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

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in ...

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition ...

Nvidia-backed startup Reflection, builder of open-source AI models, seeks $2.5B in latest round: report

Reflection, dubbed the “DeepSeek of the West,” targets a $2.5B funding round at a $25B valuation to build open-source LLMs ...
Pew Research Center

How Americans view data centers’ impact in key areas, from the environment to jobs

A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...
IEEE

A Study of Data Augmentation for Learning-Driven Scientific Visualization

Abstract: The success of deep learning heavily relies on the large amount of training samples. However, in scientific visualization, due to the high computational cost, only few data are available ...
IEEE

An Open-Source Platform for Integrated Visualization, Analysis of Vehicle Dynamics and Driving Style

Abstract: Analysis of modern Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) data is often inefficient, split across separate tools for mapping, signal plotting, and statistics. This fragmentation prevents ...