Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world in recent years thanks to the stock market noticing how much demand there is for graphics processing units (GPUs), the powerful chips Nvidia makes that are used to render graphics in video games but also, increasingly, train AI large language and diffusion models. But Nvidia does far more than just make hardware, of course, and the software to run it. As the generative AI era wears on, the Santa Clara-based company has also been steadily releasing more and more of its own AI models — mostly open source and free for researchers and developers to take, download, modify and use commercially — and the latest among them is Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v2, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model that can, in the words of Hugging Face’s Vaibhav “VB” Srivastav, “transcribe 60 minutes of audio in 1 second [min ... Read full article.