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These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet

April 24, 2026 | TechCrunch AI
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Every week there is a new model or a tool release that claims to sound human and converse like one. However, in reality, that might not be the case. Enterprise voice AI platform PolyAI’s CTO Shawn Wen thinks that despite the release of full-duplex models — which can speak while listening to you — voice AI hasn’t had its “ChatGPT moment” yet. “We have reached the milestone of developing full-duplex models. The next challenge is to make reasoning very fast,

Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent

March 14, 2022 | TechCrunch AI
Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent
“Describe an idea in chat, and Muse builds a space for you, whether that’s a tracker, a planner or a project board,” Meta says. Image Credits:Meta Spaces can also be easily integrated with third-party apps and information, Meta says. “Connect the apps you use, and your spaces keep themselves up to date in the background, so new concert dates, price changes, or savings progress show up without you having to ask,” the company says. On Friday, Mark Zuckerberg

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

October 28, 2020 | TechCrunch AI
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
Meta particularly emphasized Ember’s cost-per-task, using Artificial Analysis’s composite benchmark score to show Ember as cheaper and smarter than competitors like Anthropic’s Haiku and OpenAI’s Luna. Image Credits:Meta Superintelligence Labs At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna. Not only that, it’s cost-competitive with open source competitors like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5

Alibaba Releases 2026 AI for Good Report: Data Center Computing Power Density Nearly Quintuples in Two Years, Green Electricity Share Reaches 73.6%

October 23, 2017 | 智东西
Alibaba Releases 2026 AI for Good Report: Data Center Computing Power Density Nearly Quintuples in Two Years, Green Electricity Share Reaches 73.6%
Zhidongxi (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Yang Jingli Editor | Li Shuiqing Zhidongxi reported on November 5 that Alibaba released the “Alibaba AI for Good Action Report 2026” today. The report centers on “Full-stack AI, collaborating for good” and proposes that AI development must simultaneously meet three conditions: “socially acceptable, environmentally sustainable, and economically sustainable”. The report’s AI-for-Good initiatives cover he