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Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI

Enlarge / An illustration of a robot holding a French flag, figuratively reflecting the rise of AI in France due to Mistral. It’s hard to draw a picture of an LLM, so a robot will have to do. reader comments 30 On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a… Read More »

In Paris demo, Google scrambles to counter ChatGPT but ends up embarrassing itself

reader comments 98 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of previously announced technologies in a low-key presentation that included losing… Read More »