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Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models

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French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday – a 10-model release that includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities, and nine smaller offline-capable, fully customizable models. The launch comes as Mistral, which develops open-weight language models and a Europe-focused AI chatbot Le Chat, has […]

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What does it mean when Uncle Sam is one of your biggest shareholders? Chip startup xLight is about to find out

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The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into xLight, a semiconductor startup developing advanced chip-making technology, marking the third time the U.S. government has taken an equity position in a private startup and further expanding a controversial strategy that has put Washington on the cap tables of American companies. The Wall

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Apple just named a new AI chief with Google and Microsoft expertise, as John Giannandrea steps down

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In a carefully worded announcement on Monday, Apple said John Giannandrea, who has been the company’s AI chief since 2018, is “stepping down” to, well, not work at Apple anymore. He’ll stick around through spring as an advisor. His replacement is Amar Subramanya, a highly regarded Microsoft executive who spent 16 years at Google, most

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Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research

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Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models on Monday as it works to build the backbone technology for physical AI, including robots and autonomous vehicles that can perceive and interact with the real world. The semiconductor giant announced Alpamayo-R1, an open reasoning vision language model for autonomous driving research at the NeurIPS AI conference in

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Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack

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Nvidia is investing $2 billion into Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips. The deal deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts have started to scrutinize increasingly common circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble. Nvidia said it bought Synopsys shares at $414.79 each as part of a

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‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’

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James Cameron’s movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology — especially the “Avatar” films, with their heroic blue Na’vi characters brought to life through performance capture. But that doesn’t make Cameron a fan of generative AI. In a CBS Sunday Morning interview tied to the upcoming release of “Avatar: Fire and

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