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Hereās today at a glance:
š Mistral Falls
Microsoft announces a partnership (read: licensing their latest models + taking a small equity stake in the firm) with Mistral. Mistral is a French AI startup founded by ex-Meta AI lab researchers.
We're announcing a multi-year partnership with @MistralAI, as we build on our commitment to offer customers the best choice of open and foundation models on Azure.
ā Satya Nadella (@satyanadella)
5:18 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
Mistral originally focused on releasing smaller open-source models, scaling them up over the last 6 months until now, when itās in striking distance of GPT-4.
The Mistral-Large model:
is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian
has 32k tokens context
has precise instruction following: donāt know how this claim is measuredā¦ as it could potentially be full AGI if it means what itās supposed to mean (obviously not, but they chose the language)
function calling - JSON output formatting
Theyāre not open-sourcing it for now; itās available via API or lease in its own environment from MSFT.
Interestingly, Mistral seems to have created multilingual versions of popular benchmarks, and this could be a significant contribution if they decide to open-source this
Mistral published these multilingual benchmarks. As far as I know there are no published translated versions of these anywhere.
Did they just use machine translation?
Does a translated version of HellaSwag even make sense?Please publish them or they are meaningless!
ā xlr8harder (@xlr8harder)
7:29 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
The model is priced at par with GPT-4.
mistral-large costs %20 less than gpt4-turbo, but mistrals tokenizer results in %20 more tokens on average. You just use a worse model for the same $$$
ā Xeophon (@TheXeophon)
5:53 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
Still havenāt beaten OpenAI, but weāre probably only a few months away at this point.
If mistral's new large model couldn't surpass gpt-4, what hope does anyone else have? OpenAI lead is > 1 year
ā anton (@abacaj)
5:30 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
Even in AI, the money train seems to be tightening.
Not gonna lie; I am sad about Mistral not open-sourcing any of their models š¢
I thought they were on the OSS team.
ā Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy)
7:13 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
As some had expected it to:
Told you so!*
(*that the only biz model for even the best model startups is being acquired by or otherwise entering into an encumbered relationship w one of the big US infra providers. Meaning thereās no chance rn for meaningful EU (or, other) competition w US AI giants.)
ā Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith)
6:57 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
This also hedges MSFT position in OpenAI from regulatory scrutiny
Microsoft strikes a deal with Mistral . Here is what you need to know:
* $MSFT will help bring Mistral models to market. $MSFT gets a minority stake in Mistral
* Push gives $MSFT flexibility moving forward if OpenAI comes under regulatory scrutinyā Ralph Brooks (@ralphbrooks)
2:49 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
Satya playing another masterstrokeā¦ you gotta think: Where is Andy Jassy at Amazon in all this?
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šļø Things Happen
Elon tried to hijack the Mistral announcement to get a feature request in Windows. Ahhhā¦Twitter
@MistralAI Satya, I donāt mean to be a pest, but please allow people setting up a new Windows PC to skip creating a Microsoft account.
This option disappears if the computer is connected to WiFi.
Also, even if you do want to sign up, it wonāt allow you use a work email address and Iā¦ twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā¦
ā Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
5:53 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
Gartner projects search volume to drop 25% by 2026 due to AI. If this happens, itās the end of the web as we know it.
Search engine volume expected to drop by 25% and shift towards answer engines (perplexity) and chatbots (chatgpt), according to Gartner.
ā Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas)
4:47 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
Stratechery writer Ben Thompson calls for Sundar Pichai to leave. Punditry would not be effective unless it brainworms the hedge fund managers and causes a rerating of the stockā¦ and that does seem to be happening.. slowly.
Wow.... Ben Thompson calling for Sundar Pichai to be replaced
ā Ernest Wong (@ErnestWongBWM)
4:03 PM ā¢ Feb 26, 2024
š¼ļø AI Artwork Of The Day
Absurd Products - u/Jaade77 from r/MidJourney
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