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Alibaba’s Qwen3‑ASR family — a new advanced set of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models — has been officially open sourced, alongside a novel non‑autoregressive forced alignment model, Qwen3‑ForcedAligner. These models are designed as production‑ready, all‑in‑one speech intelligence systems that work across a wide range of languages and real‑world audio conditions. (Qwen) Here’s what’s notable about […]

⚠️ WARNING: OpenClaw is powerful but potentially dangerous.It requires deep access to your personal tools — calendars, email, messaging apps, APIs — and can pose serious security risks if misconfigured or poorly secured. It’s intended for technical users who understand system-level security and privacy implications. Proceed with caution. OpenClaw (openclaw.ai) is a powerful open-source AI […]

Qwen3‑TTS is a new open‑source suite of advanced text‑to‑speech models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team. It brings cutting‑edge speech synthesis capabilities — including voice cloning, voice design, and multilingual generation — to developers, researchers, and creators. (qwen.ai) 🔑 Key Highlights Open‑Source Release• The entire Qwen3‑TTS model family is published under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning […]

HeartMuLa is an open-source suite of AI models focused on music understanding and generation. It’s designed to help researchers and creators synthesize high-quality music using rich user prompts such as lyrics, style descriptions, and even reference audio. (HeartMuLa) 🎼 Core Components The HeartMuLa project includes four major technical components: (HeartMuLa) These models work together to […]

Pocket TTS is a 100-million-parameter open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model developed by Kyutai that runs efficiently on CPUs in real time and supports high-quality voice cloning. (eWeek) Key Highlights ⚡ CPU-First, Real-Time TTS 🗣️ Voice Cloning 📦 Compact and Efficient 📡 Technical Innovation — Continuous Audio Language Models 📜 Open Science & Accessibility 🔒 Privacy and […]

GLM-Image is a new open-source, industrial-grade image generation model recently released by Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai. It was introduced on January 14, 2026.(Z.ai) This model is designed to create high-quality images from text prompts and also supports a range of image-to-image tasks like editing, style transfer, and consistent character generation.(Z.ai) 🔧 How GLM-Image Works […]

LTX-2 is an advanced AI video and audio generation foundation model developed by Lightricks. It’s designed to generate high-fidelity videos with synchronized audio — meaning visuals and sound are created together in a single model rather than stitched after the fact. (LTX) 🎯 Core Capabilities LTX-2 supports: In other words, it can turn a detailed […]

Music Flamingo is a cutting-edge research project by NVIDIA’s Applied Deep Learning Research (ADLR) group that advances how AI systems understand music audio — not just speech. (NVIDIA) 🌟 What It Is 📌 Key Innovations 🚀 Performance 🧠 Why It Matters Music Flamingo represents a new direction in audio intelligence where AI not only detects […]

Tencent has officially open-sourced Tencent HY-MT1.5, a new generation of multilingual machine translation models, giving developers and researchers free access to high-quality translation technology that can run locally on consumer hardware. The release was announced to the AI community through Reddit’s r/LocalLLaMA and quickly gained attention due to its strong performance, small memory footprint, and […]

Tencent has released HY-Motion 1.0, a new open-source text-to-motion generation model with over one billion parameters, marking a major step forward for AI-driven animation and 3D content creation. HY-Motion 1.0 allows users to generate high-quality 3D skeletal motion directly from natural-language prompts such as “a person plays the piano” or “a character performs a jazz […]

RITS 2025 Year in Review 2025 Year in Review RITS @ NYU Shanghai • AI & Emerging Tech 142 Total Posts 4 Quarters 50+ AI Models Covered 365 Days of Innovation Q1 The DeepSeek Revolution January – March 2025 • 16 Posts January 21 DeepSeek R1 Goes Open Source The open-source release that shocked the […]

GPT-5.2 is the newest generation in the GPT-5 family of models from OpenAI, released on December 11, 2025. It’s designed to be significantly more powerful and reliable than previous versions — especially for professional knowledge work, long-context reasoning, tool use, and complex multimodal tasks. (OpenAI) 🧠 Key Improvements in GPT-5.2 1. Stronger General IntelligenceGPT-5.2 achieves […]