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10-person team Phonic releases speech model Phonic-1, claims it can query and book in parallel during calls

The 10-person startup Phonic has released a speech model, Phonic-1, which it says can execute queries and bookings before the caller has finished speaking. The model tops the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard with a score of 87.1, 0.2 points higher than xAI's Grok Voice 3.0, with a customer service task completion rate of 79.9% and a first-audio latency of 0.61 seconds. Phonic says it scored 90.2 on the Cekura call test set, but the public Cekura leaderboard lists Phonic v1 at 68.3%; the company has completed a $27.5 million Series A round led by First Round, bringing total funding to $31.5 million.

Microsoft MAI-Image-2.7-Preview Rises to Second on the Image Editing Leaderboard

Mustafa Suleyman announced that MAI-Image has become the world's second-ranked image editing model, saying it once again surpasses Google, Meta, xAI and GPT-Image-2.5-Flare, and that it is available to try in MAI Playground. The Artificial Analysis evaluation he cited shows that Microsoft MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks second on AA-Image-Editing v2.1, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max), scoring higher than MAI-Image-2.6 on all 7 editing actions, including gains of +57 Elo in composition and framing, +49 in text or symbol editing, and +48 in scene and style editing, and ranking first on 4 of the actions. The model currently offers image editing only in MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality said to be coming soon.

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