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法国出版商和作家协会起诉 Meta,称其“大规模盗窃”版权内容训练 AI模型
法国主要出版商和作家协会对 Meta 提起诉讼,指控 Meta 未经授权大规模使用受版权保护的内容来训练其 AI模型。 法国国家出版联盟(SNE)、国家作者与作曲家联盟(SNAC)以及捍卫作者利益的文学家协会(SGDL)在周三的新闻发布会上表示,他们已对 Meta 提起诉讼,指控其涉嫌侵犯版权和经济“寄生”行为。这三大协会认为,作为 Facebook、Instagram 和 WhatsApp 等社…- 866
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France's AI industry to receive €109 billion in private investment, with UAE expected to scoop up €50 billion of it
February 10 news, according to Reuters reports, French President Macron said the country will be opened on Monday (today) on the Paris Artificial Intelligence Summit announced a total of about 109 billion euros (note: the current about 822.958 billion yuan) of private investment to promote the development of artificial intelligence industry. Among them, Canadian investment firm Brookfield plans to invest 20 billion euros (currently about 151.002 billion yuan) in French AI projects, and the UAE could invest as much as 50 billion euros (currently about 3,775 ....) over the next few years. -
French AI chatbot goes offline two days after launch: it gets simple math questions wrong and makes users eat "cow's eggs"
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Lucie, an open-source French-language artificial intelligence chatbot backed by the French government, was quickly taken down two days after its launch for giving ridiculous answers to simple math questions and even suggesting that users consume "cow eggs. Lucie is still in the "early stages of an academic research project," according to a statement released Saturday by the Linagora group, a member of the consortium that developed the model. The group acknowledged that Lucie's release was "rushed" and said it should have been clearer to users about the model's limitations at this stage. The statement said...- 2.3k
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French AI startup Mistral CEO says company won't sell, plans IPO
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Arthur Mensch, founder and chief executive officer of French AI startup Mistral AI, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday that the company is not for sale and is planning to go through an IPO. Arthur Mensch also said in the interview that the company is opening an office in Singapore to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, and is continuing to grow its business in Europe and the United States. continuing to grow its business in Europe and the United States. Like its larger U.S. rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, the company was founded in 202...- 1.4k
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Pixtral 12B Released: Mistral Open Sources First Multimodal AI Big Model
TechCrunch reported yesterday (September 11) that French AI startup Mistral has released Pixtral 12B, the company's first multimodal AI big speech model capable of processing images and text simultaneously. The Pixtral 12B model has 12 billion parameters, or about 24GB in size, and the parameters roughly correspond to the model's problem-solving ability, with models with more parameters generally performing better than those with fewer parameters. The Pixtral 12B model is based on the text model Nemo 12B...- 8.7k
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Mistral's new model Codestral Mamba is faster and can process text twice as long as GPT-4o
Recently, French AI startup Mistral released a new coding model - Codestral Mamba. This model is not only fast, but also can process longer codes, helping programmers and developers improve their work efficiency. Mistral has accumulated a lot of fame in the field of open source AI, and the Codestral Mamba launched this time is even more eye-catching. Codestral Mamba is based on a new architecture called "Mamba", which is more efficient than the traditional transformer architecture. Its design allows the model to process...- 3.3k
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Sequoia Capital leads investment in French artificial intelligence startup Dust, whose founder is a former OpenAI scientist
According to Bloomberg, French startup Dust recently announced the completion of a $16 million financing led by Sequoia Capital, a well-known venture capital firm. Dust focuses on customizing artificial intelligence robots for enterprises and is one of the emerging companies that helps enterprises use large language models more conveniently. It is reported that Dust's main business is to develop software to connect artificial intelligence models from companies such as OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Anthropic and Mistral AI with applications such as Slack. This makes it easier for corporate customers to use advanced AI technology...- 3.9k
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French AI startup Poolside is valued at $2 billion and plans to raise $400 million
French AI startup Poolside.ai plans to raise at least $400 million in this round of financing and set its valuation at $2 billion. The lead investors in this round include Bain Capital Ventures and DSTPoolside.ai is a Paris-based generative AI company focused on accelerating software development. Source: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney Last August, the company had successfully completed a large-scale seed round of financing, raising $126 million in funds…- 6.2k
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Mistral releases its first code generation AI model Codestral
Mistral, a French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, recently released its first generative AI model for coding, Codestral. The model is designed to help developers write and interact with code, supporting more than 80 programming languages including Python, Java, C++ and JavaScript. Mistral said in its blog post that Codestral can complete coding functions, write tests, fill in parts of the code, and answer questions about the code base in English. Although Mis…- 3.4k
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French AI startup Mistral AI is close to reaching new financing agreement with a valuation of $6 billion
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal today, French startup Mistral AI is about to reach an agreement to raise funds at a valuation of $6 billion (currently about 43.38 billion yuan), which is almost three times the valuation six months ago. In the financing last December, Mistral was valued at $2.15 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, existing backers General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners are expected to be the new…- 1.2k