France’s open ChatGPT competitor

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

From outperforming top models to offering cutting-edge features totally free, Mistral continues to make daring moves.

Could the French startup’s latest open powerhouse release mark the start of an AI power shift away from Silicon Valley? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Mistral’s recent multimodal powerhouse

• Perplexity launches AI-powered shopping

• Create AI presentations with customized visuals

• ChatGPT outperforms doctors in diagnostic challenge

• 5 recent AI tools & 5 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MISTRAL AI

🚀 Mistral’s recent multimodal powerhouse

The Rundown: French AI startup Mistral just released Pixtral Large, a 124B parameter multimodal model that marks the corporate’s most advanced AI system yet — also transforming its Le Chat platform right into a comprehensive workspace rival.

The small print:

• Pixtral Large outperforms top models on math reasoning and real-world tasks, also beating Gemini 1.5 Pro and GPT-4o on chart and document understanding.

• The model contains a 128K context window able to concurrently processing 30 high-res images or a 300-page book.

• Mistral’s Le Chat platform gains recent features, resembling web search, document evaluation, and image generation (powered by Black Forest Labs’ Flux Pro).

• A brand new Canvas feature enables real-time content creation and editing, just like recent releases from OpenAI and Anthropic.

• The model is obtainable under research and industrial licenses, while Le Chat’s recent features are free during beta.

Why it matters: Mistral’s release shows just how narrow the gap between open and closed AI models is getting. While U.S. firms have dominated the space, Mistral’s emergence as Europe’s AI champion — while offering freely accessible state-of-the-art capabilities — signals a potentially major shift within the industry’s competitive landscape.

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PERPLEXITY

🛍️ Perplexity launches AI-powered shopping

The Rundown: Perplexity just introduced a brand new shopping experience for its Pro users in the US, allowing users to leverage AI to research, discover, and buy products directly on the platform.

The small print:

• The system goes beyond basic product search, understanding complex queries like “stuff I would like for a disco party” and providing curated recommendations.

• Pro subscribers get a “Buy with Pro” feature with free shipping, allowing one-click purchases without leaving Perplexity’s interface.

• A brand new “Snap to Shop” tool lets users photograph real-world items and immediately find them online.

• Unlike traditional e-commerce sites, recommendations are currently unsponsored and driven purely by AI evaluation of product information.

Why it matters: AI has already been infused into the search giants, but this move is a direct shot at users’ traditional process when researching a product to purchase. As we’ve seen with search engines like google and yahoo, the challenge will likely be maintaining truly unbiased recommendations and avoiding the industrial allure of ads.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Create AI presentations with customized visuals

The Rundown: Gamma enables you to select amongst multiple AI image generators, each optimized for various visual styles and content types, helping you create the right presentation visuals.

Step-by-step:

1. Enroll for a free Gamma account and log in to your dashboard.

2. Select “Create recent”, select “Presentation”, and pick the variety of cards.

3. After generating your initial outline, locate the image model selector in settings.

4. Pick from options like Playground 2.5 (vivid illustrations), Flux Fast (quick generation), or Imagen 3 (detailed instructions).

5. Preview different styles in your presentation and download it when ready.

Pro tip: Use Flux Pro 1.1 for professional-quality faces and other people in your presentations or Ideogram to have legible text in your visuals.

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AI RESEARCH

🏥 ChatGPT outperforms doctors in diagnostic challenge

The Rundown: A brand new study from the UVA Health System revealed that ChatGPT-4 achieved significantly higher diagnostic accuracy than physicians working alone or with AI assistance, difficult assumptions about how AI tools should integrate into medical practice.

The small print:

• The study tested 50 physicians across multiple hospitals, with each doctor given an hour to offer diagnoses and explanations for several case studies.

• The AI scored 90% accuracy on complex medical cases, while doctors using ChatGPT scored 76%, and people without AI scored 74%.

• The study noted that many doctors didn’t utilize the AI’s full capabilities, treating it more like a search engine than a diagnostic partner.

• Researchers also found doctors often dismissed ChatGPT’s suggestions after they conflicted with the physicians’ initial diagnoses.

• Results remained consistent across different experience levels, from residents to attending physicians

Why it matters: This study challenges assumptions about AI as only a helper tool for doctors. An older GPT-4 model outperforming physicians (even those using AI) suggests we want to rethink how the tech is integrated into medical practice and effectively teach doctors to collaborate with a robust recent diagnostic partner.

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Latest AI Job Opportunities

• 🖥️ The Rundown – Full Stack Developer

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• ☁️ Dataiku – Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud

• 📈 Glean – Business Sales Manager

• 🤝 Mistral AI – User Care Expert

QUICK HITS

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ElevenLabs debuted customizable conversational AI agents on its developer platform, allowing users to construct voice-enabled bots with flexible language models and knowledge bases.

Microsoft unveiled BiomedParse, a GPT-4-powered AI system able to analyzing medical imagery to discover various conditions, from tumors to COVID-19 infections, through easy text prompts.

The National Institutes of Health introduced TrialGPT, an AI algorithm that matches patients to clinical trials with the identical accuracy as human clinicians, reducing screening time by 50%.

Google.org launched a $20M funding initiative to speed up AI-driven scientific breakthroughs, offering academic and nonprofit organizations cloud credits and technical support.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team as a co-chair, signaling the brand new administration’s push to strengthen ties with the tech industry.

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THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team