collectively pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into papering over the illusion that "AI" isn't actually the stuff of scifi novels, just to scare people into buying it to not be left behind.
this is pathetic lol.
Intel’s AI PC Acceleration Program will enable artificial intelligence (AI) on more than 100 million PCs through 2025, propelled by the upcoming launch of Intel® Core™ Ultra processors on Dec. 14.
We at Audacity are thrilled to be partnering with Intel to help bring powerful, open and, most importantly, free AI tools to a mass audience of AI PC users. With time, we expect these kinds of initiatives to produce a new kind of creative environment for musicians, podcasters and audiophiles – a worthy successor to the traditional audio tools that have typified the last 20 years. We hope that this will be the first of many successful AI initiatives with Audacity. We have long hoped that Audacity can become a general hub for researchers to showcase their work, while also providing curious users with a rich and varied suite of amazing new AI tools to try out.” –Martin Keary, head of product at Audacity
some priv equity bros helped musescore snap up audacity (the company that owns the trademark and apparently has a Head of Product), hal leonard, ultimate guitar...
this explains why the ultimate guitar app now has an inescapable onboarding survey
epic games sold bandcamp to songtradr and fired half of bandcamp as part of the deal
oh and soundcloud is trying to sell for a billion
