It’s Wednesday, January 7th: This week, we spotlight LTX-2's open-source 4K video with synced audio, Google's proactive inbox agent CC, and Chatterbox Turbo's human-sounding voice AI—plus high-leverage roles at the edge of applied AI.
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1️⃣ LTX-2: The First Truly Open 4K Video Model That Syncs Sound
About LTX-2: Lightricks' production-ready open-source foundation model that generates native 4K video with synchronized audio in a single pass—weights, inference code, and training all included.
LTX-2 eliminates the post-production scramble of stitching audio to video by rendering both modalities together, aligning motion, dialogue, ambience, and music with natural timing. The model outputs up to 20 seconds of 4K footage at 50 fps with expressive lip sync and high audio fidelity, all while running locally on consumer GPUs with as little as 12GB VRAM.
Ready to own your video pipeline end-to-end? Clone the repo and start generating today.
2️⃣ CC: The AI Agent That Runs Your Inbox Before You Wake Up
About CC: Google Labs' experimental Gemini-powered productivity agent that synthesizes Gmail, Calendar, and Drive into a proactive daily briefing—no prompts required.
CC flips the typical AI assistant model: instead of waiting for you to ask questions, it emails you a personalized "Your Day Ahead" summary every morning, connecting the dots between your schedule, flagged emails, and relevant Drive docs. The agent learns your preferences through two-way email: reply to teach it about yourself, correct information, or add to-dos. Under the hood, CC lives entirely inside Google's ecosystem, giving it native API access to the context that makes productivity decisions actually useful. Currently rolling out via waitlist in the US and Canada, with Google AI Ultra and paid Gemini subscribers prioritized.
Want an executive assistant that synthesizes your digital life before coffee? Join the CC waitlist now.
3️⃣ Chatterbox Turbo: The Open-Source TTS That Laughs, Sighs, and Ships
About Chatterbox Turbo: Resemble AI's MIT-licensed text-to-speech model delivering sub-150ms latency, zero-shot voice cloning, and the first open-source emotion control—with built-in watermarking for responsible deployment.
Chatterbox Turbo solves the two things that kill voice AI in production: awkward timing and missing human noise. Insert paralinguistic tags like [laugh], [sigh], or [chuckle] directly into your script and the model performs those reactions naturally in the cloned voice—no splicing, no post-processing.
MIT licensed, available now on Hugging Face, Replicate, Fal, Modal, and GitHub.
Need voice AI that sounds human and ships responsibly? Clone Chatterbox Turbo and start building.
Here are a few standout opportunities from companies building at the edge of AI. Each role is selected for impact, growth potential, and relevance to our community.
AI Engineer Intern, Engineering, Turing Labs ($4K–$10K/monthly): “We’re building the foundation model nobody sees coming. While OpenAI and Anthropic fight over benchmarks, we’re building something different—AI that understands the $2 trillion CPG industry. As our Foundation Model Research Intern, you won’t be fine-tuning models; you’ll be generating unique datasets never sourced before, designing knowledge distillation pipelines, and creating evaluation metrics for subjective experiences. Your model won’t write poetry—it’ll reformulate products 300 million Americans consume. Forbes called us ‘the Palantir for CPG,’ and we’re on the path to drive 50,000+ products like the next cereal, sauce, or lotion you’ll use.”
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, Engineering, Dataland ($150K–$400K + 1.00% Equity): “We’re the applied AI lab for complex operations and customer support. In 8 months, we’ve grown to multi-million dollar ARR as just two founders and are highly profitable. We’re hiring our first FDE to own customer engagements end-to-end: scoping, building, and deploying state-of-the-art applied AI to automate our customers’ most complex operational challenges—from detecting bad actors on platforms to automating complex backoffice healthcare delivery. Both founders are former Palantir FDEs, and this role is precisely the best training to become a founder yourself. Simply put: write code that makes our customers win and make money.”
Revenue Lead, Sales, SkyLink ($180K–$1M + 0.01%–0.15% Equity): “We’re building the corporate travel chatbot that allows travelers and arrangers to book and manage travel in enterprise chat channels—Slack and Teams—as if they’re speaking to a human travel agent. We’re hiring a Revenue Lead to own complex enterprise deals and help convert early traction into repeatable revenue. This role sits between founder-led sales and a future scaled go-to-market function. We’re backed by YC, Menlo Ventures, Human Capital, and Fortune 50 CEOs. For the right person, this is an opportunity to do some of the most meaningful work of their career.”
People Operational Specialist, Operations, Clinikally (₹600K–₹1M INR): “We’re India’s leading digital health destination for dermatology, nutrition, and wellness—a multi-condition health platform providing telehealth, AI-powered treatment plans, and Rx-grade products. We’re looking for a People Operational Specialist to take ownership of end-to-end recruitment, from creating job descriptions to finalizing hires. You’ll partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, lead offer negotiations, and build a strong pipeline of qualified candidates as we scale our 76-person team and make trusted, science-backed healthcare accessible to millions across India.”
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