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Company: "coqui"
MetaVoice & RIP Bard
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Coqui, a TTS startup that recently shut down, inspired a new TTS model supporting voice cloning and longform synthesis from a small startup called MetaVoice. Google discontinued the Bard brand in favor of Gemini. On TheBloke Discord, discussions focused on AI training with models like Mixtral, Nous Mixtral DPO, and Miqu 70B, comparing them to OpenAI's GPT models, and debated prompt engineering, lorebooks, and removing safety features via LoRA fine-tuning on models such as Llama2 70B instruct. Technical topics included transformer layer offloading limitations and adapting LLaMa 2 for Apple Silicon. On OpenAI Discord, DALL-E images now include C2PA metadata for content authenticity, sparking debates on AI censorship, metadata manipulation, and open-source AI models versus commercial giants like GPT-4. Users discussed GPT-4 usability, limitations, and practical applications.
1/3/2024: RIP Coqui
sdxl diffusers-0.25 coqui mozilla hugging-face google text-to-speech performance-optimization token-management transformer-architecture image-datasets web-crawling pytorch leaderboards
Coqui, a prominent open source text-to-speech project from the Mozilla ML group, officially shut down. Discussions in the HuggingFace Discord highlighted skepticism about the claimed
3X faster speed of sdxl, attributing improvements more to techniques like torch.compile and removal of fp16 and attention rather than diffusers 0.25 features. Users confirmed that a HuggingFace user token can be used across multiple machines, though distinct tokens are recommended for safety. The Learning Loss Minimization (LLM) Leaderboard briefly experienced issues but was later confirmed operational. A Kaggle notebook was shared demonstrating how to build Transformer architectures from scratch using PyTorch. Additionally, a new image dataset with 15k shoe, sandal, and boot images was introduced for multiclass classification tasks. Explanations about the workings of the Common Crawl web-crawling process were also shared.