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Halo Neuro, building speech restoration for ALS and post-stroke aphasia, open-sourced sopro-v2-turbo: 120M parameters, zero-shot voice cloning from a short reference clip, English, German, French and European Portuguese. On an Apple M3 CPU it reaches 0.24 RTF offline and 0.21 RTF streaming with ~300ms time-to-first-audio, and 0.07 RTF on an H100, with ONNX builds for local and in-browser deployment. (Hugging Face) Small enough to ship client-side with no GPU budget, which is rare in TTS.
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English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese, Modern Standard Arabic, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, male and female voices each (HF). Latency by hardware: 32ms/239ms at 64 concurrent on B200, 47ms/275ms on H100, 79ms/395ms on A100. Character...
For about a year, "run your agent locally" meant accepting a model that couldn't reliably call a tool twice in a row. That excuse is gone. Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer today: a 29.6B dense causal transformer, 52 layers, 6,656 hidden dim, with a ~1.8B ViT-...
DeepSeek released V4 Preview on April 24 with two open-weight variants: V4-Pro (1.6T total parameters, 49B activated via MoE) and V4-Flash (284B parameters, 13B activated). Both support 1M-token context windows. Both are Apache 2.0 licensed. Both are live right now on Hugging...
Snowflake Arctic protocol: SP=4 reduces per-GPU memory 3.3x, enables 12x longer sequences on 4x H100. Now integrated into HF Accelerate, Transformers, and TRL. HuggingFace Blog
Ollama cut v0.34.0-rc1 on September 5 at 23:49 UTC, and the headline item changes the shape of the local-versus-hosted decision rather than the performance of either side: Ollama-hosted open models can be selected directly inside ChatGPT Desktop, with setup driven from the Oll...
The day's highest-scoring r/LocalLLaMA post points out the deal takes the llama.cpp and ggml copyright along with the team Hugging Face hired in February 2026, including Georgi Gerganov (r/LocalLLaMA). The top reply at 957 upvotes is "If it happens, we shall fork and move on....
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