Ethan B. Holland

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Open Source AI News: Week Ending 03/01/2024

Mistral

“Today, we are releasing Mistral Large, our latest model. Mistral Large is vastly superior to Mistral Medium, handles 32k tokens of context, and is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. We have also updated Mistral Small on our API to a model that is… https://t.co/MO4m6UIJUV” / X – https://twitter.com/GuillaumeLample/status/1762128616849072171

“Mistral just released ‘Mistral Large’, a new open-source model that beats ALL LLMs other than GPT-4 on key benchmarks. The startup also launched a beta version of its open-source ChatGPT competitor ‘Le Chat’. Said it once, and I’ll say it again. Mistral is the dark horse. https://t.co/UcaLiXtEHx” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1762345606217977909 

Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083510/microsoft-mistral-partnership-deal-azure-ai

Au Large | Mistral AI | Frontier AI in your hands – https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/

Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/mistral-ai-releases-new-model-to-rival-gpt-4-and-its-own-chat-assistant/ 

Try Mistral on Poe

NP vs P – Poe – https://poe.com/chat/22uzf1ld40bhfeudqhb 

Gemma

Gemma-7b-FW – Poe – https://poe.com/Gemma-7b-FW 

Meta

Meta plans launch of new AI language model Llama 3 in July, The Information reports | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-plans-launch-new-ai-language-model-llama-3-july-information-reports-2024-02-28/

Other Open Source News

Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines – https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-ai-models-on-hugging-face-backdoor-users-machines/ 

bigcode/starcoder2-15b · Hugging Face – https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-15b

Be Sure To Read “This Week In AI”

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #22: Week Ending 03/01/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 25 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

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Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile. 

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