🥐 Microsoft in deal with French OpenAI competitor

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Tuesday’s top story: Microsoft strikes partnership with French-based start-up, Mistral, to bring their Large Language Model (Mistral Large) to market.

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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🥐 Microsoft in deal with French OpenAI competitor

2. 🏰 Disney under pressure to invest in AI

3. 🤖 NVIDIA creates group to develop Robots

4. 📢 Microsoft announces ‘AI access principles’

5. 📰 Ex-Twitter engineers launch AI news-reader

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🥐 Microsoft in deal with French OpenAI competitor

Our Report: Microsoft has announced a partnership with French AI startup, MistraL (founded by former Meta and Google engineers) to bring a new Large Language Model (LLM) to market, rivaling GPT-4 and Claude.

🔑 Key Points: 

• The LLM (Mistral Large)—although smaller than GPT-4—is fluent in five languages and has unique reasoning capabilities, meaning it can draw more accurate conclusions.

• They’re also launching a ChatGPT equivalent—La Chat (aka. the cat)—which is multilingual, is powered by Mistral Large, and is currently in beta for testing.

• The partnership means that all Mistral’s LLMs will be available on Microsoft’s Azure AI platform, allowing the start-up to explore more commercial opportunities, like OpenAI.

• It also means that Microsoft will have a small stake (details are unknown) in the $2.1B startup, after already investing $10B into OpenAI last year.

🤨 Why you should care: This development comes after Microsoft faced antitrust scrutiny for its ties with OpenAI—which was believed to be harming competition—and pledged to make AI models and tools “broadly available” to foster healthy competition.

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🏰 Disney under pressure to invest in AI 

• Activist investor—Blackwells Capital—has blasted Disney for its “unhurried innovation” and “AI mediocrity”, claiming its "significant technological issues" put it behind its peers.

• They have pushed the company to appoint a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) solely dedicated to overseeing innovation and tech transformation efforts across all its sectors

• Currently, they have two CTOs who oversee entertainment, products, and experiences and—according to Blackwells—are "buried under corporate bureaucracy.”

• Blackwells has estimated that Disney shares could see between a 46% and 129% increase in value if the company were to invest in research and development AI initiatives.

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ROBOTICS

🤖 NVIDIA creates group to develop Robots 

• NVIDIA has created a research group called GEAR (Generalist Embodied Agent Research) to develop AI-powered robots and agents for virtual and real worlds.

• The group founders (Jim Fan and Yuke Zhu) believe “in a future where every machine that moves will be autonomous, and robots will be as ubiquitous as iPhones.”

• The group’s first projects will involve building general-purpose robots and a ‘Foundation Agent’ that can learn to act skillfully, in both virtual and real reality.

• They have previously worked on projects including building AI-powered agents for Minecraft and a learning technique that creates robotic “dexterity at a super-human level.”

ANTITRUST LAWS

📢 Microsoft announces ‘AI access principles’

• Following the announcement of a partnership with—Mistral—Microsoft has also outlined a set of AI access principles for the development and deployment of AI.

• Included in these principles is a pledge to partner with a “broad array” of industry companies, to prove that their investment in OpenAI isn’t harming healthy competition.

• Other principles include their commitment to providing broader support for AI developers, ensuring fairness across the AI economy, and investing in AI up-skilling initiatives.

• These principles also align with their investment in AI data centers across Europe and show their commitment to empowering “organizations to develop and use AI in ways that will serve the public good”.

AI NEWS

📰 Ex-Twitter engineers launch AI news-reader 

• Ex-Twitter engineers have launched Particle (in private beta) which uses AI to make it easier to consume news and is funded by Twitter and Medium angel investors.

• Particle uses AI to provide multi-perspective news summaries—sourced from various news outlets—while ensuring compensation for authors and publishers.

• This comes at a concerning time for news publications as AI-summarized news is limiting clicks to their websites, meaning they’re struggling to monetize advertising.

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