Introducing MAI-Voice-1
– most expressive, natural voice generation model I've ever used (might be a bit biased)
– super efficient, generating a minute of audio in <1 second on a single GPU
– live now in Copilot Daily + Podcasts
Try it in Copilot Labs too:
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MAI-Voice-1: Expressive Natural Voice Generation Model
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Databricks Unified Platform Simplifies AI-Ready Data Delivery
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Nutanix CEO highlights VMware gains, Pure and Snowflake momentum
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Containerized MCP Servers Toolkit Open Source Released
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AI Efficiency Surges in 2025
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Software Developer Unemployment Rising Despite Over-Hiring Claims
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Initially, it was said that rising unemployment among software developers was due to over-hiring. Empirical evidence now shows that this is not the case; in fact, areas such as software developers (juniors) and customer service are seeing rising unemployment. In other words,