Meta is making it easier for artists and sound designers to produce audio using only AI. The Facebook owner has released an open source AudioCraft kit that bundles three existing generative AI models for creating sounds from text descriptions. AudioGen and MusicGen respectively produce sound effects and music, while EnCodec compresses sounds to produce higher-quality results. A musician or sound designer might have everything they need to compose pieces. The release includes pre-trained AudioGen models for those who want to start quickly, and tinkerers will have access to the entire AudioCraft code and model weighting.

Facebook parent company Meta announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence free software platform that supports both NVIDIA and AMD chips, making it easier for developers to develop artificial intelligence programs between hardware systems based on different chips. Meta's newly released set of artificial intelligence open source software is built on the basis of the PyTorch open source machine learning framework, which can make the code on Nvidia's flagship A100 chip run 12 times faster, and also make the code on AMD's MI250 chip run faster. Meta said in a blog post that the AI software platform not only speeds up code execution but also supports AI chips from different manufacturers. At present, software development has become a key area for chip manufacturers to build developer ecosystems and use their own chips. For example, CUDA developed by NVIDIA is very popular. However, after developers develop artificial intelligence code based on Nvidia chips through CUDA, it is difficult to run on graphics and image processing chips made by companies such as Nvidia's rival AMD.