IBM announces Granite 3.3, featuring a new speech-to-text model (Granite Speech 3.3 8B), enhanced reasoning capabilities in Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, and RAG-focused LoRA adapters for Granite 3.2. The release also includes activated LoRAs (aLoRAs) for improved efficiency and all models are open source.
- Shows how an individual can use Python for speech recognition (SR), Push-to-- Talk (PTT) systems, and large action models to create their own AI assistant.
- Describes the process of creating a "la Rabbit prototype" with Python code on Raspberry Pi hardware.
- Emphasizes how these components can be combined for various tasks using different APIs like OpenAI or LLaMA (Large Language Model from Meta).