Eleven Labs has launched tools to create customizable conversational AI agents, signaling the growing normalization of the AI agent era. Users can tweak settings like tone, response length, and authentication, with multi-language support available. Meanwhile, Mistral updates its product lineup, introducing new models and tools like LeChat with inline citations and workflow automation, focusing on delivering frontier AI at affordable prices.
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11 Labs becomes the latest company to Release tools to build conversational Agents welcome back to the AI Daily Brief headlines Edition all the daily AI News you need in around 5 minutes we Kick off today with a new conversational Agent launch from 11 Labs The Voice Cloning and text to speech platform now Offers the ability to build Conversational AI Bots users can Customize their own Bots tweaking Settings like tone of voice and response Length the company's head of growth Sam Scar told reporters that customers were Already trying to use the platform to Build a agents like this but had been Running into problems around things like Knowledge based integration and handling Of interruptions leading 11 labs to Decide to build a full pipeline to Support this use case now devs can plug In their choice of llm to drive the Conversation and set limits around Creativity and token use they can also Tune voice latency stability Authentication criteria and maximum Length of conversation the agents also Have multi- language support to help Engage a global customer base basically The big thing here is not any of the Specifics there's nothing super novel It's the fact that this is just becoming Increas inly normalized and it really is One more signal that the AI agent era is
Now truly upon us next up mistol have Updated their product Suite in an effort To keep up with the larger Frontier Labs Mist's chatbot let chat now has inline Citations as well as a canvas tool to Allow users to modify AI outputs mistol Writes an announcement blog post you can Use the canvas features to create Documents presentation code mockups the List goes on you're able to modify its Contents in place without regenerating Responses version your drafts and Preview your designs in addition lechat Can now ingest large PDF documents and Images as inputs the platform leverages Black Forest Labs flux pro model for Image generation lchat can also now host Sharable automated workflows for Repetitive tasks like scanning expense Reports and invoice processing and Indeed mistol is referring to these Workflows as agents all in all these new Features bring the chat basically in Line with open AI chat GPT and Anthropics Claw the new features come Along with an update to the model range Pixol large is the second model in Mistro's image capable El l m line the Model clocks in at 124 billion Parameters which is a little smaller Than anthropics CLA 3 Sonet and nowhere Near the size of meta's largest Lama 3400b model or of course the rumor Trillions of parameters for GPT 40
Mistol said in their announcement blog Post pixol large is able to understand Documents charts and natural images the Model demonstrates Frontier level image Understanding mistol also unveiled a new Version of their Texton model Mr Large They said it brings notable improvements In Long context understanding making it Well suited for use cases like document Analysis and task automation now mistol Is one of a very small handful of Companies that are credible Frontier Model developers they are along with Meta holding the banner for open- Source Approaches but they are of course in an Extremely competitive space where Resources really do make a difference The company recently raised 640 million In Venture funding which is no small Amount but is still a small fraction of The billions of dollars raised by Companies like open aai and given that This isn't enough to train a competitive Next Generation model mistel may end up Answering the question of whether AI Labs can do more with less by leveraging Novel techniques for their part mistol Is explicitly taking a different path Writing and mistol our approach to AI is Different we're not chasing AGI at all Cost our mission is instead to place Frontier AI in your hands so you get to Decide what to do with Advanced AI Capabilities this approach has allowed
Us to be quite Frugal with our Capital While consistently delivering Frontier Capabilities at affordable price points So really interesting that you're Starting to see this clear Differentiation in terms of how they View their competitive set speaking of Open AI some interesting news on one of Their licensing deals publisher. dmer Meredith who is the publisher of people Better Homes and Gardens and in style Disclosed that they were being paid $16 Million per year to license content the Multi-year partnership with openai was Announced back in May and is one of many That open AI has signed in the past year Speaking of licing book publisher Harper Collins has asked its authors to opt Into a licensing deal for AI training One of the big five Publishers Harper Collins confirmed that they had struck a Deal named AI company they said in a Statement har Collins has reached an Agreement with an AI technology company To allow limited use of Select Non-fiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and Performance while we believe this deal Is attractive we respect the various Views of our authors and they have the Choice to opt into the agreement or to Pass on the opportunity a screenshot of The communication was circulated this Week by author Daniel kibblesmith it
Disclosed that the deal was 2500 per Book over a licensing period of 3 years Kibble Smith shared his feelings when he Captioned the post a domitable Interestingly kibble Smith took the Chance to Soap Box a little bit to AV Club and wrote it seems like they think They're cooked and they're chasing short Money while they can I disagree the fear Of robots replacing authors is a false Binary I see it as the beginning of two Diverging markets readers who want to Connect with other humans across time And space or readers who are satisfied With a customized on demand content Pellet bed to them by the big computer So they never have to be challenged Again now while it's clear which side he Comes down on that sort of Tale of Two Market's take is reminiscent of what We're going to get into in our main Episode which is of course now coming up As we are done here with the headlines Stay tuned for that