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Morning Edition · Friday, September 11, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
Tencent Releases a 1.5-Billion-Parameter Speech Model Under an MIT License
AuK handles text-to-speech, content and acoustic editing, denoising and source separation through one natural-language instruction interface, with weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Tencent's Hunyuan group, working with a Shanghai university team, released AuK, a 1.5-billion-parameter foundation model for speech generation and editing, with code and weights under an MIT license. A Russian-language AI channel flagged th…
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