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Pixtral Large Beats Closed-Source Models
French company Mistral has released a new beast of an LLM model, Pixtral Large. The 124B parameter model is open source, and beats out even closed models (like GPT-4o) on a wide variety of benchmarks, and comes scarily close on most others.

For tech leaders, this is an indication that we won't be beholden to closed-source, tightly controlled models in our future projects and products, and should explore what open source has to offer.

GPT-4 Outperforms Doctors
A recent study has demonstrated GPT-4 outperforming physicians at diagnosing complex cases. In the study, the AI scored 90% accuracy in its diagnoses, while the doctors scored only 76% when assisted by ChatGPT, and 74% with no AI at all.

At a minimum, this shows that AIs can be great tools for doctors to use, but may also signal a sea change in how an overworked and underfunded medical system might evolve in the near future.

Ad-Supported LLMs
Perplexity had recently started including ads in their AI search results. They claim this is to help support the cost of revenue sharing, despite charging customers $20 per month, and we can't help but see this as a sign of things to come (much like streaming services now including ad-supported plans).

In Brief

• The voice-cloning company, ElevenLabs, now enables you to build full conversational AIs.

• Emails between Sam Altman and Elon Musk released as part of their ongoing court case.

• British telco O2 has created “AI Granny” to help waste the time of phone scammers.

Market Trends

Keeping AIs safe
Learn how researchers are tackling the problems of AI safety and alignment, and how they employ other AIs to help do it.

AIs taking over social media
AI models are raking in huge profits on social media

Purchasing with AI shopping recommendation
AI search engine Perplexity has enabled direct purchasing features into their search results. The AI will recommend products and let users purchase them without needing to visit the vendor's website. They will even ship for free in some instances.

Tools and Resources

Locofy
This AI tool takes graphic designs from apps like Figma and generates the code to make them real. It even supports project exporting to GitHub and VS Code.

Gamma
This app takes your documents and AI-generated ideas and turns them into slideshow presentations and websites.

Gecko Security
Gecko Security purports to analyse your code and identify security flaws before they make their way into the wild.

Recommended Reading

Atlas of AI
An eye-opening exploration of AI's hidden costs - from labor practices to environmental impact - challenging tech leaders to consider the full scope of their AI decisions.

Video: Keeping AI under control
A critical look at the AI alignment problem from MIT's AI expert, Max Tegmark - how to ensure powerful AI systems remain beneficial as they surpass human intelligence.

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