Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a $120M Series C led by Iconiq at a $1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025
Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks
Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen's latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content.
Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks
Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen's latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content.
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops
Qwen2.5-Omni — Qwen2.5-Omni is an end-to-end multimodal model designed … Asif Razzaq / MarkTechPost : Multimodal AI on Developer GPUs: Alibaba Releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B with 50% Lower VRAM Usage and ...
Omni, which offers data analysis tools, raised a $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth at a $650M valuation, bringing its total raised to $97M
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OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users compared the sound to Scarlett Johansson, saying Sky is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation”
and she's not happy they might have anyway Liv McMahon / BBC : ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity OpenAI : How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : ChatGPT disable...
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o — We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real...
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October
Including the First Ever Amazon-Built TVs Tweets: Chris Welch / @chriswelch : Amazon is definitely including some of its own tech. But behind the scenes, I'm fairly sure TCL is supplying a lot of the ...
Apple hires economists to help prove its App Store commissions aren't anti-competitive
expensively! — buying PalmOS apps for my Treo from websites like Palm InfoCenter (and I believe CrackBerry had their own web-based app store?) prior the iOS App Store. It was just $30+ an app and the ...
Omni, which raised $35M, shutters after failing to work out the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage; Coinbase hires 10 Omni engineers
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