Wikipedia has signed deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral AI. The nonprofit that famously rejected advertising is now a paid data supplier to the AI industry. Google signed in 2022; the rest just caught up. Continue Reading →
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During this week's MMO CMO AI Trasnformation Summit, one key topic was the pressing need for ways to control and moderate LLM output, so Mistral's latest announcement is timely. The company has launched a new moderation API, powered by its fine-tuned Ministral 8B model, designed to classify content across nine categories, including violence, self-harm, and personally identifiable information. Continue Reading →
AI startup Mistral has raised €600 million ($644 million), tripling its valuation to $6 billion. This latest funding round (led by General Catalyst and featuring investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and IBM) will fuel the development of both proprietary and open-source AI models. Continue Reading →
Mistral AI, a French startup backed by Microsoft, has introduced Codestral, its first generative AI coding assistant, which supports over 80 programming languages, including mainstream languages such as Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, and more niche ones like Swift, and Fortran. Codestral is entering a competitive market dominated by platforms like GitHub Copilot and Code Llama. Continue Reading →
Paris-based startup Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large, a new open source AI model that builds on its initial offering, Mistral 7B. Designed for developers, Mistral Large distinguishes itself with exceptional reasoning skills and proficiency in code and mathematics. The model is multilingual and is fluent English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Continue Reading →