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Introducing Voice Acting Arena

Today, LAION and TTS Arena are launching Voice Acting Arena - a platform for comparing AI voice acting, with human listeners evaluating the acting quality. Text-to-speech has made remarkable progress. Today's systems can sound clear, natural, fluent, and incre…

Christoph & Robert

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ROOK: Reasoning Over Organized Knowledge

The field of artificial intelligence has long used strategic reasoning tasks as benchmarks for measuring and advancing AI capabilities. Chess, with its intricat…

Jonathan Rahn, Jenia Jitsev & Qi Sun

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Safety Review for LAION 5B

There have been reports in the press about the results of a research project at Stanford University, according to which the LAION training set 5B contains poten…

LAION.ai

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Conditional Pretraining of Large Language Models

Introduction Large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and similar chatbot products from other organizations, have recently gained widespread adopt…

Rallio

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A Call to Protect Open-Source AI in Europe

An Open Letter to the European Parliament: Protecting Open-Source AI for a Safe, Secure, and Sovereign Digital Future LAION, alongside prominent research instit…

LAION.ai

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General-GPT: Breaking the Modality Constraint

Introduction With the rapid explosion of large language models and utilization of their encompassing applications, most notably ChatGPT, there is a clear promis…

Shivaen Ramshetty and Christoph Schuhmann