A new open-source AI tool called AudioCraft has been made available by Meta. According to the Meta AI, this programme is made to let both experienced artists and non-professionals generate audio and music using straightforward text prompts.

MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec are the three models that make up AudioCraft. MusicGen can create music from text inputs and was trained using Meta‘s own music library. On the other hand, AudioGen is skilled at creating sound effects for the general public and can produce audio from text inputs. The EnCodec decoder has also been upgraded, enabling the creation of music with higher quality and less undesired artefacts.

Users will be able to create environmental noises and sound effects like dogs barking, automobiles honking, or footsteps on a wooden floor, thanks to Meta’s pre-trained AudioGen models. In addition, Meta is giving the code and all of the model weights for the AudioCraft tool. Applications for this new tool include audio production, sound effect creation, compression methods, and composition of music. 

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Meta wants to make it possible for researchers and professionals to train their own models using their own datasets by making these models open-source. According to Meta, generative AI has advanced significantly in the areas of graphics, video, and text but not as much in audio. By offering a more approachable and user-friendly framework for producing high-quality audio, AudioCraft fills this gap.

According to Meta’s official blog, modeling complicated signals and patterns at many scales makes producing realistic and high-fidelity music particularly difficult. Since music is made up of both local and long-range patterns, it provides a special problem for audio generation.

Extended high-quality audio production is possible using AudioCraft. The company argues that by making the building of generative models for audio simpler, users will find it easier to play with the models that are already in place.

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company that is developing implantable brain to computer interfaces, recently took to Twitter to demonstrate in a video how it is using realistic head and brain models to ensure patient specific surgeries. 

In a tweet, Neuralink said, “Our surgical team enhances their skills by training on realistic, patient-specific head and brain models, ensuring surgeries are tailored to each individual for safety and success.” In the video, a scientist can be seen holding a head model. Through a rectangular opening on the top of the model, the scientist shows the pulsating lifelike brain inside.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink recently announced that US regulators had given them permission to test their brain implants on human beings. The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of Neuralink’s first in-human clinical research marked an important first step for its chip technology.

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“We’ve been working hard to be ready for our first human (implant), and obviously we want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device in a human,” Elon Musk stated while discussing the implant. The company hasn’t announced a human trial yet. 

In 2021, Neuralink demonstrated coin-sized product prototypes being implanted in the skulls of monkeys. Several monkeys could be seen playing simple video games or navigating a cursor on a screen during the Neuralink presentation. It is important to note that the trial also killed 15 out of 23 monkeys that year.