I read the Arxiv paper on CulturaX so you don't have to. Here's my highlights: New open dataset called CulturaX contains text data for 167 languages – far more than previous datasets. With over 6 trillion words, it's the largest multilingu…

If you're creating voice-enabled products, I hope this will help you choose which model to use! I read the papers and docs for Bark and Tortoise TTS – two text-to-speech models that seemed pretty similar on the surface but are actually pretty diffe…

I wrote an in-depth article exploring Vicuna as an alternative to competitor LLMs like ChatGPT, Alpaca, and LLaMA for chat applications. I based it off the research data on the LMSYS.org website and the Github repo for the project. Key findings: Vicun…

I got inspired by a twitter thread yesterday from Chase Lean on how to create illustrations for children's books using Midjourney and thought it might be cool to look at a slightly different use case – creating coloring books for grown-ups. I made …

LDM stands for Latent Diffusion Model. AudioLDM is a novel AI system that uses latent diffusion to generate high-quality speech, sound effects, and music from text prompts. It can either create sounds from just text or use text prompts to guide the man…

I've collected a half-dozen threads on Twitter from this subreddit of user complaints since March about the degraded quality of GPT outputs. I've noticed a huge drop in quality myself. A common (reasonable) response from some people was that th…