AI Voice Cloning Explosion: xAI, ElevenLabs, Google & OpenRouter Dominate May 2 News
Voice has become the new battlefield for artificial intelligence, and today saw major developments across the board.
- xAI + Grok launched APIs that allow voice cloning in just 2 minutes.
- ElevenLabs introduced a skill to change voices while preserving emotional tone.
- VoxCPM2, an open-source model, can now clone even breathing patterns.
Meanwhile, Google released DESIGN.md, a free open-source standard to help AIs understand design systems as if they built them.
Cuey, an extension inspired by Karpathy, lets 30+ models debate among themselves, boosting accuracy from 70% to 95% — a taste of artificial democracy.
Finally, Owl Alpha on OpenRouter offers 1 million context tokens for free, available now.
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