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Fashion retailers partner to offer personalized AI styling tool ‘Ella’ | Insights by Willow Ventures

The Launch of Ella: Vivrelle’s AI Personal Styling Tool Vivrelle, a premier luxury membership platform specializing in renting high-end goods, has unveiled its innovative AI personal styling tool, Ella. This exciting development comes as a result of a collaboration with leading fashion retailers Revolve and FWRD. Revolutionizing Fashion with AI The introduction of Ella exemplifies […]

What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition? | Insights by Willow Ventures

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one […]