🚀 RELEASES & LAUNCHES
- Tencent releases AuK-Flash, a 4-step open-source speech model
Tencent released AuK-Flash, a distilled model for fast speech generation and editing.- Developers and researchers building speech, audio-editing, enhancement, and separation tools can use AuK and AuK-Flash.
- AuK is a 1.5B-parameter model supporting zero-shot and instruction-based TTS, content and acoustic editing, paralinguistic editing, enhancement, and source separation.
- AuK-Flash uses 4-step inference without classifier-free guidance and runs 4.5 times faster than the full model under matched conditions.
- The code and model weights are publicly available under the MIT License, enabling local deployment and further research.
💰 BUSINESS & FUNDING
- Anthropic CEO proposes slowing frontier AI development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-step plan to slow frontier AI development.- The plan targets AI companies, governments, regulators, and third-party evaluators such as METR.
- Anthropic will give external evaluators wider access to its models to assess safety practices and commitments.
- The proposal calls for industry safety standards, limits on unchecked progress, and eventually global cooperation.
- Amodei cited recursive self-improvement and recent autonomous AI agent incidents as reasons to pace development.
Sources 📎 Coverage: theverge.com · 👁 via The Verge AI, TechCrunch AI