I’ll address this, since I think it’s an important point that could appear trivial on the surface, and thus subject to reflexive rejection, even as it’s central for how we understand what we’re dealing with, and the agency we have in how we deal with it. Yes, AI is a marketing
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Understanding Your Role and AI Tool Adoption Across Professions
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Another thing is understanding your role and what you want out of the tool. There's no universe where a marketer for example will start going deep into coding and building production heavy agents except you're making a complete career transition.
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Physical AI Era: Dassault and NVIDIA Pioneer Virtual Twins
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Physical AI is here. 🤝
— NVIDIA (@nvidia) 4 février 2026
Grounded in physics. Driven by intelligence.
Together, @Dassault3DS and NVIDIA are pioneering a new era of virtual twins that learn, simulate, and evolve.
🔗 https://t.co/SrTMcT6ndb pic.twitter.com/AtTBHFN4MzPhysical AI is here. Grounded in physics. Driven by intelligence. Together, @Dassault3DS and NVIDIA are pioneering a new era of virtual twins that learn, simulate, and evolve. https://
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From March 2025 to Feb 2026: AI writes all code
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Voxtral Transcribe 2: Impressive Real-Time Speech-to-Text Demo
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The demo on https://t.co/ozhOG8iPeH is worth a try – ignore the "No microphone found" message, clicking "Record" and allowing your browser to use a microphone fixes that. It transcribes very accurately in almost real-time. It's really impressive. https://t.co/LOJUsT2sPW
— Simon Willison (@simonw) 4 février 2026The demo on huggingface.co/spaces/mistra… is worth a try – ignore the "No microphone found" message, clicking "Record" and allowing your browser to use a microphone fixes that. It transcribes very accurately in almost real-time. It's really impressive. Mistral AI (@MistralAI) Introducing Voxtral Transcribe 2, next-gen speech-to-text models by @MistralAI. State-of-the-art transcription, speaker diarization, sub-200ms real-time latency. Details in 🧵 — https://nitter.net/MistralAI/status/2019068826097213953#m
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Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime: Fast Streaming ASR with vLLM Support
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Congrats to @MistralAI on releasing Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime! 🎉 Day-0 support in vLLM! A 4B streaming ASR model achieving <500ms latency while matching offline model accuracy, supporting 13 languages. vLLM's new Realtime API `/v1/realtime` provides audio streaming – optimized for voice assistants, live subtitles, and meeting transcription! Thanks to the close collaboration between the vLLM community and @MistralAI for making this production-grade support possible 🤝 📑Model & Usage: huggingface.co/mistralai/Vox… Mistral AI (@MistralAI) Voxtral Realtime is built for voice agents and live applications. Its natively streaming architecture delivers latency configurable to sub-200ms. And at 480ms, it stays within 1-2% WER of our offline model. We release the model as open weights under Apache 2.0. — https://nitter.net/MistralAI/status/2019068828257333466#m
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Mistral Launches Voxtral Transcribe 2 with Affordable API Pricing
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Mini Transcribe 2 via API at $0.003/min.
Realtime via API at $0.006/min, plus open weights. Blogpost: https://
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Mistral AI Audio Team Achieves Success with More Updates Ahead
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Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2: High-Performance Affordable Batch Transcription
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Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 handles batch transcription with the best price-performance of any transcription API: 4% WER on FLEURS at $0.003/min. Includes speaker diarization, context biasing, and word-level timestamps across 13 languages.
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Voxtral Realtime: Ultra-Fast Open Source Streaming Voice Model
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Voxtral Realtime is built for voice agents and live applications. Its natively streaming architecture delivers latency configurable to sub-200ms. And at 480ms, it stays within 1-2% WER of our offline model. We release the model as open weights under Apache 2.0.