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MiniMax Speech 2.5 Promises Real-Time AI Voices with Faster Speeds on GPT Proto Platform

The race to perfect synthetic speech just turned up the volume. MiniMax has officially launched Speech 2. 5 on the GPT Proto AI platform, touting a faster, more natural, and...

AI 2 People 4 months ago
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The Psychology Behind Roleplay AI Chat: Escapism, Companionship, and Creativity

Some folks read books to escape, others binge Netflix, and a growing crowd now finds comfort in roleplay AI chat. It’s easy to dismiss these platforms as “just tech toys,”...

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Tested an Explainer Video Generator with AI

Everyone wants that clean, punchy explainer video—snappy hook, crisp visuals, captions you can read on a train with the volume off. And yes, you can make one without touching a...

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Tried Swipey AI NSFW Chat for 1 Month: My Experience

Straight from the source, Swipey positions itself as an adults-only companion platform with a dedicated NSFW chat lane and a gallery of characters you can jump into conversations with right...

AI 2 People 4 months ago
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I Tested Phrasly AI Humanizer for 1 Month

Phrasly’s AI Humanizer is a tool meant to take text generated by AI (e. ChatGPT, other automatic writers) and rework it so it sounds more like a person wrote it...

TechCrunch AI 4 months ago
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Meta unveils new smart glasses with a display and wristband controller

Meta showed off its newest AI-powered smart glasses, which have a display and are controlled by a wristband, at Meta Connect 2025.

TechCrunch AI 4 months ago
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Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq raises even more than expected, hits $6.9B valuation

The fresh raise comes in above the rumored numbers when word leaked in July that it was raising.

TechCrunch AI 4 months ago
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Irregular raises $80 million to secure frontier AI models

Irregular, the AI security startup, now has a valuation of $450 million, a source close to the deal told TechCrunch.

TechCrunch AI 4 months ago
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Kleiner Perkins-backed voice AI startup Keplar aims to replace traditional market research

The two-year-old startup raised a $3. 2 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins.

TechCrunch AI 4 months ago
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Meet Macroscope: an AI tool for understanding your code base, fixing bugs

On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and...