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A model with 82 million parameters does the voice

It is roughly one four-thousandth the size of a frontier language model, and it sounds better than systems a hundred times larger. Speech turned out to be an easier problem than anyone assumed.

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The Noise That Turned Out to Be the Universe

Two physicists spent a year trying to remove a persistent hiss. They cleaned out pigeon droppings. It didn't help — because the noise was the Big Bang.

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The Dinosaur Found With Its Last Meal Still Inside

A machine operator in Alberta hit something unusual. It turned out to be a 110-million-year-old armoured dinosaur — preserved in three dimensions, with its stomach contents intact.

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