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AI Model Release Tracker Europe · updated
  • 1Releases tracked
  • Oct 11Latest · Humaneness Voice Converter
  • 100%Open-weight
  • DEHamburg, Germany

LAION is a Hamburg, Germany-based non-profit organization (LAION e.V.) that releases open datasets, tools and machine learning models to the general public. Funded by donations and public research grants, it has members from around the world and is best known for the LAION-400M and LAION-5B image-text datasets, the LAION-Aesthetics subset and large open CLIP models such as CLIP H/14. Its tracked release, the Humaneness Voice Converter (October 2026), is an open-weight speech-to-speech voice conversion model built on Chatterbox that preserves timing and emotion from a short target clip and is published under CC BY 4.0. All tracked LAION releases are open-weight.

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1 release latest Oct 11, 2026

  1. Humaneness Voice Converter

    Open Chatterbox-based speech-to-speech voice conversion; preserves timing/emotion from a 5–10s target clip; CC BY 4.0 + MIT upstream.

    • Audio
    • Open weights
    Source

LAION FAQ

What is LAION's latest AI model?
LAION's most recent release in the Startrise tracker is Humaneness Voice Converter, released Oct 11, 2026.
How many AI models has LAION released?
Startrise tracks 1 notable LAION release since January 2025, from Humaneness Voice Converter (Oct 11, 2026) to Humaneness Voice Converter.
Does LAION release open-weight models?
Yes. 1 of 1 tracked LAION releases (100%) ship with downloadable weights; the most recent is Humaneness Voice Converter.
Where is LAION based?
LAION is based in Hamburg, Germany.