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🇫🇷 Mistral Drops Mistral Large Model and Partners with Microsoft

The Bytes:

✣ Microsoft’s investment in Mistral AI is a significant nod to the Parisian startup’s potential. This investment from Microsoft is in addition to the $400 million investment round they got in December.

✣ Mistral AI’s suite, including the impressive new Mistral Large and improved Mistral Small, are set to live on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Mistral Large handles 32k tokens of context.

✣ Mistral AI has a new environment to use its models called, Le Chat. It is a multilingual conversational assistant, set to rival other chatbots, bolstered by Microsoft’s infrastructure.

Why you should care: Microsoft’s backing is a vote of confidence in Mistral’s potential to shape the AI landscape. With its new models running on Azure, Mistral gains a robust platform to scale its operations and reach a global audience. This partnership not only diversifies the AI market but also promises to accelerate innovation and competition, offering users and developers more choices in AI solutions…and I just love Mistral. I’m rooting for them heavily to win some market share.

👀 Google Announces Genie: The AI That Crafts Virtual Worlds & Games

The Bytes:

✣ I mean…this is just awesome. Genie is a groundbreaking AI from Google DeepMind that generates interactive virtual environments from a prompt or image.

✣ With a staggering 11 billion parameters, Genie stands as a foundational world model, weaving together intricate scenarios, worlds, and interactive games.

✣ Genie’s education comes unsupervised from 200,000 hours of public internet gamic videos, bypassing the traditional need for labeled data.

✣ Genie’s latent action model allows users to interact with the generated worlds.

Why you should care: Imagine a future where entire virtual worlds will be generated by users — it’s coming. Genie represents a leap in generative AI, blurring the lines between virtual and reality. For gamers, developers, and creatives, Genie offers a sandbox of infinite possibilities. It’s not just about playing in new worlds; it’s about creating them. As AI continues to evolve, tools like Genie could redefine our interaction with digital spaces, making the creation of complex environments as simple as describing them. Currently still in the research phase. To learn more, read the paper.

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