PolyNorm: Few-Shot LLM-Based Text Normalization for Text-to-Speech

Text Normalization (TN) is a key preprocessing step in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, converting written forms into their canonical spoken equivalents. Traditional TN systems can exhibit high accuracy, but involve substantial engineering effort, are difficult to scale, and pose challenges to language coverage, particularly in low-resource settings. We propose PolyNorm, a prompt-based approach to TN using …

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Transform your MCP architecture: Unite MCP servers through AgentCore Gateway

As AI agents are adopted at scale, developer teams can create dozens to hundreds of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tailored for specific agent use case and domain, organization functions or teams. Organizations also need to integrate their own existing MCP servers or open source MCP servers for their AI workflows. There is a …

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From silicon to softmax: Inside the Ironwood AI stack

As machine learning models continue to scale, a specialized, co-designed hardware and software stack is no longer optional, it’s critical. Ironwood, our latest generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), is the cutting-edge hardware behind advanced models like Gemini and Nano Banana, from massive-scale training to high-throughput, low-latency inference. This blog details the core components of Google’s …

Moonshot’s Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI, outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI’s buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has even caught up to OpenAI’s flagship, paid proprietary model GPT-5 in key third-party performance benchmarks with a new, free model. The Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI’s …

I won “Best Cinematography Award” for this AI Short film!!

I’m still working on subtitles. India’s 1st AI Film Fest — 1st Edition by localhost AI AWARDS WINNING FILM BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD CINEMATOGRAPHY • FILMMAKING • HORROR FOLKLORE Written • Directed • Produced • Edited in 1 Week Film Submitted Incomplete — Still Won the Award submitted by /u/aum3studios [link] [comments]

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How Amazon Search increased ML training twofold using AWS Batch for Amazon SageMaker Training jobs

In this post, we show you how Amazon Search optimized GPU instance utilization by leveraging AWS Batch for SageMaker Training jobs. This managed solution enabled us to orchestrate machine learning (ML) training workloads on GPU-accelerated instance families like P5, P4, and others. We will also provide a step-by-step walkthrough of the use case implementation. Machine …

Build software sustainably in the AI era

Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world – accelerating discovery, optimising systems, and unlocking new possibilities across every sector. But with its vast potential comes a shared responsibility. AI can be a powerful ally for transforming businesses and reducing cost. It can help organizations minimize carbon emissions, industries manage energy use, and scientists model complex climate …