Mistral.ai had a major release: mistral.ai/news/mistral-3

Three smaller, dense models and Mistral 3 Large, a large mixture-of-experts model (41B active and 675B total parameters). According to the first benchmarks, this puts it in the same league as the best open models (currently all Chinese).

Mistral's release includes the base model, not just the fine-tuned version as it had become more common. Plus, they used an Apache 2.0 license. That combination will likely open up fine-tunes from the community and makes it more useful for companies.

Mistral 3 Large is not a reasoning model, but they mentioned that a reasoning version should be coming soon.

I didn't have the chance to try them out myself. For specific problems like German content, I personally found Mistral 2 Large (from 2024) still doing better than the top Chinese ones (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM), even if they otherwise are very capable.

Mistral 3 Large has been released here:
* huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistr…
* huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistr…

#mistral #ai #llm

mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Base-2512 · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘓𝘦𝘔𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

theatlantic.com/technology/202…

Version without paywall:

archive.is/oHoVO

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

Rise of the LLeMmings

^{Lila Shroff (The Atlantic)}

The Grinch did nothing wrong. He wasn't *stealing* #Christmas, he was just gathering a corpus for training his #AI model. Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the construction of the Whoville Data Center, ignoring concerns from residents.

#llm

I heard there was a secret tool
That you could use if you were a fool
But you don't care for PDF files, do ya?

It goes like this: you click "log in"
A chatbot bubble blocks the screen
Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in

#ai #llm

I was at Molasses Books in Bushwick last night, taking with my cousin about TBL's latest book, and the design of online systems. A shy but brave young woman asked if she could listen in. I introduced myself and welcomed her in to the conversation.

We talked a bit about various things, twitter and theater and art and connection. She was bright abd curious, made great points and asked great questions, had a charming sweet smile.

Near the end of it conversation, as we were getting ready to roll to our reservation at Win Son, she said something strange.

"Right now I think that ChatGPT has become my best friend."

I stopped and looked at her. "Don't trust it. It's lying to you. It's only pretending to be your friend."

"So I should trust people instead?"

"Yes. I mean, don't be foolish, but trust people over machines."

And then it was time to go. But I still want to go back and find her, give her a big hug, sit her down over a coffee, and tell her ...

DON'T TRUST THE ROBOTS

#ai #llm

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

vivaldi.com/blog/keep-explorin…

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser

Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over…

^{Jon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)}