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Hey there, AI enthusiasts. Korean startup Nari Labs just released Dia, a sophisticated text-to-speech AI developed by two college students without any funding that's already competing with established tools from major companies.

As powerful AI technology becomes increasingly accessible to individual creators and small teams, how might this democratization reshape innovation cycles and challenge the dominance of well-funded tech giants?

In Today’s AI Daily:

• College students create speech AI rivaling major tech platforms

• Next-gen robot navigates and cleans unfamiliar homes

• ChatGPT integrates Washington Post journalism for reliable answers

• Grok Voice Mode now has vision capabilities

• New trending AI tools & prompts

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

NARI LABS

🎙️ Korean undergrads launch powerful open-source speech AI

The AI Daily: Korean startup Nari Labs just released Dia, a powerful text-to-speech AI made by two college students—with no funding. It’s already competing with big-name tools like NotebookLM and ElevenLabs.

Key notes:

• Built in just three months, with one creator still serving in the military.

• Trained using Google’s TPU Research Cloud, with 1.6 billion parameters.

• Can create realistic voices that include things like coughs, laughs, and pauses.

• Works on most modern PCs with 10GB of VRAM or more.

• It’s free and available on GitHub and Hugging Face, with a full app coming soon.

Why it matters: Dia makes powerful voice AI tools available to everyone, not just big tech companies. This could help more people experiment and build new tools—but it also raises concerns, since it has very few protections against fake or harmful content. It’s a big step forward, but it comes with big responsibility too.

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THE WASHINGTON POST

📰 Washington Post teams up with ChatGPT for news search

The AI Daily: The Washington Post just announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to integrate its journalism directly into ChatGPT search results, giving users access to trusted news content when asking questions.

Key notes:

• ChatGPT will now display summaries, quotes, and links to Washington Post articles in relevant search responses.

• The goal is to make factual, reliable news easier to find—especially on fast-changing or complex topics.

  The Post joins 20+ other news publishers already working with OpenAI, covering news in over 20 languages.

• This builds on The Post’s other AI tools like Ask The Post AI and Climate Answers.

Why it matters: More news companies are choosing to work with AI tools instead of fighting them. The Post gets more readers through ChatGPT’s 500 million users, and OpenAI gets high-quality news to improve its answers. But not all media companies agree—The New York Times is still suing OpenAI instead of teaming up.

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PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE

🤖 Physical Intelligence's new robot cleans homes it's never seen before

The AI Daily: Physical Intelligence just unveiled π-0.5, a new robot model that can clean kitchens and bedrooms it’s never seen before—a big step forward in making home robots more useful.

Key notes:

• The robot thinks in steps: first deciding the big task (like “pick up the plate”), then doing the smaller actions.

• 97.6% of its training came from other robots and web data, not the test robots.

• It worked well in completely new homes that weren’t part of its training.

• It learned using data from different robots, spoken instructions, and web images and videos.

Why it matters: Most robots today only work in controlled spaces they were trained for. But π-0.5 can handle new places—just like a real helper. This is a huge step toward robots that could clean and help in any home, without needing to learn each room first.

FAST TRACKS

🗞️ What matters in AI right now?

xAI launched Grok Vision, letting iOS users point their phone cameras at things like signs, products, or papers and ask the AI questions about what it sees.

Huawei will start shipping its new 910C AI chip next month in China. It matches the power of Nvidia’s H100 by combining two older 910B chips.

Genspark released AI Slides, a smart tool that builds full presentations in minutes—from writing and research to design and layout—based on a simple prompt.

Character AI launched AvatarFX, a storytelling platform that brings uploaded images to life with realistic speech and movement, even with multiple speakers in one video.

Kortix AI introduced Suna, a free AI agent that can analyze the stock market, build funding reports, and create charts and visual insights.

ElevenLabs released Agent-to-Agent Transfer, which lets one AI agent pass a conversation to another expert agent—creating smart, multi-step workflows based on user needs.

🔥 Trending AI tools

🔗 Make: Visually automate workflows across 2,000+ apps with no-code tools.

🎨 Monica: Create images from text using DALL·E 3 and Stable Diffusion.

📈 SEOJuice: Automate internal linking and on-page SEO to boost rankings.

👤 Aragon AI: Generate photorealistic AI headshots tailored for various occasions.

🎬 HeyGen: Produce videos with AI avatars speaking your script in 40+ languages.

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