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💥 Mistral Announces New Open Source AI Model

Big Takeaway: Paris-based AI startup Mistral just released “Mixtral” their AI model using “advanced mixture of experts” and they are now valued at ~$2B after $415M Series A round. Compare AI models here

• Mistral was founded by ex-DeepMind and Meta employees to create European alternative to OpenAI.

• Launched their first 7B parameter model Mistral 7B in September, available as free download. But Mixtral is an open-source 45B parameter model, almost 7 times more capable.

• Mistral has introduced La Plateforme, which enables API access to hosted versions of Mixtral and its other models, allowing developers to create apps quickly.

🔊 Meta Releases Latest AI Audio Model, Audiobox

Big Takeaway: Yesterday, Meta released Audiobox, a new generative AI model for audio generation. Try it here

• It is capable of generating voices, sound effects, and soundscapes from combinations of voice and text prompts.

• Allows using natural language to describe the desired audio for the model to generate. It enables vocal reutilization by combining voice samples and text-style prompts.

• Although Meta has fallen behind in the GPT style race, they do not face as much competition from the large hitters when it comes to AI audio models; this model is a big step toward democratized, generalized audio AI models.

📲 Samsung Galaxy S24 shaping up to be AI-powered phone

Major leak shows AI features coming in One UI 6.1 software update, including AI-generated wallpapers with customizable weather, portraits, and more. (Full article here)

🏫 Stanford Researchers Introduce ‘Walt’

Stanford researchers recently unveiled W.A.L.T., an AI system capable of producing photorealistic and consistent video from text prompts or still images — as well as outputs with consistent 3D camera movements. (Full article here)

👨‍🏫 Khan Academy’s CEO’s Prediction

Khan Academy’s founder says AI ‘coaches’ will soon submit essays to teachers instead of students. (Full article here)

Adobe Firefly Prompt: Product photos

Adobe Firefly is my go-to for AI image generation. Use this prompt to generate stock product photos.

🔏 Copy and paste the prompt below ⏬

a bottle of perfume on a clean backdrop, surrounded by fragrant white flowers, product photography, minimalistic, natural light

(Insert product) on a clean backdrop, surrounded by (Insert descriptions), product photography, minimalistic, natural light

Here’s the results ⬇️

• Robust Intelligence is a company that focuses on securing enterprises from AI risk (10 job listings)

• Nvidia full-stack computing company and the leading manufacturer of GPUs (1848 job listings)

• Shield AI is an aerospace and defense technology focusing on AI drones and aircrafts (47 job listings)

• Factory AI is a research company focused on building autonomous coding agents (6 job listings)

• OpenAI is a research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. (84 job listings)

• Hugging Face largest open-sourced AI community. 12 job listings

• C3 AI provides enterprise AI applications that meet business-critical needs. 100+ job listings

• Runway is an applied AI research company focusing on art. 13 job listings

Find the answer here

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