👑 Mistral steals Gemma-3's crown

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Today’s Insights

• Nvidia’s big day, ChatGPT Connectors, and hallucination-free LLMs

• Mistral’s new Small 3.1 is best-in-class

• Tutorial: How to fully automate your work tasks with AI

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. What to expect from today’s Nvidia keynote: CEO Jensen Huang has turned Nvidia’s once-niche conference into the “Woodstock for AI.” This time, he’ll try to keep up the momentum by showing off Blackwell Ultra, an update to the company’s already state-of-the-art Blackwell chip. There’s a lot on the line: The $2.95T company needs to explain why AI companies should keep spending on top-of-the-line chips, when Chinese rivals like DeepSeek and Baidu have seemingly built frontier models without these top-end chips.

2. ChatGPT could soon connect to third-party apps: OpenAI is reportedly beta testing a new feature called ChatGPT Connectors that lets you sync the chatbot with external platforms, like Google Drive and Slack. That would unlock all sorts of capabilities: For example, you could summarize meeting notes or find a statistic buried in a 100-page document without having to import your internal data each time.

3. A new LLM can keep other models in check: Patronus AI just unveiled what it says is the first-ever multimodal AI fact-checking tool. It can figure out whether another model is hallucinating across text, images, and soon, audio. Etsy has already started using it to make sure its photo captions are accurate. But it’s also useful for high-stakes industries like law and science, where even subtle mistakes can create big problems.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Mistral one-ups Alphabet’s Gemma-3

Alphabet stunned developers last week with Gemma-3, an open-source model so efficient it can run on a single GPU. But Mistral, one of the largest AI startups in Europe, just upped the ante.

It unveiled Mistral Small 3.1, which also can run on a single GPU, except it’s even more powerful than Gemma-3 and even GPT-4o Mini. In fact, Mistral claims it’s the first time a small open-source model has swept the board across text, languages, long contexts, and multimodal tasks.

What can it be used for? Its speed and efficiency make it especially good for things like function calling (retrieving information from different sources) and virtual assistants. Plus, it’s small enough that researchers and hobbyists can run it locally on a Mac with 32GB RAM.

What it means: While Mistral holds the small-model crown for now, it’s only a matter of time before another startup snatches it away. That competition is a win-win for developers and businesses though: It means cost is becoming less and less of a barrier for companies who want to start using AI.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🪨 Material Departure: The Information reports that Liam Fedus, who led post-training research at OpenAI, is leaving the company to launch a new AI startup centered on discovering new materials.

📱 Bad to Worse: Apple is reportedly running into more trouble bringing new AI capabilities to Siri, but it’s hoping the new iPhone ‘Air,’ set to release this fall, could help turn things around.

🎮 Animation Station: Popular gaming platform Roblox released an open-source AI model called Cube that can turn text prompts into 3D objects.

🧘 Deep Breaths: A new study reveals that chatbots get stressed just like us, especially when we unload our emotions onto them. But they can calm back down by using mindfulness and other relaxation techniques.

💰 Funding: Elon Musk’s xAI acquired video generation startup Hotshot, suggesting it wants to go head-to-head with the likes of OpenAI’s Sora and Alphabet’s Veo-3. And Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify brought on retail-focused AI startup Vantage Discovery as it looks to beef up its AI search capabilities.

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🪄 Pixel Poof: Users have discovered that you can remove watermarks from images with Gemini 2.0 Flash’s new image generation capabilities, although the feature could get scrapped in future updates.

📹 Birds-Eye View: Chinese developers just released a “breakthrough” video model that can change the angle of any clip or turn a stationary shot into a dynamic one. AI educator “Angry Tom” shared 10 of the best examples.

😂 Last Laugh: AI has officially passed the “meme Turing Test,” meaning humans now rate AI-generated memes as funnier than ones created by us, according to a new study shared by Wharton professor Ethan Mollick.

🔥 No Holds Barred: Perplexity took a thinly veiled swipe at Google in a new seven-figure ad starring Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae that’s set to debut on all major streaming platforms.

🤔 Food for Thought: A new chart from the non-profit Hinrich Foundation (and shared by @IterIntellectus) shows that humans will create more data in the next three years “than in all preceding human history.”

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