Long before ink touched paper, human civilizations used the spoken word as a way to store, retrieve, and spread information and knowledge. As one of the most natural ways of human communication, voice will become one of the most intuitive and powerful interfaces for interacting with advanced AI models.

We dive into the current state-of-the-art technology, use-cases, as well as the challenges and limitations today. View the full report at strangevc.com/voice-ai. We're open to any feedback, requests, and suggestions! Please send them in to research@strangevc.com.

Ideogram, a gen AI company started by former Google Brain researchers, seems to have cracked text-rendering. Runway announces Creative Partner program. Deepmind works on watermarking AI images

Some big moves this week from AI giants, as OpenAI makes a power move by launching EnterpriseGPT, a privacy-first, enterprise-grade version of GPT-4, and open source platform Hugging Face raises a massive funding round which values it at $4.5B. 

OpenAI brings fine-tuning capabilities to GPT3.5, Midjourney releases inpainting feature, AI creative tools receive fresh fundings. 

Youtube teams up with Universal Music Group to launch a Music AI Incubator, Spanish soccer league LaLiga partners with Microsoft on a suite of AI services for sports

Google’s next-level AI model rumored to launch this fall, Microsoft adds game streaming to Xbox, MIT develops invisible BrightMarkers for enhanced 3D object interaction 

Instagram reportedly working on AI chat bots, Meta files patent for methods that reduces visual glitches in VR headsets, Researchers from Bytedance introduces 3D avatar generation approach. 

Stability AI gets into code generation, OpenAI introduces a webcrawler ahead of GPT-5, Google and Universal Music Group reportedly team up to let artists get paid for AI-generated songs.