AI Daily — November 1, 2026

Models & Research

NVIDIA’s Nemotron Transcribe and Granary v2 Bring Customizable Speech AI — NVIDIA combines a promptable speech model with open multilingual data and fine-tuning tools. Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe supports transcription, speaker attribution, translation and audio Q&A, while Granary v2 helps developers adapt it to specialized vocabulary and accents. A medical case study reports 45.8% fewer transcription errors on held-out speakers after fine-tuning compared with the best prompt alone. HuggingFace ↗

My takeaway: One open-weights model can handle transcription, speaker attribution, translation and contextual entity handling, with transcription style selected through instructions for each request rather than retraining. Just keep in mind that this model is designed for recorded audio, not live streaming.

Industry & Funding

• OpenAI reportedly scales back the target for its new funding round
• Apple's new CEO: no AI shipped just for the sake of AI

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