Corti's new Symphony for Speech-to-Text model beats OpenAI at medical terminology accuracy, highlighting the value of specialized AI

Today, Copenhagen-based healthcare AI Corti is launching Symphony for Speech-to-Text, a new generation of clinical-grade speech recognition models engineered specifically for real-time dictation, conv [...]

Why your LLM bill is exploding — and how semantic caching can cut it by 73%

Our LLM API bill was growing 30% month-over-month. Traffic was increasing, but not that fast. When I analyzed our query logs, I found the real problem: Users ask the same questions in different ways.& [...]

Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

AI vibe coders have yet another reason to thank Andrej Karpathy, the coiner of the term. The former Director of AI at Tesla and co-founder of OpenAI, now running his own independent AI project, recent [...]

A weekend ‘vibe code’ hack by Andrej Karpathy quietly sketches the missing layer of enterprise AI orchestration

This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI, decided he wanted to read a book. But he did not want to read it alone. He wanted to read it accompan [...]

The enterprise voice AI split: Why architecture — not model quality — defines your compliance posture

For the past year, enterprise decision-makers have faced a rigid architectural trade-off in voice AI: adopt a "Native" speech-to-speech (S2S) model for speed and emotional fidelity, or stick [...]

Under the hood of AI agents: A technical guide to the next frontier of gen AI

Agents are the trendiest topic in AI today — and with good reason. Taking gen AI out of the protected sandbox of the chat interface and allowing it to act directly on the world represents a leap for [...]

Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversat [...]

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate plat [...]

Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architectu [...]