Tag: llama
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Meta Hasn’t Given Up on Open Source: Muse Spark Launches as Open-Weight Plans Continue
On April 8, 2026, Meta launched Muse Spark — its first proprietary frontier AI model built by the new Superintelligence Labs under former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. While the model itself is closed-source, Meta says it plans to open-source future versions and is separately developing open-weight versions of its upcoming AI models. The message […]
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Taalas HC1: Hardwiring Llama 3.1 Into Silicon for 17,000 Tokens/Second
Key points On February 21, 2026, Toronto-based startup Taalas unveiled the HC1, a custom ASIC that hard-codes Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B language model directly into silicon. Taalas says the HC1 delivers up to 17,000 tokens per second per user, roughly ten times faster than today’s best GPU-based solutions, at a fraction of the cost and […]
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Introducing Chatterbox: Resemble AI’s State-of-the-Art Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
Resemble AI’s Chatterbox is the first production-grade, open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model designed to deliver human-quality speech synthesis without the constraints of closed systems (github.com). Built on a 0.5 billion-parameter Llama backbone and trained on over 500,000 hours of cleaned audio data, Chatterbox consistently outperforms leading proprietary solutions like ElevenLabs in head-to-head evaluations (github.com). Key points […]