GLM 5.2 Released
Hacker News (AI keywords)12 hours agoReleaseZhipu AI has released GLM 5.2, a point update to its flagship General Language Model series. GLM models are widely used for multilingual tasks, particularly in Chinese-language applications, and are available both as a commercial API and as open-weight downloads. The release was noted on Hacker News, though specific feature changes, benchmark results, and technical details for version 5.2 were not available from the source.
Can Voice Agents Handle Bilingual Customers? Benchmarking Frontier ASR on Code-Switched Speech
Hugging Face Blog4 days agoBenchmarkCode-switching—where bilingual speakers blend two languages in a single utterance—is common in markets like Taiwan, Singapore, and India, yet most ASR benchmarks focus on monolingual audio. ServiceNow AI evaluates frontier speech recognition models specifically on this mixed-language scenario. The findings help enterprise teams make informed ASR model choices when deploying voice agents for multilingual customer-facing applications.
Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
Google DeepMind Blog5 days agoReleaseGoogle DeepMind has released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, bringing near real-time and naturally flowing voice translation to three major Google platforms. The feature integrates into Google AI Studio for developers, Google Translate for general users, and Google Meet for remote collaboration. The emphasis on naturalness — not just speed — marks a meaningful step forward for AI-powered multilingual communication.
Cohere and Mila Partner to Advance Quebec French Language and Culture in AI
Cohere Blog6 days agoBusinessCohere has partnered with Mila, the Quebec AI Institute, to improve the representation of Quebec French (Québécois) and its cultural nuances in AI. The collaboration aims to address the European French bias in current models by leveraging Cohere's multilingual capabilities and Mila's research expertise. This initiative will help deliver more culturally accurate AI solutions for Quebec's public and private sectors.
Introducing Cohere Transcribe: A New State-of-the-Art in Open-Source Speech Recognition★ 80
Cohere Blog6 days agoReleaseCohere has announced "Cohere Transcribe," a new state-of-the-art open-source speech recognition model. Designed to deliver highly accurate and efficient speech-to-text capabilities, it represents Cohere's expansion into open-source audio AI. The model aims to challenge existing industry benchmarks like OpenAI's Whisper by offering superior multilingual performance.
Cohere Blog: Technology Tag Page Overview
Cohere Blog6 days agoCommentaryThis page aggregates all technology-focused articles on the Cohere blog. As an enterprise-focused AI company, Cohere's technical content primarily covers its Command LLM family, industry-leading Embed and Rerank models, and practical RAG implementation guides. It serves as a key resource for developers and enterprise architects tracking Cohere's technical evolution.
RWS and Cohere Partner to Deliver High-Performance Enterprise AI Language Intelligence
Cohere Blog6 days agoBusinessCohere has partnered with RWS, a global leader in translation and localization services, to deliver high-performance AI language intelligence for enterprises. The collaboration integrates Cohere's multilingual models (like Command R) into RWS's platforms to provide culturally accurate translations. This partnership focuses on secure, enterprise-grade deployment and advanced multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Cohere's Commitment to Open Science and Collaborative AI Research
Cohere Blog6 days agoCommentaryCohere's Open Science initiative, primarily driven by its non-profit research lab Cohere For AI (C4AI), focuses on democratizing AI research. By releasing open-weights models like Aya and fostering global research collaborations, Cohere aims to bridge the gap in multilingual AI representation. This approach highlights their commitment to community-driven, accessible AI development.
Cohere Official Research Blog and Technical Publications
Cohere Blog6 days agoCommentaryThe Cohere Research blog serves as the central hub for the company's academic papers and technical breakthroughs. It covers key areas including advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), multilingual embeddings, and robust tool-use capabilities for enterprise agents. This is a key resource for understanding the foundational technology behind Cohere's models.
Voxtral★ 78
Mistral AI News6 days agoReleaseMistral AI introduces Voxtral, a speech understanding model family with 24B and 3B variants under Apache 2.0. The models support long-context transcription, audio Q&A, summarization, multilingual detection, and function calling from voice. Mistral says Voxtral is competitive across transcription and audio understanding benchmarks, with API access starting at $0.001 per minute and local downloads available on Hugging Face.
Voxtral TTS: Open-Weights, Low-Latency Text-to-Speech from Mistral AI★ 78
Mistral AI News6 days agoReleaseMistral AI introduced Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech model, focused on realistic multilingual voice generation. The 4B-parameter model supports nine languages, quick voice adaptation from short references, and low-latency streaming for voice agents. Mistral says human evaluations show stronger naturalness than ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, with API access, Studio testing, Le Chat access, and open weights on Hugging Face.
Voxtral TTS★ 76
Mistral AI News6 days agoReleaseMistral AI introduced Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech model, targeting natural multilingual voice generation across nine languages. The 4B-parameter model supports voice adaptation from short references, emotional expressiveness, dialect handling, and low-latency streaming. It is available through API, Mistral Studio, and Le Chat, with open weights on Hugging Face under a non-commercial CC BY NC 4.0 license.
Harvey and ElevenLabs Partner to Give Lawyers a Global Voice
ElevenLabs Blog6 days agoBusinessHarvey and ElevenLabs announced a partnership to bring ElevenLabs Text to Speech and Speech to Text into Harvey’s legal AI platform. The first phase will let Harvey deliver spoken answers in almost any language or dialect. Future plans mentioned include multilingual voice translation, voice mode, spoken trial simulations, tone customization, and related voice features.
Introducing Scribe v2 Realtime★ 72
ElevenLabs Blog6 days agoReleaseElevenLabs introduced Scribe v2 Realtime, a low-latency speech-to-text model built for live transcription, voice agents, meeting assistants, and real-time captions. The company says it transcribes in under 150 ms across several major languages and supports 90 languages. Key features include automatic language detection, VAD, manual commit, text conditioning, multiple audio formats, API access, ElevenLabs Agents integration, and enterprise compliance options.
Scaling multilingual diplomacy during the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU
ElevenLabs Blog6 days agoBusinessBased only on the title, this ElevenLabs Blog post likely discusses multilingual diplomacy during Poland’s presidency of the Council of the EU. It may involve voice, translation, or audio workflows, but the original text is unavailable, so specific claims cannot be verified. The main signal is that AI voice tools are being positioned for public-sector and international communication use cases.
Introducing Dubbing v2
ElevenLabs Blog6 days agoReleaseElevenLabs introduced Dubbing v2, a new AI dubbing model that preserves tone, pacing, delivery, and emotional intent from the original speaker. It supports more than 90 languages and uses sync-aware translation to make dubbed speech feel more natural. The product is available in ElevenCreative and ElevenProductions, while API access is coming soon.
Community Discussion: Local Installation and Multilingual Training for Kokoro TTS
r/LocalLLaMA top day6 days agoCommentaryA LocalLLaMA subreddit post discusses challenges with Kokoro TTS's multilingual performance on cloud APIs. The author is seeking community advice on how to install Kokoro locally and train/fine-tune it for Brazilian Portuguese to achieve more natural-sounding speech.
IBM 發布 Granite Embedding Multilingual R2：具備 32K 上下文與 Apache 2.0 授權，100M 參數以下最強多語言嵌入模型★ 75
Hugging Face Blog30 days agoReleaseIBM has officially released a new multilingual embedding model on the Hugging Face platform called "Granite Embedding Multilingual R2." The model's most…
開源 AI 資源週報 (#20)：全新組織與模型類型登場！涵蓋 Nemotron Super、Sarvam、Cohere Transcribe 等最新進展
Interconnects (Nathan L.)76 days agoReleaseProminent AI scholar and commentator Nathan Lambert, in his latest edition of Latest Open Artifacts (#20), has compiled the major recent developments in the…
Hugging Face 推出 Open ASR Leaderboard 新賽道：聚焦多語言與長音訊語音辨識趨勢★ 75
Hugging Face Blog205 days agoReleaseHugging Face recently made a major upgrade to its flagship "Open ASR Leaderboard," officially launching two brand-new evaluation tracks: "Multilingual" and…
mmBERT：ModernBERT 邁向多語言時代，開源高效能多語言編碼器模型登場★ 78
Hugging Face Blog278 days agoReleaseIn today's era dominated by generative AI and large language models (LLMs), bidirectional encoder models (such as BERT and RoBERTa) still play an indispensable…
NVIDIA 於 Hugging Face 開源發布 600 萬筆多語言推理數據集★ 78
Hugging Face Blog297 days agoReleaseNVIDIA has officially released a massive "Multi-Lingual Reasoning Dataset" containing 6 million samples on the Hugging Face platform. This significant…
Hugging Face 發表 SmolLM3：輕量、多語言、長上下文的端側推理模型★ 80
Hugging Face Blog341 days agoReleaseHugging Face has announced the release of a brand-new generation of lightweight open-source models — SmolLM3. As the latest member of the SmolLM family…
Visual Salamandra 7B 發布：巴塞隆納超級電腦中心推出開源多模態大模型，主打多語言與視覺理解★ 70
Hugging Face Blog429 days agoReleaseThe Language Technologies department (BSC-LT) of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) recently released a new open-source multimodal model on Hugging Face…
Hugging Face 推出阿拉伯語 LLM 評估新標準：引入阿拉伯語指令遵循（IFEval）與更新 AraGen
Hugging Face Blog432 days agoReleaseHugging Face recently announced a major upgrade to its Arabic Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboard, aiming to provide a more credible and comprehensive…
Google 推出全新 Gemma 3：支援多模態、多語言與長文本的開源大語言模型★ 90
Hugging Face Blog459 days agoReleaseGoogle has officially launched Gemma 3, the next generation of its open-source large language model series — a major technical leap forward from Gemma 2. Gemma…
深入解析 Aya Vision：推動多語言多模態 AI 的前沿發展★ 75
Hugging Face Blog467 days agoReleaseCohere For AI (C4AI) has officially launched "Aya Vision," a series of open-source multimodal models (available in 8B and 32B parameter versions) designed…
Hugging Face 與印度科學理工學院（IISc）達成合作，加速印度多元語言的 AI 模型開發
Hugging Face Blog472 days agoBusinessHugging Face has announced a formal partnership with India's premier academic institution — the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) — with the core goal of…
Google 推出 SigLIP 2：更強大的多語言視覺語言編碼器★ 80
Hugging Face Blog478 days agoReleaseGoogle has officially launched SigLIP 2, a major upgrade to its widely popular SigLIP (Sigmoid Loss for Language-Image Pre-training) vision-language encoder…
視覺文件檢索邁向多語言：Hugging Face 推出 VDR-2B-multilingual 模型★ 80
Hugging Face Blog520 days agoReleaseHugging Face has recently released a new Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) model — **VDR-2B-multilingual**. This technology marks a formal transition in document…