Last Week on AI — no.33
The AI industry has been full of drama over the past two weeks, especially among the market’s major players. However, some interesting news has emerged from underdogs such as Mistral, Anthropic, Grok, and Inflection. Let’s take a closer look:
Anthropic released a new generation of AI models, the Claude-3 family: Haiku, Sonnet & Opus. They look promising.
Microsoft has partnered with (invested in) Mistral AI, the billion-dollar French startup. With Mistral’s newest and most capable model (“Mistral Large”) being close-sourced, is MSFT abandoning open source?
Elon Musk tweeted that xAI will open-source Grok, their AI Chatbot. We’ve seen many similar opinions over the years, including those from Elon’s Twitter account. One thing remains true: he’ll keep entertaining us with the news and drama in tech.
The endless drama story in tech companies keeps entertaining us. Linwei Ding, a former Google employee, has been arrested in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to AI services. Ding is accused of selling these secrets to Chinese development companies and even represented one of these companies as CEO during an investor conference in Beijing. He resigned from his position (Junior developer) at Google on December 26th.
A Research team at Spotify published a paper about GNN (Graph Neural Networks) for the scalable recommendation system powering personalized audiobook recommendations on the music platform.
Inflection AI released the newest version (2.5) of their in-house model, competitive with all the world’s leading LLMs, like GPT-4 and Gemini, and behins its personal AI assistant: Pi.
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