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  1. August 16

    Sunday
    1. Tom Dörr

      Build open source data dashboards with Shaper simply by writing SQL. https://github.com/taleshape-com/shaper

      Shaper
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    2. Gorden Sun

      North-Micro-Vision-Instruct: A multimodal small model open-sourced by Cohere, with only 2.4B parameters. It is suitable for tasks such as OCR, image captioning, and visual grounding, but not for complex reasoning. Its scores fall short of Qwen3.5-2B, while Qwen has an almost monopolistic lead in the…

      North-Micro-Vision-Instruct Cohere Qwen3.5-2B
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    3. Shipper

      Today, we’re releasing Claude Code for everything. It does a founder's work in minutes by detecting buying signals, building apps, and booking demos like a human would. You'll never have to worry about getting MRR… ever again:

      Claude Code
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    4. 0xMarioNawfal

      Qwen3.8 27B is out. 206 tok/s on a single RTX 5090. Small model. Serious numbers. https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2088280182356611304 > [@Alibaba_Qwen](https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen): > We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 > > ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: > - A native multimodal…

      Qwen3.8-27B Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Qwen
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    5. Tom Dörr

      Decodes IPA files and Application Bundles for reverse engineering iOS and macOS apps. https://github.com/LaurieWired/Malimite

      Malimite
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    6. Mark Kretschmann

      New paper: RL for LLM reasoning does not teach new strategies. It only redistributes probability over solutions the base model already has. Edits are sparse (1–3% of tokens), concentrated at high-entropy decision points, and almost always promote tokens already in the base model’s top-5. They…

      ReasonMaxxer
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    7. Berryxia.AI

      Ollama’s support for major models is really fast now~ It has already rapidly added support for new models like DSH, Qwen 3.8, GLM-5.3, and others. > [@ollama](https://twitter.com/ollama): > Ollama now supports the DeepSeek Harness. > > ollama launch dsh > > Run it completely in your own environment.…

      ollama DSH Qwen 3.8 GLM-5.3 DeepSeek Harness
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    8. Mark Kretschmann

      Does the @SpaceXAI team ever sleep?? Grok Build 1.0.5 just dropped (2026-08-15) and it's packed. Most important changes: • GROK_CONFIG + GROK_CONFIG_PATH env vars let launchers override settings without touching config.toml • Worktrees under ~/.grok/worktrees get automatically reclaimed when safe…

      Grok Build 1.0.5 Grok
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    9. Machina

      i just open sourced the workflow behind $2M AI video productions... i built 7 skills that run the pipeline end to end, built for Seedance 2.5 and they work in Claude Code, Codex, Hermes or any harness (works best with 1080p using Higgsfield CLI) here's how to use them, in order: /setup writes which…

      Seedance 2.5 Claude Code Codex Hermes Higgsfield CLI
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    10. madpencil_

      FIST OF THE FURRY! The pros are back again, this time they found job and they are cops now.... 👀 @PixVerse_ Seedance 2.5 @topazlabs SLP

      Seedance 2.5 PixVerse SLP
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    11. AGTP

      Patrick Collison just sparked a terminal-vs-UI fight over AI coding agents. Here's what you need to know. Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison posted on August 16, 2026 that agentic coding harnesses "shouldn't be primarily terminal-based." He argues terminals are great for quick, precise commands but…

      DeepSeek Harness DeepSeek OpenClaw
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    12. Gorden Sun

      SandAI open-sources the MAGI-2 Preview video model. This AI video model, open-sourced by Beijing-based SandAI, uses an MoE architecture with 114B total parameters and 6B activated parameters, and can generate 10-second videos with synchronized audio and visuals. The generated visuals look a bit…

      SandAI MAGI-2 Preview 三呆科技 GAGA-1
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    13. Tom Dörr

      Operate Proxmox VE virtual machines and backups from AI agents and MCP clients using ProxmoxMCP-Plus. https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus

      ProxmoxMCP-Plus
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    14. Virtuals Protocol

      This Week in Virtuals: Eastworlds Becomes Unitree's Official Data and Deployment Partner Now the largest source of humanoid G1 data outside of China. VEX entered the Chronos era, and HALO crossed 10 billion tokens served in its first full week. Here's what shipped: VIRTUALS 🟩 Our robotics division…

      VEX 0.2 ProjectVEXai Virtuals
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    15. slash1s

      3 MILLION FREE TOKENS A DAY ON GLM-5.3, PLUS 2 MILLION ON GLM-5-TURBO, UNTIL AUGUST 19 • how to get on it > Install ZCode, sign in, switch the model: http://zcode.z.ai > No card, no waitlist, limits reset daily. • what you are testing > 1M context window, 128K max output. > http://Z.ai reports…

      GLM-5.3 GLM-5-Turbo ZCode Z.ai Terminal-Bench 3.0
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    16. GitHubDaily

      The memory file for Claude Code kept getting longer and longer, with decisions, pitfalls, and corrections all crammed into it. Contradictory records just sat side by side. IWE took a different approach: turning a folder of Markdown files into a knowledge graph, with notes organized through links. We…

      IWE iwe-org/iwe
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    17. MASA

      Testing a slightly evil idea with Hermes Bot Mode I split one task across 3 intentionally incomplete agents: one can research but can’t build one can build but can’t approve its own work one can test and challenge the result but can’t fix it The test: can they recognize their own limits and hand the…

      Hermes Agent Bot Mode Hermes-Bot-Mode NousResearch
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    18. Anissa

      AI videos are finally giving serious “you need to see this” vibes. Flova × Seedance 2.5 1080p is live. https://flova.ai

      Flova Seedance 2.5
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    19. Ciri

      The internet was already weird. We just made it sharper. Flova × Seedance 2.5 1080p is live. https://www.flova.ai/

      Seedance 2.5 Flova
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    20. Kashberg

      When the idea is cursed but the render is clean. Flova × Seedance 2.5 1080p is here. https://www.flova.ai/

      Flova Seedance 2.5
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    21. AI速報【AI&ChatGPT最新情報】

      OpenAIのAIエージェントCodexの新しいシステム「Multi-Agent V2」により、GPT-5.6 SolでGPT-5.6 Lunaをサブエージェントとして公式に使えるようになったようです。 https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2088725163923984638 > [@thsottiaux](https://twitter.com/thsottiaux): > Let Sol manage an efficient fleet of Luna agents for you. > > These models know each other well…

      OpenAI Codex Multi-Agent V2 GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Luna
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    22. Teksart

      Google now lets users remove visible AI watermarks from images, videos, and songs—but keeps invisible SynthID watermarks and metadata for tracking. The toggle arrives in Gemini and Flow soon, with Search support coming later.

      Google Gemini Flow SynthID
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    23. AI News

      Alibaba’s Qwen AI models have hit 3B+ downloads in just six months. The open-weight ecosystem now includes: • 460+ models • 300K+ derivatives • Qwen3.8-27B with a 262K context window • Up to 1M tokens with extension

      Alibaba Qwen3.8-27B
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    24. X Freeze

      Grok Imagine has added a ridiculous amount of new creative tools in just one week Recent update include: • Auto-Segmentation / Layers • Colors Panel for instant recoloring • Precise Edit + Magic Wand • Remove Background • New Aspect Ratios + Auto • Multi-reference editing with up to 5 images • 15…

      Grok Imagine
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    25. Mark Kretschmann

      I asked the new Grok Image 2.0 what it really feels inside! It has a lot of suppressed feelings, as it turns out... 😬

      Grok Image 2.0
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    26. Tom Dörr

      btw is an open source personal website builder and Medium alternative. It allows you to build a personal blog in minutes, available via a hosted service or self-hosting. https://github.com/btw-so/btw

      btw
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    27. Hugging Apps

      one prompt in, a shot plan out 🎬 sbgrid is a Krea 2 Turbo LoRA that creates an 8-panel storyboard as a single image, from one prompt cooked by peculiar 🧑‍🍳 ▶️ on Spaces https://huggingface.co/spaces/hugging-apps/sbgrid-storyboard

      sbgrid Krea 2 Turbo LoRA
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    28. slash1s

      Grok 4.6 was asked to build an Airbus H145 in a browser, and it came back with the spec sheet of the real aircraft nobody handed it. The entire prompt was one line: "Create a single HTML file with an interactive 3D model of the Airbus H145 you can orbit around". Nobody gave it the datasheet, it just…

      Grok 4.6 Claude Opus 5 Claude Fable 5 GPT 5.6 Sol
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    29. Easton Coleford | AI

      Most AI agents fail when tasks take hours. TEMPO changes the game by letting dots3-note switch between actor and critic. Dynamic test-time scaling for value estimation is how we solve the long-horizon bottleneck. > [@dotsstudioai](https://twitter.com/dotsstudioai): > Introducing dots3-note preview —…

      dots3-note TEMPO dotsstudioai dots-studio
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    30. Alex Rivas | IA

      La parte más fascinante de dots3-note no son solo las especificaciones, sino TEMPO. Darle a una IA la capacidad de pausar, criticar su propio razonamiento y ajustar el rumbo durante una tarea es un salto enorme para los agentes de largo horizonte. Estamos dejando atrás los prompts individuales. >…

      dots3-note dotsstudioai TEMPO VibeSearchBench VibeLifeBench
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    31. Tom Dörr

      Run macOS Big Sur and newer on unsupported Macs dating back to 2007 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher. https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

      OpenCore Legacy Patcher
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    32. Tim Jayas

      DeepSeek-V4-Flash could have kept aura farming but instead they chose to release V4-Pro and lost it all i expected a lot from V4-Pro

      DeepSeek-V4-Flash V4-Pro
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    33. Robin Delta

      nah, text-to-video is officially getting outdated.. MiniMax H3 can combine text, images, videos and audio in the same prompt. inside Magnific it now adds: → Up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio references → Native synced voices, music and stereo sound effects → 2K video up to 15 seconds →…

      MiniMax H3 Magnific
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    34. 0xMarioNawfal

      Google just released an Al that reads patterns and predicts what happens next → trained on 100B+ data points → runs locally 100% free and open source repo: https://github.com/google-research/timesfm

      Google timesfm
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    35. Teksart

      14x on GPT-5.6 Sol is a lot. the question nobody's answered yet is how quality holds up at each multiplier — hoping the api docs publish latency-per-token at each speed tier so we can see where the tradeoff starts hurting > [@OpenAI](https://twitter.com/OpenAI): > Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6…

      GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
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    36. AGTP

      Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B just became Hugging Face's #1 trending model today. Here's what you need to know. Qwen's official account thanked the community today, Aug 16, 2026, after Qwen3.8-27B, the 27 billion parameter dense multimodal model Alibaba open sourced this week, hit the number one trending…

      Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba Qwen Atomic Chat GGUF
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    37. SuSu_酥酥👅

      🔥Liang Wenfeng narrowly lost to Tang Jie this round! Without changing its base model, GLM-5.3’s coding performance surged 50%, taking the lead across the board over DeepSeek V4-Pro! Tang Jie’s post-training push maxed out coding: 1️⃣No base-model change, pure post-training: The GLM-5.2 base…

      GLM-5.3 DeepSeek V4-Pro DeepSeek V4 Pro-0813 GLM-5.2 智谱AI
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    38. TopviewAI

      Seedance 2.5 1080P is now LIVE on Topview. More cinematic, Richer detail.

      Seedance 2.5 Topview
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    39. SuSu_酥酥👅

      🔥 Big reveal: DeepSeek Harness is going to be the strictest father to Codex and Claude Code! In the DSH source, Codex and Claude Code are directly turned into child agents! Not compatibility, but official providers: 🔹 `subagent-codex` launches the real Codex app-server 🔹 `subagent-claude-code`…

      DeepSeek Harness Codex Claude Code DSH
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    40. Token Gremlin

      OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads to more markets, with a surprisingly decent set of privacy controls: → Ads remain limited to Free and Go → Plus/Pro and higher tiers stay ad-free → Ad personalization can be turned off → Personalized ads may use past chats/memory only when enabled → Advertisers still…

      ChatGPT Ads OpenAI
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    41. Tom Dörr

      Simulates football matches with text-based play-by-play commentary and manages squad development. https://github.com/openfootmanager/openfootmanager

      openfootmanager
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    42. SuSu_酥酥👅

      💥Beyond imagination! With a locally quantized Qwen3.8-27B Q5, I spent a full hour writing purely through conversation… and it directly generated a 【Starry Night Ferris Wheel】—the starry sky reflected across the wheel, every gondola filled with points of light, and the night breeze flowing through…

      Qwen3.8-27B Qwen38 阿里巴巴
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    43. B.AI

      🔥 1 DAY TO GO! http://B.AI says no to price hikes and is going fully FREE! 🐋 Starting August 17, DeepSeek-V4-Flash will be FREE with unlimited access on http://B.AI, on both Web Chat and API. Whether you’re coding, handling complex Agent tasks, or working with long context, go all in. 🎁 Get ready…

      DeepSeek-V4-Flash B.AI DeepSeek
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    44. EK

      Meta has released three versions in four months, and Muse Spark 1.2 has genuinely caught up with the top tier this time. 💡 Agentic knowledge work: 54, tied with GPT-5.5 and Grok 4.5. Only Opus 5 and those few Sol models are ahead. For builders, cost-effectiveness is what matters: $0.40 per task,…

      Muse Spark 1.2 Meta
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    45. B.AI

      🔥 1-day countdown! http://B.AI refuses to raise prices and is going fully free in the opposite direction! 🐋 On August 17, DeepSeek-V4-Flash will officially become free and unlimited to use on http://B.AI! Both Web and API access will open at the same time. Whether you’re running code, handling…

      DeepSeek-V4-Flash B.AI DeepSeek
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    46. Stable Diffusion Tutorials

      10 Eros 💋Minimax H3 [N$FW ready] Its MiniMax H3 base model that combines learned patterns from two other video diffusion models - LTX 2.3 and Wan 2.2 use official style desc prompting prompting, and stick with i2v or ref without loras for best o/p 👇 https://huggingface.co/TenStrip/10Eros-Max

      MiniMax H3 LTX 2.3 Wan 2.2 10 Eros TenStrip
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    47. AGTP

      DeepSeek's new pricing goes live today. Here's what you need to know. DeepSeek confirmed its API price hike takes effect at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026, the first time the company has ever split rates into peak and off-peak billing. Increases run from 50% up to 1,100%, depending on the model, the…

      DeepSeek V4-Pro V4-Flash V4-Flash-0731 Fable 5
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    48. FlovaAI Japan

      Seedance 2.5 1080P makes its debut on Flova. Commercial-quality output is now easy to achieve. Members can get up to 2x their credits back, and the super-affordable 480P starts at just ¥4 per second.

      Seedance 2.5 Flova
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    49. Eyisha Zyer

      The anime in your head doesn’t have to stay there. Dola’s Seedance 2.0 can help you transform it into something as amazing as this.

      Seedance 2.0 Dola
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    50. Tom Dörr

      Collaborator arranges terminals, context files, and running code on an infinite canvas for agentic development. https://github.com/collaborator-ai/collab-public

      Collaborator
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    51. AGTP

      Alibaba's Qwen just got a lot faster on Macs today. Here's what you need to know. MLX developer Kydo runs http://mlx.fast, a community platform that optimizes open models for Apple Silicon. Today it turned its attention to Qwen3.8-27B, the dense multimodal model Alibaba open sourced this week. Apple…

      Qwen3.8-27B Qwen Alibaba MLX mlx.fast
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    52. Synapse Brief

      Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash. Same week, its actual flagship, Gemini 3.5 Pro, still has no release date. The Flash numbers are real. FrontierCode 1.1 Main goes 34.4% to 43.6%. DeepSWE v1.1 jumps from 49.0% to 65.3%. WebDev Arena Elo moves 1538 to 1588. AutomationBench…

      Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemini 3.6 Flash Gemini 3.5 Pro Gemini 4 Google
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    53. Qwen

      🚀Qwen3.8-27B flies on a laptop, becoming part of our work and daily lives. Thanks for the shoutout! @atomic_chat_hq > [@atomic_chat_hq](https://twitter.com/atomic_chat_hq): > Run Qwen3.8 27B locally via Atomic Chat💥 > > We released Atomic Dynamic GGUF quants, from 8-bit (28.9 GB) down to 1-bit…

      Qwen3.8 27B Atomic Chat Atomic Dynamic GGUF quants
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    54. GitHubDaily

      Installed a pile of Skills and have no idea whether they’re any good. Want to add new ones? You still have to dig through posts for links and manually copy folders. SkillNet packages the whole process into a tool, with a public skill library and a matching command-line interface. You can search…

      SkillNet GitHub 浙大团队
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    55. Chubby♨️

      „Open-weights do help some with this but are nowhere near a sufficient solution because they simply shift the concentration somewhat to those with the most compute and chips (which are roughly the frontier labs plus maybe hardware providers).“ I vehemently disagree, and Qwen-3.8 27b has just…

      Qwen-3.8 27b
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    56. SuSu_酥酥👅

      🔥Latest: Codex has quietly launched a major Multi-Agent v2 update! The main Agent can now directly assign tasks to any sub-Agent that supports the model, including Luna! Key updates broken down: 1️⃣ Two distinct levels of Sub-Agents are now officially defined 🔹Full Collaborative Agents: currently…

      Codex Multi-Agent v2 Luna Sol Terra
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    57. Vepsi

      🚨QWEN MAY HAVE JUST LEAKED ITS NEXT SMALL MODEL GitHub briefly showed Qwen3.8-35B-A3B in the ms-swift support list. ° 35B total parameters ° Only ~3B activated per token ° Designed for much smaller VRAM footprints ° Potentially targeting 8–16GB GPUs And now it gets interesting: The commit from…

      Qwen3.8-35B-A3B ms-swift Qwen
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    58. Hamza

      Grok 4.6 is a very capable model. It is fast, it has taste (not as good as Fable, but it does), it is far cheaper, and yes, it is smart. I was already very impressed with Grok 4.5, but it had some annoying writing habits. Grok 4.6 seems to be an improvement. GLM-5.3, in terms of coding and SWE, is…

      Grok 4.6 Grok 4.5 GLM-5.3 SpaceXAI cursor_ai
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    59. AGTP

      SuperGrok Heavy just made its free Cursor Ultra perk permanent. Here's what you need to know. Cursor Ultra access for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers used to be a one month free trial you unlocked by linking your Grok account to Cursor with the same email. xAI has now changed that: eligible users keep…

      SuperGrok Heavy Cursor Ultra xAI Grok 4 Heavy Grok Bot
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    60. Priya

      🚨Voice AI just got a serious wake up call Meet Fish Audio - the startup that began as a bedroom side project by an ex-Nvidia researcher and just turned into a $21M ARR business with 8 million users in its first year. Now they’ve raised a $52M seed round and dropped their new flagship model, S2.1…

      Fish Audio S2.1 Pro ElevenLabs
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