🔥 India's Sarvam AI launched Bulbul-v2

🔥 Sarvam AI launched Bulbul-v2

Bulbul-v2 is our flagship text-to-speech engine crafted expressly for India, delivering voices that sound uncannily human with natural prosody and nuanced regional accents.

It supports multiple voice personalities, handles code-mixed and multi-language text with ease, and generates speech in real time, making it ideal for conversational interfaces.

Connect with India in 11 regional tongues, using voices that feel like home - warm, genuine, unmistakably desi.

• Natural, everyday conversation.
• Lightning-quick responses that keep the dialogue flowing.
• Bespoke voice profiles crafted to match your brand’s personality.

Built for Bharat from the ground up, Bulbul brings ultra-low latency, India-first pricing, and the broadest Indian-language coverage in Speech AI.

More details here.

⚡ Anysphere has pocketed a staggering $900M

Anysphere has snapped up a colossal $900 million in fresh funding, catapulting its Cursor IDE to a $9 billion price tag. The windfall highlights just how bullish investors are on generative-AI tools that wipe out the mind-numbing boilerplate work most developers dread. Leadership plans to plow the cash into an aggressive hiring burst and a full-court press on big-company accounts.

⚙️ Apple is working on new chip

Apple is cooking up a tiny, super-efficient chip (think Apple Watch tech on steroids) to run slim smart glasses they hope to ship in 2027. The specs: built-in cameras, hands-free Siri, and on-device AI tricks. At the same time, matching chips are on the way for future AirPods, Apple Watch, next-gen Macs, and beefy cloud servers—so everything from your earbuds to Apple’s data centers can speak the same AI language.

Read more here.

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🧠 AI Word of the Day: "Self‑RAG"

Think of Self-RAG - short for Self-Reflective Retrieval-Augmented Generation - as an LLM with a built-in gut check. The model drafts an answer, stops to pick holes in its own work, hunts for fresh information, and rewrites the whole thing before you ever see it.

Example:
Picture a student who writes an essay, marks it up in red pen, sprints to the library for supporting quotes, and turns in a polished revision - all before class is over. That’s Self-RAG in action.