Hurston-1 open-source TTS targets Southern American and African English accents

Project proposes training a 1 billion parameter model without datacenters or the millions of dollars AI companies typically spend. A protocol gives contributors a say in the model's direction.

Reddit user Chuka444 posted "Gallop," a motion-continuity and archetypal-imagery experiment built on their open-source TouchDesigner system, with visuals generated in Midjourney v8.2.

Three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length, "historically accurate" Odyssey film, Grok published seven minutes as "Episode 1 of our Odyssey series," made with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. TechCrunch calls it more impressive than Musk's recent videos but lacking artistry or human interest.

A cybersecurity graduate building an app gave Claude an extensive list of attack vectors and tests to check; the model responded by building a full attack framework to tackle the list. The user said half of them wanted to ask for it.

Musk said the $40 billion debt deal funds the chips behind SpaceX's AI ambitions, after reports it was in talks with banks and investors including Pimco. He also criticized neoclouds.

A r/StableDiffusion user generated 192 images with each of three image models — Moss, Kromoss and Krea 2 — using an identical prompt set, and posted a gallery for side-by-side comparison.