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Funding

Visko Raises $10M, Debuts Orbis "Live Model" for Real-Time Interactive Video

Visko Platform Inc. announced a $10 million pre-seed funding round led by Llama Ventures and the public debut of Orbis, its first foundation model for generating long-form, real-time interactive videos. Orbis streams 4K video at 24 fps using a 'live model' paradigm based on Neural SDEs, maintaining coherence over time. The company claims superior performance on benchmarks, but experts caution about real-world costs and verification.

Sep 17 minNeura News
AI Models

Cohere Transcribe Arabic open-source model targets dialect challenges

Cohere has launched Cohere Transcribe Arabic, an open-source 2-billion-parameter ASR model designed for Arabic speech recognition. The company claims it is the most accurate open-source Arabic speech-to-text system, outperforming Whisper Large V3 and the standard Cohere Transcribe model in benchmarks. The model handles dialect variety, code-switching, bilingual conversations, and specialized vocabulary.

Jul 72 minNeura News