Osama Romoh retweeted
Introducing VIVA 2.5, with our most advanced models yet.
@krispHQ's Voice Isolation has been running in production for 2 years, across 1B+ mins of voice AI conversations a month, improving WER by focusing on primary speaker only.
As more teams ran voice isolation in front of their STT, we started seeing a subtle problem: on the hardest segments with most multi-speaker overlap, the model was removing too much signal which was resulting in WER degradation.
Voice Isolation 2.5 fixes that.
Across 10 STT engines from 7 vendors we saw:
– 46.4% fewer word errors
– 69.7% fewer on background speech, the hardest case there is
– No harm on clean audio. An important update from previous VI 2.1 model
– A 3.5x smaller version, comparable results
Full details: krisp.ai/developers/viva/
Osama Romoh retweeted
Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro.
>It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio
>2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs
>most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc
We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production.
If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free.
Book a demo: s.fish.audio/tmapke
To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.
Grok 4.5 context window will upgrade to 1M probably by next week
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 scores 54 to place fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index following only Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8. It scores on par with GPT-5.5 in Codex on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index in the Grok Build harness, at much lower cost
Grok 4.5 improves 16 points over Grok 4.3 on the Intelligence Index, bringing SpaceXAI to the intelligence frontier behind only OpenAI and Anthropic, and outperforming all open weights models and notably Google’s Gemini models. Key standout areas of performance are agentic knowledge work and coding.
Grok 4.5 in Grok Build scores 76 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, on par with GPT-5.5 (xhigh) in Codex and just below Fable 5 (max) in Claude Code, and at a small fraction of the token usage and price.
Congratulations to @spacexai, @cursor_ai, and @elonmusk on the impressive release!
Key Takeaways:
➤ Grok 4.5 performs very strongly on agentic tasks. Grok 4.5 ranks #4 on GDPval-AA v2 with an Elo of 1543, between Claude Opus 4.8 (1600) and GLM-5.2 (1513). It achieves the top score on 𝜏³-Banking of 33%, above 31% from GPT-5.5 (xhigh), and sits on the cost vs performance Pareto frontier across all three agentic evaluations in the Intelligence Index
➤ Grok 4.5 is one of the most cost efficient models to run for near-frontier intelligence. It costs $0.31 per task on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and $2.59 per task on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index within Grok Build
➤ Low cost for Grok 4.5 is driven by both low pricing and token efficiency. Grok 4.5 has a headline price over 60% lower than Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and used ~14k output tokens per Intelligence Index Task - over 60% lower than Opus 4.8. On the Coding Agent Index, Grok 4.5 stands out on the Pareto frontier of Coding Agent Index score vs. Total Tokens, using only 1.9M tokens for the Coding Agent Index while scoring 76
➤ As a coding agent, Grok 4.5 in Grok Build is on par with GPT-5.5 and offers efficiency benefits: In our Artificial Intelligence Coding Agent Index that consists of DeepSWE, Terminal-Bench v2, and SWE-Atlas QnA, Grok 4.5 in Grok Build ranks third, on par with GPT-5.5 (Codex) and below Fable 5 (Claude Code). It is also very efficient in achieving this result: Grok 4.5 in Grok Build cost $2.49 per task while Fable 5 in Claude Code cost $11.80 and GPT-5.5 in Codex $5.07. This is driven by relatively low token pricing and the model using far fewer tokens than comparable models (1.9M average tokens used per task), significantly less than Fable 5 in Claude Code (7.2M) and GPT-5.5 in Codex (6.2M)
Other model details:
➤ Context window of 500k tokens - a reduction from Grok 4.3’s 1M token context, but retaining configurable reasoning and vision input
➤ Pricing of $2/$6 per 1M tokens of input/output; cache hits are discounted by 75% to $0.5 per 1M tokens, and costs still double with long (>200k token) inputs
➤ As Elon Musk has disclosed, Grok 4.5 is 3x larger than its predecessor at 1.5T parameters
Osama Romoh retweeted
OpenAI and Microsoft broke up. The impact of this is massive and I don't think enough people understand why. Put a lot of time into tracking the history of the deal to help you all understand 🫡
Osama Romoh retweeted
Your AI agents can now learn new skills from the web.
And update them automatically.
/learn stripe-payments
Searches the docs. Scrapes the pages. No more outdated skills.
Powered by Hyperbrowser, Setup Guide ↓
Osama Romoh retweeted
Fantastic update from Google! Personal intelligence in @GeminiApp can now securely connect to other Google products to personalize AI responses.
Today, we’re introducing Personal Intelligence.
With your permission, Gemini can now securely connect information from Google apps like @Gmail, @GooglePhotos, Search and @YouTube history with a single tap to make Gemini uniquely helpful & personalized to *you* ✨
This feature is launching in beta today in the @GeminiApp.
See Personal Intelligence in action 🧵 ↓
Osama Romoh retweeted
Introducing a more personal Gemini, designed for you.
Personal Intelligence draws insights from across your @Google apps to provide truly customized responses from Gemini. Learn all about it below. 🧵
Osama Romoh retweeted
What is driving the current #Bitcoin run? Is it purely political or are there fundamentals at play?
I had a fascinating conversation with @TalalTabbaa the co-founder of @CoinMENA on everything Bitcoin, Altcoins, and ETFs.
Check out #conversationswithloulou episode 85 live now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more!
#BitcoinEducation #BitcoinETFs #BitcoinCash #Altcoins #Dogecoin
Osama Romoh retweeted
Just updated my XML sitemap analysis app
🔵 Add URL structure treemap
🔵 Use updated ecdf function
🔵 Editable chart titles
Collecting the data and producing these charts requires running 3 lines of code, literally.
#advertools #adviz #SEO #DataScience #DataVisualization
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Osama Romoh retweeted
Ronaldo Mouchawar is an e-commerce pioneer in the Middle East. He’s built Souq.com over 12 years before their exit to Amazon in 2017 for $580m.
In episode 76 of Conversations with Loulou #podcast, Ronaldo shares personal anecdotes about his journey, e-commerce insights and what is next for him. The episode is live on YouTube and all podcast apps!
#entrepreneurs #StartupSuccess #founder #amazon
Osama Romoh retweeted
Do you like to try new open LLMs (like Qwen 2 😉)?
In Haystack, open models are first-class citizens.
🤗 @huggingface is the home of open models and we are very keen to support their different libraries and solutions.
For example, HuggingFaceLocalGenerator, based on Transformers, is perfect if you have a GPU or use Colab to load and experiment with models locally.
Starting from Haystack 2.1.0, we have also improved our existing integration with the ecosystem of Hugging Face APIs, with our HuggingFaceAPIGenerator 👇
🆓 Serverless Inference API: lightweight option to experiment with popular models without local loading. Can also be used on Colab.
💰 Inference Endpoints: easily deploy models for production use cases, pay per hour, support for different cloud providers.
🏠 self-hosted Text Generation Inference: deploy open models on your own machine or infrastructure. TGI, a toolkit for efficiently serving LLMs, recently switched to an Apache 2.0 license!
📚 Docs: docs.haystack.deepset.ai/doc…
Osama Romoh retweeted
People who are posting their photos created by lensa claiming this is how AI is seeing are the same people who used to play Ilike, or I describe on Facebook back in 2008
Osama Romoh retweeted
Don’t drag broken legs in your startup, whatever the reasons are. #startups
Osama Romoh retweeted
#NKLA investors: if you want to change the world ! Invest in a solar system for your home ! If you want to make a future investment buy the SP500 at a good price! If you want to gamble go to Vegas in all cases #stayawayfromNKLA
Osama Romoh retweeted
As an #entrepreneur, remind yourself that a business is just that, a business, says @romoh. Take care of it, but do not obsess over it--knowing that you are giving it the best you could is enough: entrepreneur.com/article/332… #entrepreneurs #selfcare #startups
Osama Romoh retweeted
"Remind yourself that a business is just that, a business. Either it profits or it does not. Take care of it, but do not obsess over it. Knowing that you are giving it the best you could is enough." - @romoh: entrepreneur.com/article/332… #entrepreneurs #startups #worklifebalance
Osama Romoh retweeted
Reflecting on his own journey with his startup, @romoh warns entrepreneurs against getting emotionally invested in their enterprises--doing so can take a toll on both you and your business: entrepreneur.com/article/332… #startups #entrepreneurs #wellness
Osama Romoh retweeted
.@romoh reflects on his entrepreneurial journey- what went wrong, and the conscious effort on what one can do to make less mistakes entm.ag/vh01
Osama Romoh retweeted
This particular part in @romoh's piece is painful to read (and claps to him for baring it all so bravely), but, at the same time, it should serve as a useful personality check for all you #entrepreneurs out there: entrepreneur.com/article/332… via @EntMagazineME
Osama Romoh retweeted
"Remember, it’s you who is running the business, and not the business running over your life." @romoh reflects on his entrepreneurial journey on @EntMagazineME today: entrepreneur.com/article/332… #entrepreneurs #startups #MiddleEast





















