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In today's Techpresso:
🤖 Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4
📱 Gemini is about to slide into your DMs
🤷♀️ Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018
🛡️ Meta forms team to stop AI from tricking voters
💍 Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring as way to 'simplify everyday wellness'
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4LINK
Mistral AI introduces 'Mistral Large,' a large language model designed to compete with top models like GPT-4 and Claude 2, and 'Le Chat,' a beta chat assistant, aiming to establish an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic's offerings. With aggressive pricing at $8 per million input tokens and $24 per million output tokens, Mistral Large offers a cost-effective solution compared to GPT-4's pricing, supporting English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. The startup also revealed a strategic partnership with Microsoft to offer Mistral models on the Azure platform, enhancing Mistral AI's market presence and potentially increasing its customer base through this new distribution channel.
📱 Gemini is about to slide into your DMsLINK
Google's AI chatbot Gemini is being integrated into the Messages app as part of an Android update, aiming to make conversations more engaging and friend-like, initially available in English in select markets. Android Auto receives AI improvements for summarizing long texts or chat threads and suggesting context-based replies, enhancing safety and convenience for drivers. Google also introduces AI-powered accessibility features in Lookout and Maps, including screen reader enhancements and automatic generation of descriptions for images, to assist visually impaired users globally.
🤷♀️ Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018LINK
Microsoft attempted to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018, aiming to make Bing the default search engine for Safari, but Apple declined due to concerns over Bing's search quality.
The discussions between Apple and Microsoft were highlighted in Google's court filings as evidence of competition in the search industry, amidst accusations against Google for monopolizing the web search sector.
Despite Microsoft's nearly $100 billion investment in Bing over two decades, the search engine only secures a 3% global market share, while Google continues to maintain a dominant position, paying billions to Apple to remain the default search engine on its devices.
🛡️ Meta forms team to stop AI from tricking votersLINK
Meta is forming a dedicated task force to counter disinformation and harmful AI content ahead of the EU elections, focusing on rapid threat identification and mitigation.
The task force will remove harmful content from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, expand its fact-checking team, and introduce measures for users and advertisers to disclose AI-generated material.
The initiative aligns with the Digital Services Act's requirements for large online platforms to combat election manipulation, amidst growing concerns over the disruptive potential of AI and deepfakes in elections worldwide.
💍 Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring as way to 'simplify everyday wellness'LINK
Samsung teased the new Galaxy Ring at Galaxy Unpacked, showcasing its ambition to introduce a wearable that is part of a future vision for ambient sensing.
The Galaxy Ring, coming in three colors and various sizes, will feature sleep, activity, and health tracking capabilities, aiming to compete with products like the Oura Ring.
Samsung plans to integrate the Galaxy Ring into a larger ecosystem, offering features like My Vitality Score and Booster Cards in the Galaxy Health app, to provide a more holistic health monitoring system.
Other news you might like
OpenAI's Sora is slow enough to grab a snack while it generates your video.LINK
Google aims to relaunch Gemini AI image tool in a few weeks.LINK
Former Google video generation expert joins TikTok owner ByteDance amid generative AI race.LINK
FlowGPT is the wild west of GenAI apps.LINK
Apple’s decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU.LINK
Wikimedia’s CTO: In the age of AI, human contributors still matter.LINK
Google DeepMind taps the power of its AI to accelerate quantum computers.LINK
Lenovo’s laptop concept is fully transparent, but the point isn’t entirely clear.LINK
Latest research and tools
DOOM via Console.log(): transforms the iconic game DOOM to run in a web browser using WebAssembly and visualizes it through console.log() by converting game frames into base64 encoded strings applied as background images in console styles.LINK
Readability.js: transforms cluttered web pages into clean, easy-to-read formats.LINK
New car buying guide: an algorithm designed to navigate the complex process of negotiating and purchasing a new vehicle from a U.S. dealership, ensuring the buyer secures the best possible deal and trade-in value.LINK
Functional UI Kit: a set of matching Figma and React components that simplify building user interfaces.LINK
The Snazzy D Compiler: a work-in-progress D compiler that supports advanced features like static ifs, string mixins, and Compile Time Function Execution (CTFE), but lacks many basic ones, aiming to enhance the D toolchain by offering libd for code analysis and various runtime supports through libsdrt, and it's currently not suitable for production use.LINK
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