ElevenLabs has introduced a new model, Turbo 2.5, that unlocks high-quality low-latency conversational AI for nearly 80% of the world - Hindi, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and 27 other languages. For the first time, it supports Vietnamese, Hungarian, and Norwegian text-to-speech. English is now 25% faster compared to Turbo v2.

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language model with enhanced visual understanding, video comprehension, and multilingual text-image processing. Qwen2-VL shows superior performance against models like Meta's Llama 3.1 and OpenAI's GPT-4o and supports various applications, including real-time video analysis and tech support. The models, available in three sizes (7B, 2B, and soon 72B), are open-source under Apache 2.0 for the smaller variants.