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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...

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...

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...

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…

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…

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…