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Daily Summary: Mistral, OpenAIs new competitor

Hey folks. Here are the key highlights for today:

  • Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI 💰

  • Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI 🖼️

  • Nvidia's new laptops with AI chips 💻🧠

🚀 Headlines & Launches


Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI (2 minute read)

Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that's valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 billion). Mistral is announcing a new AI model today, called Mistral Large. It's designed to more closely compete with OpenAI's GPT-4 model.

Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI (5 minute read)

Google has acknowledged an issue with its AI model Gemini. The model injected inappropriate diversity into historical images, reflecting problems with bias in training data.

Gemini is about to slide into your DMs (3 minute read)

Google's AI chatbot is coming to Messages courtesy of an Android update. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.

Nvidia announced new AI chips in a laptop-friendly package (3 minute read)

The new NVIDIA RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPUs will be available in new, highly portable mobile workstations, expanding the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture-based lineup driving AI-Enhanced workflows from anywhere.

🧠 Research & Innovation


Snap Video Model (10 minute read)

Snap research has trained a video generation model called Snap Video.

AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles (Paper)

AlphaFold is used to predict the state of a protein after folding by adding flow matching.

New AI model could streamline operations in a robotic warehouse (5 minute read)

By breaking an intractable problem into smaller chunks, a deep-learning technique by MIT identifies the optimal areas for thinning out traffic in a warehouse.

🛠️🔥 Top Tools


Discover Daily - A podcast by ElevenLabs and Perplexity

Owl - A personal wearable AI that runs locally

Mindy - Email-based Chief of Staff powered by AI.

Agent Studio by Hyperwrite AI - Show it a task once by doing it yourself, and the AI can repeat it

Chatter - AI Powered language learning chatbot

Particle - An AI-powered news reader by former Twitter engineers

That's all for todays post. If you have any comments or feedback, please let me know!

Thanks for reading,

on February 27, 2024