WAXAL: A large-scale open resource for African language speech technology
Google Research released WAXAL, a large open speech dataset initially covering 27 sub-Saharan African languages spoken by more than 100 million people, under CC-BY-4.0.
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Google Research released WAXAL, a large open speech dataset initially covering 27 sub-Saharan African languages spoken by more than 100 million people, under CC-BY-4.0.
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Mistral AI released Codestral 25.08 and a complete enterprise coding stack comprising Codestral, Codestral Embed, Devstral and the Mistral Code IDE plugin.
Mistral added features to Le Chat including preview Deep Research, Voxtral-powered voice mode, multilingual reasoning with Magistral, Projects for organising conversations and image editing with Black Forest Labs.
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