Mistral drops two new models

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While everyone waits for the likes of Gemini 2 and Claude 3.5 Opus, Mistral just threw a curveball and surprised us with two new models, including one that’s multimodal. And: The one-year anniversary that OpenAI would rather not talk about.

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Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: Mistral’s models, Coke’s experiment, and OpenAI’s emails

• Tutorial: How to learn anything 10x faster with AI

• Nvidia chip issue sparks fears of an AI slowdown

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Green Chairs

TODAY IN AI

1. OpenAI’s biggest open-source challenge yet: OpenAI is looking over its shoulder as French rival Mistral narrows the gap with Pixtral Large, a 124B parameter model that can seamlessly move between text and images. Mistral’s chatbot, Le Chat, is getting several new features too, including a web search function and a text editor. Plus, you can now design your own agents, upload large PDFs, and generate images with Flux.

2. Coca-Cola tries its hand at AI-generated ads: In what might be its biggest ad shakeup in a century, Coke unveiled three new commercials created by AI studio Silverside. They’re modern twists on 1995’s “Holidays Are Coming” ad — which was the first to feature the brand’s now-iconic red holiday trucks. Some viewers welcomed the trip down memory lane. Others scorched the commercials for being “cold, robotic, [and] lacking humanity.”

3. Uncovered emails reveal OpenAI’s rocky early days: Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI is bringing up dirty laundry, including tense emails between the startup’s founders from 2015. At one point, Ilya Sutskever (who left OpenAI this year to found his own AGI-focused startup) said he didn’t trust Altman or Musk to be in charge. It’s now been a year since Sutskever tried to axe Altman — only for him to return as CEO days later.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Nvidia chip issue sparks fears of an AI slowdown

For a while, it felt like AI models were on a steady upward trajectory — about as predictable as gravity itself. But a potential Nvidia production snag is bringing the industry back to reality.

Over the past couple weeks, everyone from Anthropic to Alphabet to OpenAI have expressed disappointment with their upcoming models. Most think the only way forward is to shore up bigger and more powerful clusters, with Elon Musk’s xAI trying to gather up 200,000 chips and Meta following close behind.

Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell architecture already had a year-long waiting list — but a newly discovered server overheating problem could push back those deliveries even more. While it’s probably too early to lament the delay of GPT-5 (Nvidia told reporters there’s nothing to worry about) the hangup is a good reminder that even AI startups can’t escape the realities of the supply chain.

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How the CEO of a $1B AI company finds startup ideas | Mike Murchison (CEO & Co-founder, Ada)

Mike Murchison is the co-founder and CEO of Ada, a customer service AI platform that has achieved unicorn status. Ada's mission is to make customer service extraordinary for everyone, addressing a critical problem: the average American spends 40 days of their life waiting on hold. Under Mike's leadership, Ada has evolved from a startup to a leading AI company, transforming how businesses interact with their customers. In our conversation, we discuss:

• How Ada got started and found its first customers

• The journey from human-powered to AI-powered customer service

• The future of customer service jobs

• How enterprises are adopting AI for customer support

• Advice for founders on how to find the next big AI product idea

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

💬 Clone Wars: Taking on rivals like Retell and Vapi, voice cloning startup ElevenLabs will now let users create their own customer-facing AI agents.

👥 Double Whammy: Nvidia unveiled a new LLM-powered physics simulator called Omniverse, plus BioNeMo, an open-source AI platform designed to speed up drug discovery.

🛍️ Personal Shopper: Perplexity will now serve its subscribers shopping recommendations, letting them order products directly on the platform with one click.

🕵️‍♂️ Stalker Shield: After getting sued over privacy concerns in March, Apple is tweaking its second-generation AirTag to protect users from unwanted tracking.

🤖 Mini-Me: Tesla is offering a seven-inch, 1:10 scale version of its Optimus robot, complete with a miniature charging stand and “CyberHammer.”

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