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Michael Nuñez

  • VP, Editorial and Content, Netomi
San Francisco
As seen in: CNN, CNN Underscored, Forbes, Gizmodo Brazil, UOL, HuffPost, Markets Insider, Nature, Aol, Gizmodo and
VP, Editorial & Content @netomi_official. Previously @Venturebeat, @Forbes, @Gizmodo, @Mashable. San Francisco.
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My first VentureBeat story was the 'Woodstock of AI.' My last is Nvidia buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

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By Michael Nuñez
| VentureBeat Verified
Today is my last day as Editorial Director at VentureBeat. When I try to make sense of the last three years, my mind keeps returning to my first weeks on the job. It's a writer's instinct to look for narrative symmetry, but sometimes the universe just hands you the perfect bookend. Three years ago, my first major story at VentureBeat started with a tweet.
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Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed

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By Michael Nuñez
| VentureBeat Verified
Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio. That figure deserves a pause. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour. Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%.
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Your files stay put: Perplexity’s hybrid AI keeps confidential data off the cloud

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By Michael Nuñez
| VentureBeat Verified
Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device.
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