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Universal Speech Model (USM): State-of-the-art speech AI for 100+ languages

Google Research AI blog

USM is a family of state-of-the-art speech models with 2B parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text, spanning 300+ languages. The key component of the Conformer is the Conformer block, which consists of attention , feed-forward , and convolutional modules. USM, which is for use in YouTube (e.g.,

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The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025

Fast Company Tech

The o1 model rose quickly to the top of the rankings in common benchmark tests, and soon Google DeepMind , Anthropic , DeepSeek and others were training their models for real-time reasoning. Even before the appearance of new reasoning models, some of AIs hottest companies produced state-of-the-art new AI systems.

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AI is coming for the laptop class

Recode by Vox

Humanoid robots capable of tasks like folding laundry have been a longtime dream, but the state-of-the-art falls wildly short of human level. The consequence of this is not that Americans starve, but that a vastly more productive, heavily automated farming sector feeds us and lets the other 98.6 By 1900, a third did. Last year, only 1.4

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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As with most other communities, the magic number when you no longer need to actively promote your group and it grows on its own hovers around the 5,000-member benchmark. Subtlety is an art on the Social Web. Don’t Use News Feeds. People see right through that and ignore it more often than not. Enable Promotions and Jobs.

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AVFormer: Injecting vision into frozen speech models for zero-shot AV-ASR

Google Research AI blog

The resulting AVFormer model achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on three different AV-ASR benchmarks (How2, VisSpeech and Ego4D ), while also crucially preserving decent performance on traditional audio-only speech recognition benchmarks (i.e., LibriSpeech ). Unconstrained audiovisual speech recognition.

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DeepMind tests the limits of large AI language systems with 280-billion-parameter model

The Verge

DeepMind, which regularly feeds its work into Google products, has probed the capabilities of this LLMs by building a language model with 280 billion parameters named Gopher. To come to these conclusions, DeepMind’s researchers evaluated a range of different-sized language models on 152 language tasks or benchmarks.

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Alibaba says its math-specific AI model outperforms rivals

TechNode

Alibaba has claimed that its open-source large model Qwen2-Math delivers state-of-the-art math competency, saying it handles mathematical problems in algebra and geometry with 84% accuracy, and has outperformed OpenAIs GPT 4o and Googles Gemini 1.5 QbitAI, in Chinese ]

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