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French AI startup gets co-opted by MSFT
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Here’s today at a glance:
📖 Mistral Falls
Microsoft announces a partnership (read: licensing their latest models + taking a small equity stake in the firm) with Mistral. Mistral is a French AI startup founded by ex-Meta AI lab researchers.
Mistral originally focused on releasing smaller open-source models, scaling them up over the last 6 months until now, when it’s in striking distance of GPT-4.
The Mistral-Large model:
is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian
has 32k tokens context
has precise instruction following: don’t know how this claim is measured… as it could potentially be full AGI if it means what it’s supposed to mean (obviously not, but they chose the language)
function calling - JSON output formatting
They’re not open-sourcing it for now; it’s available via API or lease in its own environment from MSFT.
Interestingly, Mistral seems to have created multilingual versions of popular benchmarks, and this could be a significant contribution if they decide to open-source this
The model is priced at par with GPT-4.
Still haven’t beaten OpenAI, but we’re probably only a few months away at this point.
Even in AI, the money train seems to be tightening.
As some had expected it to:
This also hedges MSFT position in OpenAI from regulatory scrutiny
Satya playing another masterstroke… you gotta think: Where is Andy Jassy at Amazon in all this?
🗞️ Things Happen
Elon tried to hijack the Mistral announcement to get a feature request in Windows. Ahhh…Twitter
Gartner projects search volume to drop 25% by 2026 due to AI. If this happens, it’s the end of the web as we know it.
Stratechery writer Ben Thompson calls for Sundar Pichai to leave. Punditry would not be effective unless it brainworms the hedge fund managers and causes a rerating of the stock… and that does seem to be happening.. slowly.
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