10X AI (Issue #16): SeamlessM4T, IDEFICS, AI Journaling Apps, and a "Unique" Yoga Pose
PLUS: Meta's Code Llama, Figma's Jambot, Lex expansion, and getting ChatGPT to respond concisely.
Happy Sunday, friends!
Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at beginner-focused AI news, tools, and tips.
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🗞️ AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
(One piece of minor news is that ChatGPT’s “custom instructions” are finally available in Europe, so you won’t have to hear me bitch about it anymore.)
1. Meta’s SeamlessM4T model breaks language barriers
Meta AI has launched a new model called SeamlessM4T (Massive Multilingual Multimodal Machine Translation).
It can take text and speech input in 100 languages then output translations into text (100 languages) or speech (35 languages).
Meta claims that SeamlessM4T has greater language coverage and accuracy than competing models. But why listen to me, here’s the proverbial horse and its mouth: