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Monday, 20 July 2026

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages

MarkTechPost 1 month ago 50

Alibaba's Tongyi Lab released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a hosted text-to-speech model available in two tiers (Flash for real-time interaction and Plus for high quality) supporting 16 languages. The Plus variant ranks first on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard with an Elo rating near 1,236 and costs $27.59 per million characters. The model includes 86 fine-grained inline tags for controlling non-verbal details like laughter and breathing, but is available only as a hosted API rather than downloadable weights.

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The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication

Sakana AI 20 ● 2 sources

The AI Scientist-v2, an AI system that autonomously generates research papers from hypothesis to final manuscript, produced a paper that passed peer review at an ICLR 2025 workshop with a score of 6.33, marking the first fully AI-generated paper to pass standard peer-review at a top-tier ML venue. The paper titled "Compositional Regularization: Unexpected Obstacles in Enhancing Neural Network Generalization" was one of three AI-generated submissions; one passed workshop review while two were rejected. The authors withdrew the accepted paper before publication and conducted this experiment with full cooperation from ICLR leadership and an institutional review board, establishing a precedent for how the scientific community should evaluate and integrate AI-generated research.

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