Introducing Woosh: Sony AI's Sound Effect Foundation Model
Sony AI has been working on a problem most generative audio models have overlooked: sound effects. Specifically, the tools that sound designers, game...
Sony AI at ICASSP 2026: Research Roundup
Introduction Sony AI will present 11 accepted papers at ICASSP 2026 in Barcelona this May. The work spans music understanding, generative audio,...
Advancing AI: Highlights from April
April was a defining month for Sony AI. Project Ace, the table tennis research project five years in the making, reached the cover of Nature and...
Sony AI at ICLR 2026: Research Roundup
For several years, Sony AI has contributed research to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), engaging in conversations...
Inside Project Ace: Discover the Robot Athlete That Competes With Professional Table Tennis Players
On a recent afternoon in Tokyo, Sony AI Director and Lead Engineer, Peter Dürr, alongside project team members, watched a table-tennis ball vanish...
Studying the Risks and Benefits of AI Companions: Researchers Discuss a New Framework for Understanding AI Companionship
AI systems are beginning to occupy a new role in people’s lives.
Advancing AI: Highlights from March
This month, Sony AI's work spans the foundations of generative models and the frontiers of audio and signal processing research. More than 10 papers...
Advancing AI: Highlights from February
February at Sony AI was defined by momentum across global stages, research publications, and conversations about how AI moves from theory into...