Alibaba Fuels China-US AI Battle

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• AI Inspirational Quote

• Alibaba Drops Wan 2.1

• Cheat Sheets

• Scribe: Best Speech-to-Text Ever

• Top Rated AI Tools

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• How to Visualize Projects Using Claude Artifacts

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Alibaba Drops Wan 2.1

Alibaba has announced that its AI model for generating images and videos, Wan 2.1, is now open-source and available to the public. This move is expected to intensify competition in the field of AI-generated content.

• Four versions of the Wan 2.1 model have been released, capable of generating images and videos from text and image inputs.

• The models are accessible globally through ModelScope and Hugging Face for research, academic, and commercial use.

• Alibaba’s announcement coincides with DeepSeek, a startup that recently launched open-source AI models and has gained attention for its competitive performance.

By open-sourcing its AI model, Alibaba is driving competition in the AI-generated content industry. Additionally, the company’s $52 billion investment in cloud computing and AI infrastructure over the next three years signals its strong commitment to leading this field.

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Cheat Sheets

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Scribe: Best Speech-to-Text Ever

Scribe, a new speech-to-text model by ElevenLabs, claims to be the most accurate in the world, outperforming top competitors like Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash and OpenAI’s Whisper v3 across multiple languages.

• Supports 99 languages, with over 95% accuracy in 25+ languages, including English, Italian, and Spanish.

• Enhances speech recognition for traditionally underrepresented languages like Serbian, Cantonese, and Malayalam.

• Features include multi-speaker labeling, word-level timestamps, and detection of non-verbal audio cues like laughter and music.

Scribe’s high accuracy and ability to handle real-world audio make it a game-changer for subtitles, searchable podcasts, and high-quality transcriptions. It also expands access to advanced speech recognition for languages that have been overlooked, making global communication more inclusive.

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How to Visualize Projects Using Claude Artifacts

Anthropic Claude's new “Artifacts” feature allows you to run and visualize code directly in your chat window, changing how we interact with AI-generated code.

Here's how to use it:

1. Access Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Claude AI and enable Artifacts in the Future Preview settings.

2. Start a new chat. To see its potential, write: "Demonstrate some Artifacts you can make".

3. Request code generation for your specific use case (e.g., React components, websites).

4. Interact with the generated Artifact - preview, modify, and expand on it!

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