🥟 Chao-Down #356 Mistral takes on Meta with new open-source model release, FTC investigates AI-powered surveillance pricing, Data for AI training is disappearing fast

Plus, EU regulation puts the Europe at risk of missing out on AI advancements

Jul 25, 2024

Not to be outdone by Meta claiming all the open-source AI glory, the French startup Mistral also released their own Mistral Large 2 model claiming it to be “large enough” for many practical AI applications.

Based off the benchmarks, the model looks to be competitive across various tasks like code generation and math reasoning, all while fitting in a more compact size of 123 billion parameters.

But with so many models coming out each week, how is anybody supposed to keep up?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Mistral shocks with new open model Mistral Large 2, taking on Llama 3.1 (VentureBeat)

The FTC is investigating AI-powered surveillance pricing (The Verge)

Google AI predicts long-term climate trends and weather — in minutes (Nature)

Data for A.I. Training Is Disappearing Fast, Study Shows (The New York Times)

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry (WIRED)

Meta warns EU regulatory efforts risk bloc missing out on AI advances (ft.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (Meta)

In transit | Does AI change how much my data is worth? (paragraph.xyz)

Are Tech-Enabled Vertical Roll-Ups the Future or the Past? (tidemarkcap.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

VikParuchuri/marker: Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy (Github)

infiniflow/ragflow: RAGFlow is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding. (Github)

mayneyao/eidos: Offline alternative to Notion. Eidos is an extensible framework for managing your personal data throughout your lifetime in one place. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

What Matters in Detecting AI-Generated Videos like Sora? (arxiv)

A False Sense of Safety: Unsafe Information Leakage in 'Safe' AI Responses (arxiv)

Eliminating Position Bias of Language Models: A Mechanistic Approach (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines (The Verge)

Why Silicon Valley loves universal basic income (Fast Company)

Reddit now blocks all search engines other than Google (9to5google.com)

Web3 is the future, a scam, or both: The crypto and NFT rebrand, explained (Vox)

Gambling Enters the Family Zone (The Atlantic)

Pressured to relocate, Microsoft’s AI engineers in China must choose between homeland and career (Rest of World)