AI Edition - It's AI Time - 312 [21-02-2025]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 312

Spotify Collaborates with ElevenLabs to Enhance AI-Narrated Audiobooks:

Spotify now allows audiobooks narrated with ElevenLabs' AI voice technology, enabling authors to upload AI-narrated works through Findaway Voices. The feature supports narration in 29 languages, although publishing requires passing a review process.

Together AI Announces $305M Series B:

Together AI announced a $305 million Series B funding round led by General Catalyst and Prosperity7, with participation from investors like NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures. This investment will enhance Together AI's position as a leader in AI Cloud solutions, with a focus on supporting open-source AI models and NVIDIA Blackwell GPU deployment. Together AI's platform enables efficient AI application development, offering enterprise-grade inference, training, and model fine-tuning. The company has planned infrastructure expansions to support rapid ecosystem growth.

An AI Alchemist and His DeepSeek Journey:

Wenfeng Liang, a hedge fund manager, launched DeepSeek, a self-funded open-source AI platform that has rapidly gained global attention for its innovative LLMs like DeepSeek-R1, comparable to OpenAI's models. Using more cost-effective training methods and consumer-grade hardware compatibility, DeepSeek has sparked interest among both major tech companies and small institutions. Liang's focus on open-source AI development, backed by his success with Magic Square Quantitative, emphasizes collaboration and technological progress over commercial pressures.

Flex 1 image generation model:

An interesting side project from the community. This was a model fine-tuned from Flux Schnell, which means it is Apache licensed. It is designed to be fine-tuned at 8B parameters and runs quite quickly while not sacrificing performance.

PyTorch compiler roadmap:

Development roadmap for the next year for the PyTorch compilation team.

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