According to media reports, Tan Xu, former Chief Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia, joined the startup Dark Side of the Moon in August, primarily responsible for developing end-to-end speech models. One important goal after Tan's joining is to create a speech experience similar to GPT-4o for the company. Dark Side of the Moon has not yet responded, but insiders have confirmed Tan's employment, and specific position details have not been finalized. Public information indicates that Tan Xu's research areas include deep learning, language/speech/music processing, and AI content generation, with publications in AI academic conferences.

Google Gemini recently announced on its official Twitter account that the highly anticipated Imagen 3 image generation feature is now available to all Gemini users worldwide. This major update marks an important step for Google in the field of AI image generation, providing users with more powerful and flexible creation tools. Imagen 3, as the latest version in the Imagen series, brings several significant improvements compared to its predecessor, Imagen 2. According to Google's official introduction, these improvements mainly focus on...

A start-up company with only 10 people, Nous Research, has challenged tech giant Meta with its AI model called Hermes3. Fine-tuned from the Llama3.1 model, Hermes3 boasts powerful performance, optimizing VRAM and disk requirements, capable of running on a single node. The model excels in dialogue capabilities, text understanding quality, and integrated agent capabilities, showcasing advanced abilities that transcend traditional language modeling. Nous Research focuses on open source.