🤖 Mistral AI Unveils Rival to GPT-4, Meta's First True AR Glasses Reveal, Exodigo's $105M for Underground AI Maps
🤖 Mistral AI Unveils Rival to GPT-4, Meta's First True AR Glasses Reveal, Exodigo's $105M for Underground AI Maps
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Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant. Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows. The company is launching a new flagship large language model called Mistral Large. When it comes to reasoning capabilities, it is designed to rival other top-tier models, such as GPT-4 and Claude 2. By Romain Dillet via TechCrunch
𝕏: 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… - Guillaume Lample (@GuillaumeLample)
Meta aims to reveal and demo Orion, its first true AR glasses, during its fall developer conference. Meta plans to show off years of work on new augmented-reality glasses during its developer conference this year. The company's first version of what's considered "true" AR glasses, an internal project referred to as Orion, is poised to be revealed this fall, most likely during Meta's annual Connect conference for third-party developers. By Kali Hays via Business Insider
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AI Startup Exodigo Raises $105 Million to Make Underground Maps. Greenfield Partners, Zeev Ventures lead Series A round Startup makes maps for utility, transport, construction firms. Exodigo, a startup that uses artificial intelligence and sensors to map the underground, closed a $105 million funding round led by Greenfield Partners and Zeev Ventures. By Saritha Rai via Bloomberg
𝕏: The next Great American Novel might be written by an AI, from a startup founded in Berlin. - Ingrid (@ingridlunden)
How Wi-Fi sensing became usable tech. Fast-forward nearly a decade: we have yet to see a commercially viable Wi-Fi device for tracking breathing or detecting falls. In 2022, the lighting company Sengled demonstrated a Wi-Fi lightbulb that could supposedly do both —but it still hasn’t been released. By Meg Duff via MIT Technology Review
Exclusive: Enkrypt raises seed round to create a 'control layer' for generative AI safety. Boston-based Enkrypt AI, a startup that offers a control layer for the safe use of generative AI, today announced it has raised $2.35 million in a seed round of funding, led by Boldcap. While the amount isn't as massive as AI companies raise these days, the product offered by Enkrypt is quite interesting as it helps ensure private, secure and compliant deployment of generative AI models. By Shubham Sharma via VentureBeat
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