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New logo and migration to Astro: jls42.org gets a facelift
Discover the new logo incorporating AI symbolism and the complete migration of the blog from Hugo to Astro, with automatic translation into 15 languages.
jls42.org
Personal blog about AI, infrastructure and tech projects
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Babel Fish AI: New Features, Context Menu, Auto-Copy, Code Quality Control, etc.
With Babel Fish AI, I previously introduced a Chrome extension able to convert voice to text via OpenAI's Whisper API, also offering real-time translation. Today I'm back with a batch of new features and many improvements: from the context menu to automatic copying of the transcribed text, including automatic rephrasing (now activatable from a button in the banner), this post takes stock of the changes since the very first version.
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Launch of Babel Fish AI: Chrome Extension for Voice Transcription and Translation
Babel Fish AI, a personal project, is an innovative Chrome extension that converts voice to text with exceptional accuracy, while offering an optional automatic translation feature. Designed to be reliable and ad-free, it provides high-quality voice transcription via OpenAI's Whisper API. I created this extension partly to address a personal need: to simplify communication with AIs by dictating my requests.
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Update: LibreChat version v0.7.6 with automated deployment on AWS EC2
I'm happy to announce that my automated deployment project for LibreChat on AWS EC2 has been updated to fix issues related to recent changes in how LibreChat is installed, while now supporting version v0.7.6.
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Integrate the OpenAI o1-preview model into a Python script with LaTeX expression handling
Discover how to integrate the new OpenAI o1-preview model into a Python script to enhance your AI projects. This script allows you to interact with the OpenAI API using the o1-preview model, with the ability to include web content in prompts via a web scraping feature. It also correctly handles LaTeX math expressions in the model's responses, converting them into readable Unicode text in the terminal.
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More AI translations with GPT-4o now available on the blog!
I am delighted to announce that my blog is opening even more to the world with the addition of eight new languages for automatic translations of my artic...
Latest AI News
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AI News of January 4, 2026: OpenAI Grove, Your Year with ChatGPT, Qwen-Image-2512
Early 2026: OpenAI launches Grove for founders, Your Year with ChatGPT rolled out, 2025 developer recap, and Qwen-Image-2512 available.
AI News December 31, 2025: Grok Business, Manus joins Meta, WAN 2.6
End of 2025: xAI launches Grok Business and Collections API, Manus joins Meta AI, WAN 2.6 improves video consistency, Runway and Adobe partner up.
Z.ai: GLM-4.7 dominates open-source and IPO approaches
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) launches GLM-4.7, new open-source leader surpassing GPT-5.1 on Vending-Bench2, and prepares for its IPO on January 8, 2026.
AI News December 29, 2025: Claude 2x Usage, Qwen TTS, Mistral Skills
Weekly recap: Claude 2x usage promo, Qwen3-TTS with voice cloning, Mistral Vibe CLI Skills, ChatGPT Atlas security, and Gemini photo editing.
AI News Dec 23: Qwen, xAI and Gemini Year-End Wrap-up
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, Grok Collections API with integrated RAG, xAI-DOW partnership, NotebookLM Data Tables and Gemini CLI v0.22-23.
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FLUX.2 [max]: Black Forest Labs launches its most powerful model
Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX.2 [max] with web contextual generation and support for 10 reference images. World #2 on ArtificialAnlys.
Projects
View project Babel Fish AI: Voice Transcription and Translation Extension
Open-source browser extension for voice transcription and translation. Built with Roo Code, maintained with Claude Code and Gemini CLI. Chrome and Firefox.
Multilingual Automation: My AI-Powered Markdown Translator Script
Open-source Python script to translate Markdown files via the OpenAI, Mistral AI, Claude and Gemini APIs. A project born from my collaboration with AI.
Automated Deployment of LibreChat on AWS EC2: An Innovative DevOps Solution
Fully automated deployment of LibreChat on AWS EC2 with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD and AWS SSM. Operational instance in under 6 minutes with optimized costs.
StoryPixAI: Generate Children's Illustrated Stories with AI and AWS
Interactive web application that generates personalized children's stories with AI illustrations. Uses GPT-4, DALL-E 3, AWS Lambda and Terraform.