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A profile of nine-month-old Mistral AI, which wants to be the “most capital-efficient company in the world of AI”, has raised $500M+, and is valued at $2B+ — Led by 31-year-old CEO Arthur Mensch, Paris-based Mistral believes AI systems can be built more efficiently—and much more cheaply| Financial Times: |
As regulators probe Microsoft's OpenAI alliance, Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral and plans to help bring the Paris-based startup's AI models to market — Tech giant unveils partnership with French AI start-up, as regulators probe $13bn alliance with ChatGPT maker| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mistral AI releases Mistral Large, a cheaper GPT-4 rival that supports 32K-token context windows, and Le Chat, a ChatGPT-like chat assistant in public beta — Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024; the device is centered around health and wellness, comes in three colors, and will be available later this year — After teasing it (again) yesterday, Samsung has finally shown off the Galaxy Ring in physical form at Mobile World Conference (MWC 2024) and revealed some additional details.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils AI Hub, a new library of 75+ pre-optimized AI models, X80 5G modem, and FastConnect 7900, a chip that integrates Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and UWB — Qualcomm unveiled a suite of AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
More: Qualcomm, Qualcomm, HotHardware, 9to5Google, The Verge, Maginative, Notebookcheck, Tech Advisor, and Beyond Search
| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources detail their concerns with Apple Arcade: declining developer payouts, cancelled projects, a shift to only greenlighting family-friendly games, and more — Multiple mobilegamer.biz sources have voiced their concern for Apple Arcade's future, citing a glut of cancelled projects and ever-declining developer payouts.| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU is asking developers about the impact of Apple's decision to disable PWAs in the EU, which could be a precursor towards an in-depth probe — Competition regulators in Brussels send questions to developers over iPhone maker's decision — The EU has taken the first steps towards …
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Google announces new Android features, including Gemini integration with Messages, AI-powered text summaries for Android Auto, and AI-generated image captions — The Android updates announced at MWC also include new accessibility features and casting controls for Spotify.
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
Broadcom sells its end-user computing unit to KKR in a deal valued at about $4B — Chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is selling its business which allows users to access desktops and applications from any device to KKR (KKR.N) in a deal valued at about $4 billion, the private equity firm said on Monday.
More: SiliconANGLE, Finbold, Media Center, TechCrunch, The Information, and Constellation Research
| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
Meta outlines its strategy to combat the misuse of generative AI ahead of the European elections in June, including setting up an EU-specific operations center — Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it will form a team to tackle deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) content in the upcoming EU elections in June.
More: Meta, Unite.AI, PCMag, Reuters, TNW, CoinXposure, Yahoo News, Silicon UK, Cointelegraph, Cybernews.com, Silicon Republic, CoinGape, Al Jazeera, and Novinite.com. LinkedIn: Tom Bonsundy-O'Bryan
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Lenovo demos the ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop concept, with a 17.3-inch MicroLED panel and a built-in drawing tablet — The ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop concept even comes with a built-in drawing tablet. Lenovo just needs to find something worth seeing on the other side.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Avail, a modular blockchain project spun out of Polygon in 2023 to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27M seed co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly — - Avail has raised $27 million in seed funding co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly. — Avail is a modular blockchain project that spun out of Polygon last year.
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