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Ghost Pepper v2.0.1 is a macOS hold-to-talk tool that quietly chains WhisperKit and a local Qwen 3.5 model to transcribe and clean up speech without any cloud call. It's a small app, but a clear signal of where on-device AI composition is heading.
Read more →Netflix and INSAIT Sofia University released VOID, the first open-source video inpainting system that removes objects and regenerates the physical interactions they caused — not just the hole they left. It's Netflix's first public AI model release, built on a novel quadmask encoding and CogVideoX, under Apache 2.0.
Read more →Microsoft released three foundational AI models through Azure AI Foundry on April 2: MAI-Transcribe-1 for speech, MAI-Voice-1 for synthesis, and MAI-Image-2 for generation. These are Microsoft's first internally built foundational models — a quiet but significant signal that the company wants more control over its AI stack than the OpenAI partnership alone provides.
Read more →New open-weight ASR and TTS releases narrow the speech quality gap as research on self-improving agents pushes agent design forward.
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