(रोहित) Designer, Engineer, Inventor. Now a founder. Very divergent. Tangible Interactions Faculty at domus academy (milan)
Madrid, Spain
Joined July 2009
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my vocal synth models the vocal tract as a network of branching acoustic tubes, unlike vocaloid which stitches together and pitch-shifts phoneme recordings. still working on improving naturalness by tuning it against recordings of real singers, but I'm already impressed at how cool it sounds!
Rohit Gupta retweeted
Today we release Mirage: A 22 MB visual-language model that runs scene descriptions + object detection + OCR + segmentation + spatial relations analysis + extractions + decisions, in a single pass.
It can do all that in 74 ms on Samsung Galaxy S26 NPU or 107 ms on its CPU.
Mirage has a 7.8M encoder + a 40.8M decoder at 2bits, and describes images in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish.
We trade general language capacity, to compete top small VLMs today (SmolVLM2-500M, LFM2.5-450M and Florence2-230m) on these tasks.
On 256 VQAv2 questions, feeding Mirage's structured output and full trace to text-only Qwen3-0.6B raised its score from 9.3 to 31.3 out of 100, without fine-tuning either model.
Read more and benchmark it yourself here:
cactuscompute.com/blog/mirag…
If you are in #Madrid , maybe try checking out my Madrid Food Recommendation List :
proximo.to/p/where-i-eat-in-…
(Yes! I designed and developed every tiny detail on the website with Fabien inspired by @kepano . I call it geolocated prose)
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Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza bbc.in/4egT8uf
I read this amazing article on why everyone has ADHD
neubroscience.substack.com/p…
Rohit Gupta retweeted
Palantir has very little to do with Hegel but tech CEOs like Karp love to invoke philosophy to aestheticize and sophisticate the much simpler and more vulgar projects that they are undertaking.
In Hegel’s ideal state, you wouldn’t need perpetual surveillance because members of the state would themselves identify with the state and would no sooner act against the state’s interests than their own, the two being convergent and continuous with one another.
In a confused, deracinated “civil society” in which neighbors do not speak the same language or share anything tangible in common, an external ‘state’ that stands apart from its individual members, replete with Flock cameras on every street corner, is required to keep people in tow, to instill obedience through a form of suspended terror and violence.
Like bruno munari wrote "supplemento al dizionario italiano" for italian hand gestures.. we should write one for our head gestures :)
Rohit Gupta retweeted
human-in-the-loop
└ human-on-the-loop
└ human-near-the-loop
└ human-cc'd-on-the-loop
└ human-legally-liable-for-the-loop
"Cognitive research suggests that because AI tools make tasks feel easier and enhance visible performance, users are often unable to accurately judge the true status of their own skills."
I see this a lot when teaching design students using AI.
newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-is…
Getting really concerned about the French debt crises looming over the world economy (particularly the EU).
"Adding agents to a project with unclear requirements gets you the wrong answer faster."
j11g.com/the-mythical-man-mo…
Rohit Gupta retweeted
Maya-2 voice model weights are officially live! 🇮🇳🇮🇳
The frontier voice model for India is now completely open-weight.
• Outperforms ElevenLabs v3, Sarvam Bulbul v3, and Cartesia Sonic 3.5
• 1.5B+ people covered across all 28 states and 8 union territories
• SOTA voice synthesis across 11 official languages
• 20 native speakers pre-loaded, ready out of the box
• Best-in-class zero-shot voice cloning
Built by a team of five from the land of languages.
Go build and have fun!
Interesting read: "the primary impacts of AI art will be on culture and society rather than the macroeconomy."
apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fa…
