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Canva has launched its first in-house AI image-generation model, Canva Craft, which employs a two-stage architecture—planning followed by generation—to enhance design accuracy, consistency, and controllability. It supports 2K resolution and over 30 aspect ratios, catering to use cases such as social media, marketing content, and digital art.
AWS has released a technical solution that leverages the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model hosted on SageMaker, using bidirectional WebSocket to enable AI agents to generate text and synthesize speech simultaneously, significantly reducing end-to-end speech response latency. The solution offers two audio back‑transmission methods—Base64‑SSE and unified binary transmission—and is explicitly labeled as “proof-of-value,” meaning it has not yet reached production‑ready status.
The AWS blog introduces an empirical, automated scaling method for deploying text-to-speech (TTS) models on SageMaker real-time endpoints, eliminating guesswork and basing the approach on two measured metrics—Q_max (the maximum sustainable concurrent requests per instance) and T_total (the time required for planned scaling)—to create a reproducible, verifiable scaling strategy.
IBM has released three open-source speech models in the Granite Speech 5.0 series—granite-speech-5.0-2b (high-precision multilingual ASR/MT), granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc (ultra-fast edge-side multilingual transcription), and the updated granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus (enhanced multi-speaker conversational modeling)—all licensed under Apache 2.0 and compatible with mainstream inference frameworks.
