIT licensed • Up to 1.5 hours of generation • Strong emotional expressiveness More details: VibeVoice is a new framework designed for creating expressive and extended audio recordings of conversations with multiple speakers (such as podcasts) from text. It addresses key issues of traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems, particularly those related to scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. The model can synthesize up to 90 minutes of speech with up to 4 distinct speakers, exceeding the typical limitations of many previous models restricted to 1–2 speakers. Project page: https://microsoft.github.io/VibeVoice/ — lots of examples. You’ll find the weights, code, and even a Gradio demo here: https://86636c494bbddc69c7.gradio.live/

Feel the difference between Nanabanana and other AI generators. One of the prompts on a picture was: 'make only the plate and the soup itself in the style of 2D anime, and don’t touch anything else at all

Runway Game Worlds The name is a bit misleading. It’s more like Runway Comics Worlds or even Runway’s Board Games. Because it goes back to the roots — text-based control. It’s basically text adventures: you write a prompt, the game reacts, but also generates an image of what’s happening. Text games without the need for your imagination. *“Game Worlds uses new AI technologies for nonlinear storytelling. This means that each game session you play is generated in real time with personalized stories, characters, and multimodal media. In the beta version, you can play both pre-made text adventures and create your own.”* https://play.runwayml.com/

Virtual fitting room on VideoX-Fun / Wan2.1-I2V-14B Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct is used for clothing description. And under the hood, there’s also OpenPose, DensePose, and more. If anyone wanted to fine-tune WAN 2.1 for virtual try-on — here it is.

Virtual fitting room on VideoX-Fun / Wan2.1-I2V-14B Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct is used for clothing description. And under the hood, there’s also OpenPose, DensePose, and more. If anyone wanted to fine-tune WAN 2.1 for virtual try-on — here it is.

Qwen Edit vs Nano Banana vs Flux Kontext Pro & Flux Kontext Dev Prompt: Turn the motorcycle pink and put it against the backdrop of a big city at night, glowing with huge neon signs. Banano really delivers! 🚀

Higgsfield keeps dropping viral features. Product-to-Video is basically Flux Context, but for video. Something similar was done by Pika and Runway, but Higgs’ cherry-picks look really polished.

Imagen 4 has been rolled out in Google AI Studio and via the API. And it’s damn good — especially Ultra. AI Studio has limits. And via API, the prices are: Fast ($0.02/image) Standard ($0.04/image) Ultra ($0.06/image)

Suno Studio! Now this is intriguing. At least because of this: Multi-track creation. Export to MIDI. If this is real multitrack — where one track = one instrument — then it’s an absolute bomb that will just wipe out all competitors.

SkyWorks: they’ve released Matrix-3D, a 3D world generator that works through a combination of video generation and 3D reconstruction. It’s sort of a response to Hunyuan World 1 from Tencent, the Odyssey project, and Google’s recently announced Genie 3. You enter a prompt or upload an image, and you get either a video panorama or a 3D scene to explore. The catch is, it seems you’ll have to move through it by setting a trajectory. World 1, judging by the demos, supported a gamepad. Generation can be done at resolutions of 960 × 480 or 1440 × 720. On a single A800 with 40 GB VRAM, rendering 720p takes about an hour...

A cool product feature. A long press on an image turns it into a video. This is the iOS app for Grok. It’s coming to Android soon.

Grok 4 is now free to use! 🎉 Cranks out and edits images like a pro. Update: Free users get 5 requests every 12 hours.

Minimax Speech 2.5 Minimax Text-to-Speech (TTS) Generator: Compared to the Speech 02 version released in May, Speech 2.5 features three new improvements: • Higher speech expressiveness in multiple languages, • More realistic voice reproduction, • Broad coverage of 40 languages. https://www.minimax.io/audio

Midjourney has introduced HD Mode Only available for Pro and Mega subscription plans. Costs 3.2 times more credits. Because… lots of pixels.

👐 The main thing about GPT-5: 🔜 GPT-5 is an intelligent system — depending on the complexity of the request, the model chooses the depth of reasoning. All current models (from GPT-4o mini to o3 Pro) will be replaced by the corresponding branch of GPT-5. 🔜 Available to everyone today, including free users — if the limit is exceeded, they will be transferred to GPT-5 mini. 🔜 The best model for coding on the market. The Pro version scores 100% in the AIME 2025 mathematical benchmark. 🔜 Even the basic model hallucinates significantly less than GPT-4o and o3. 🔜 The model is much less inclined to agree with the user and flatter him. 🔜 GPT-5 was classified as a high-risk model for hazards in biology and chemistry — appropriate measures have been taken. At the same time, the model is 65% safer than its predecessors, and more than 9,000 hours were spent on testing. More details are in the model's system map.

GPT-5 will be shown today If this is not a joke, of course.

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Eleven Music Everyone seems to have gone wild with releases. It's August, vacation season, but everyone's churning out release after release. There have been rumors about music from 11labs for a while now. And now they've rolled it out for everyone. https://elevenlabs.io/app/music