From 5288d116f50bc375df1218c50ff6bc0297aa6542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Travis Fischer Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:45:33 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E2=9C=85?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- .../daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-back.md | 153 ++++++++++++ .../daily-digest-research-alpha.md | 98 ++++++++ .../gemini-pro-api-now-live.md | 33 +++ ...penai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months.md | 190 +++++++++++++++ .../bensbites.beehiiv.com/newsletter.json | 222 +++++++++++++++++- ...n-ai-makes-licensing-deal-alex-springer.md | 23 ++ ...ity-ai-starts-20month-subscription-plan.md | 23 ++ 7 files changed, 740 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-back.md create mode 100644 fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-research-alpha.md create mode 100644 fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/gemini-pro-api-now-live.md create mode 100644 fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/mistral-ai-openai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months.md create mode 100644 fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/open-ai-makes-licensing-deal-alex-springer.md create mode 100644 fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/stability-ai-starts-20month-subscription-plan.md diff --git a/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-back.md b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-back.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c035f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-back.md @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +# Daily Digest: ChatGPT plus is back + +### PLUS: Gemini Pro in API, Mistral's path to $2B and OpenAI spends money on news. + +[Sign up](https://www.bensbites.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)|[Advertise](https://sponsor.bensbites.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)|[Ben’s Bites News](https://news.bensbites.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\ +Daily Digest #306 + +Hello folks, here’s what we have today; + +###### **PICKS** + +1. I wrote a deep-dive on[Mistral, an OpenAI competitor that has rocketed to $2bn in less than 12 months](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/mistral-ai-openai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months). I dive into their seed deck and analyse their roadmap to see what they’ve achieved vs what they set out to do. And I take a look at how people are using it, what developers are saying about it and what opportunities there are. + +2. [Google has made Gemini Pro available in API](https://blog.google/technology/ai/gemini-api-developers-cloud/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back). Gemini Pro is the**2nd-best model**from its new family of AI models Gemini. Gemini Pro is**currently free**for developers and enterprises to[start building](https://ai.google.dev?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)with.🍿[Our Summary](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/gemini-pro-api-now-live)(also below) + +3. Some more stuff from Google: + + - [Duet AI for Developers](https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/duet-ai-for-developers-googles-github-copilot-competitor-is-now-generally-available-and-will-soon-use-the-gemini-model/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)-**Google’s AI code assistant**is now generally available. + + - [Imagen 2](https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen-2/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)- Google’s new**text-to-image**model. + +4. [Axel Springer, a big media company, is teaming up with OpenAI](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/axel-springer-and-openai-partner-to-deepen-beneficial-use-of-ai-in-journalism?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back), the creators of ChatGPT. They want to use AI to improve journalism. The companies will**integrate recent news content into ChatGPT**to provide users with authoritative, up-to-date information.🍿[Our Summary](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/open-ai-makes-licensing-deal-alex-springer)(also below) + +5. Some more OpenAI news: + + - [Converge 2](https://www.openai.fund/news/converge-2?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)- The second cohort by Open AI fund.**Six-week program**for exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine the world. + + - [ChatGPT Plus is back](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1734984269586457078?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)for everyone. Sam and team have\*\*found more GPUs.\*\*Also, try selecting something in ChatGPT’s reply, a new subtle feature is there. + + - Rumours are that[GPT-4.5](https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/1735260556892967170?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)is coming soon. 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(finally launched!) + +- [Coffee by Coframe](https://github.com/Coframe/coffee?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)- Build and**iterate on your UI**10x faster with AI - right from your own IDE. + +- [Nex](https://www.nex.art/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)- New tools for**digital media creation**and storytelling. + +- [Agora](https://www.searchagora.com/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)- The search engine for**e-commerce products.** + +- [Save time by My Ask AI](https://myaskai.com/?m=save-time\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)- Less time on customer support, more time on**customer success.** + +[View more →](https://news.bensbites.co/tags/show?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\ +\*sponsored + +###### **NEWS** + +- \*\*[How an AI researcher uses ChatGPT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeKEXnNP2yA\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\*\*and Notion AI to augment his mind. + +- How I used\*\*[Google Forms and AI](https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/google-forms-ai-apps-script/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\*\*to analyze 1,700 survey responses. + +- a16z’s announced their open source\*\*[AI grants cohort 2.](https://a16z.com/announcing-our-latest-open-source-ai-grants?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\*\* + +- New 3D model by stability AI -\*\*[Stable Zero123](https://stability.ai/news/stable-zero123-3d-generation?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\*\*\*\*.\*\*Quality 3D object generation from single images. + +- Legal AI startup\*\*[Harvey valued at $700M](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/legal-ai-startup-harvey-valued-at-700-million-in-kleiner-co-led-round?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\*\*in a round co-led by Kleiner. + +- Glean, the startup founded by the Ex-Google search team nears a\*\*[$2B valuation.](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-founded-ex-google-search-team-nears-2-billion-valuation?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)\*\*Check out our coverage on the👀[inside story of Glean.](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/inside-story-building-glean) + +[View more →](https://news.bensbites.co/tags/news/trending?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back) + +**Unclassifieds**- short, sponsored links + +- [NEW Developer Nation survey is live!](https://developereconomics.net/?member_id=bens_bites\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)What's next for devs in 2024? For every survey response we donate to an org of your choice.[Start now!](https://developereconomics.net/?member_id=bens_bites\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back) + +###### **QUICK BITES** + +[Google has made Gemini Pro available in API](https://blog.google/technology/ai/gemini-api-developers-cloud/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back). Gemini Pro is the 2nd-best model from its new family of AI models Gemini. Gemini Pro is currently free for developers and enterprises to[start building](https://ai.google.dev?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)with. + +**What is going on here?** + +Gemini Pro is now accessible via API for app development. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/24008cd9-a0bc-434e-a016-0d8778a01908/image.png?t=1702558450) + +**What does this mean?** + +Here’s what you have access to right now (not gonna bother with what’s coming up). + +- 32K context window for text and vision endpoint for multimodal use. + +- Free of cost until general availability next year. Limited at 60 queries per minute. + +- Features: function calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval and custom knowledge grounding, and chat functionality. + +- SDKs for Python, Kotlin, Node.js, Swift, and Javascript. + +- Can be used via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. + +The pricing for Gemini Pro (after general availability) is almost similar to the comparable model GPT-3.5-turbo. + +[For enterprise users](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/bringing-gemini-to-organizations-everywhere?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back), Google Cloud has also added a ton of things like Duet AI for code, AI Hypercomputer and other hardware upgrades. + +**Why should I care?** + +Google claims it outperforms similarly sized models, offers multilingual support across 180+ countries. But as everyone predicted, giving devs access a week after the launch is hurting Google. I haven’t seen any dev playing with it on X. ([Mistral](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/mistral-ai-openai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months)is where the attention is at) + +But if you want to try the models out, testing it now is the best option. The free options are generous and there’s generally alpha in looking where others aren’t. + +*[Share this story](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/gemini-pro-api-now-live)* + +###### **QUICK BITES** + +[Axel Springer, a big media company, is teaming up with OpenAI](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/axel-springer-and-openai-partner-to-deepen-beneficial-use-of-ai-in-journalism?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back), the creators of ChatGPT. They want to use AI to improve journalism. + +**What is going on here?** + +The companies will integrate recent news content into ChatGPT to provide users with authoritative, up-to-date information. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/1271d230-e02f-4490-841a-f7b752e37a29/image.png?t=1702559349) + +**What does this mean?** + +ChatGPT will now give users summaries and links to some of Axel Springer's articles from places like POLITICO and BUSINESS INSIDER (plus European publications BILD and WELT). So people get access to good information that's normally behind a paywall. + +What's in it for Axel Springer? They get to put their content into ChatGPT to keep readers up-to-date. And they can build other AI stuff using OpenAI's technology. OpenAI also gets to use Axel Springer's articles to train its AI models. + +**Why should I care?** + +Both companies are serious about using AI to help journalism thrive into the future. The goal is to make sure publishers can keep funding solid reporting, even with all the new technology shaking things up. + +In the end, it's good for users and good for journalism. You get AI systems serving up better facts and data. News organizations can keep digging up what matters. It's using tech responsibly to inform people and support public knowledge. Pretty chill way for AI and journalism to work together if you ask me! + +One concern that[I saw on X](https://twitter.com/ednewtonrex/status/1734951425531318594?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-chatgpt-plus-is-back)is that there is a hypocrisy in licensing data from big media companies while claiming that training on huge amounts of other copyrighted work, often from smaller companies and individuals, is fair use. + +*[Share this story](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/open-ai-makes-licensing-deal-alex-springer)* + +### Ben’s Bites Insights + +We have 2 databases that are updated daily which you can access by sharing Ben’s Bites using the link below; + +- **All 10k+ links**we’ve covered, easily filterable (1 referral) + +- **6k+ AI company funding rounds**from Jan 2022, including investors, amounts, stage etc (3 referrals) diff --git a/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-research-alpha.md b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-research-alpha.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebb2627 --- /dev/null +++ b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/daily-digest-research-alpha.md @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +# Daily Digest: Research Alpha + +### PLUS: Super intelligence and new science + +[Sign up](https://www.bensbites.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)|[Advertise](https://sponsor.bensbites.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)|[Ben’s Bites News](https://news.bensbites.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)\ +Daily Digest #307 + +Hello folks, yesterday felt like every hour Open AI and Deepmind were releasing research papers that top one another. Highlighting the major ones from both here and a couple more in the news below: + +###### **PICKS** + +1. [FunSearch](https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/funsearch-making-new-discoveries-in-mathematical-sciences-using-large-language-models/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)- Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs. This paper from Deepmind claims that**LLMs can discover new knowledge.** + +2. [Learning to control strong models](https://openai.com/research/weak-to-strong-generalization?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)with weak supervisors - by OpenAI’s Superalignment team. This paper explores**how humans can supervise AI**that is far more intelligent than humans. + +3. [Stability AI is introducing a membership model](https://stability.ai/membership?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)for the**commercial rights**to their AI models. Stability AI’s CEO Emad Mostaque says that the subscription model is an easy way to sustain the creation of more models while**ensuring maximum access**to their models.🍿[Our Summary](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/stability-ai-starts-20month-subscription-plan)(also below) + +4. [Instagram introduces Backdrop for editing your background.](https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/instagram-introduces-gen-ai-powered-background-editing-tool/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)The new tool was**earlier announced by Meta**while launching its Meta AI. You can**replace the background**in a green-screen-like style with AI-generated backgrounds. It’s only available for US users for now. + +from our sponsor + +For the better part of a decade, Numbers Station has been building AI models with a focus on analytics. Connecting data to humans is complex, and today’s LLMs do not solve the problem—in analytics, hallucinations are just called “mistakes.” + +Find out how we solve these problems in our newest whitepaper,*Vertically integrated AI is the answer to legacy data problems*. + +[Download the whitepaper today!](http://m.numbersstation.ai/vertically-integrated-ai-is-the-answer-to-legacy-data-problems-0-0?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha) + +###### **TOP TOOLS** + +- [GPT Router](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)- Smoothly**manage multiple LLMs**and image models. + +- [Curio](https://twitter.com/CurioBeta/status/1735372169939652785?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)-**AI toys**without screens for kids. + +- [Myko](https://www.myko.ai/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)- Unlock hidden**sales insights**with AI. + +- [OpenChat-3.5-1210](https://twitter.com/alignment_lab/status/1735394531732865042?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)- New**7B model**from Alignment Lab AI. + +- [Azure AI Studio](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-ai-platform-blog/continuing-to-advance-state-of-the-art-model-and-tooling-support/ba-p/4008407?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)- Advanced**model and tooling support**for all your needs. + +[View more →](https://news.bensbites.co/tags/show?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha) + +###### **NEWS** + +- \*\*[Balaji Srinivasan on Polytheistic AI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ROlCeB5FQ\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)\*\*\*\*,\*\*human-AI symbiosis, and prospects for AI control. + +- No Priors pod with\*\*[former Square CEO Alyssa Henry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop\&v=llMFYc4_vik\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)\*\*- Whitespace within e-commerce for AI. + +- **[The AI trust crisis](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)**- Are you training on my data? + +- **[Intel CEO attacks Nvidia on AI](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-ceo-attacks-nvidia-on-ai-the-entire-industry-is-motivated-to-eliminate-the-cuda-market?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)**- 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'. + +- \*\*[Braintrust raises $5M seed round](https://www.braintrustdata.com/blog/seed-round?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)\*\*to build infrastructure for AI products. + +- **[Superalignment Fast Grants](https://openai.com/blog/superalignment-fast-grants?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)**- $10M in grants to support technical research towards the alignment and safety of superhuman AI systems. + +- 6 strategies for getting\*\*[better results from prompt engineering.](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)\*\* + +- **[SMERF from Google](https://smerf-3d.github.io/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)**- Multi-room NeRFs that render in real-time on commodity smartphones and laptops. + +- Practices for\*\*[governing agentic AI systems](https://openai.com/research/practices-for-governing-agentic-ai-systems?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)\*\*from Open AI. + +- **[StemGen by Bytedance](https://huggingface.co/papers/2312.08723?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)**- A music generation model that listens. + +[View more →](https://news.bensbites.co/tags/news/trending?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha) + +###### **QUICK BITES** + +[Stability AI is introducing a membership model](https://stability.ai/membership?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-research-alpha)for the commercial rights to their AI models. Stability AI’s CEO Emad Mostaque says that the subscription model is an easy way to sustain the creation of more models while ensuring maximum people can access their models. + +**What is going on here?** + +Stability AI is launching a membership program to make its AI models more accessible while retaining commercial rights over the core technologies. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/93634238-e5e0-4be8-86a5-e2b025d24ace/image.png?t=1702642095) + +**What does this mean?** + +There are 3 tiers: free for personal use, $20/month for commercial use by individuals and startups, and custom enterprise pricing. + +The professional tier applies to creators, developers and startups with less than $1M in annual revenue, $1M in institutional funding, and 1M monthly active users (all three must apply). If you’re above that, you need to contact for enterprise pricing. + +Currently, the subscription covers three models from Stability — SDXL Turbo (text-to-image), Stable Video Diffusion (text-to-video), and Stable LM Zephyr 3B (text-to-text). More pricing tiers and models are expected to come soon under this new membership. + +**Why should I care?** + +The membership tiers allow anyone from individuals to large companies to benefit from Stability AI's models commercially or personally. This sustains their goal of advancing open AI while retaining control and funding future developments. + +As AI becomes more powerful, keeping it accessible, innovative and responsible matters. Stability AI's plan makes state-of-the-art AI available to users based on their needs and budget. + +*[Share this story](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/stability-ai-starts-20month-subscription-plan)* + +### Ben’s Bites Insights + +We have 2 databases that are updated daily which you can access by sharing Ben’s Bites using the link below; + +- **All 10k+ links**we’ve covered, easily filterable (1 referral) + +- **6k+ AI company funding rounds**from Jan 2022, including investors, amounts, stage etc (3 referrals) diff --git a/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/gemini-pro-api-now-live.md b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/gemini-pro-api-now-live.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19059bb --- /dev/null +++ b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/gemini-pro-api-now-live.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# Gemini Pro API is now live + +[Google has made Gemini Pro available in API](https://blog.google/technology/ai/gemini-api-developers-cloud/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=gemini-pro-api-is-now-live). Gemini Pro is the 2nd-best model from its new family of AI models Gemini. Gemini Pro is currently free for developers and enterprises to [start building](https://ai.google.dev?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=gemini-pro-api-is-now-live) with. + +## What’s going on here? + +Gemini Pro is now accessible via API for app development. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/24008cd9-a0bc-434e-a016-0d8778a01908/image.png?t=1702558450) + +## What does this mean? + +Here’s what you have access to right now (not gonna bother with what’s coming up). + +- 32K context window for text and vision endpoint for multimodal use. + +- Free of cost until general availability next year. Limited at 60 queries per minute. + +- Features: function calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval and custom knowledge grounding, and chat functionality. + +- SDKs for Python, Kotlin, Node.js, Swift, and Javascript. + +- Can be used via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. + +The pricing for Gemini Pro (after general availability) is almost similar to the comparable model GPT-3.5-turbo. + +[For enterprise users](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/bringing-gemini-to-organizations-everywhere?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=gemini-pro-api-is-now-live), Google Cloud has also added a ton of things like Duet AI for code, AI Hypercomputer and other hardware upgrades. + +## Why should I care? + +Google claims it outperforms similarly sized models, offers multilingual support across 180+ countries. But as everyone predicted, giving devs access a week after the launch is hurting Google. I haven’t seen any dev playing with it on X. ([Mistral](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/mistral-ai-openai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months) is where the attention is at) + +But if you want to try the models out, testing it now is the best option. The free options are generous and there’s generally alpha in looking where others aren’t. diff --git a/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/mistral-ai-openai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months.md b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/mistral-ai-openai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6ba6ed --- /dev/null +++ b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/mistral-ai-openai-competitor-rocketed-2bn-12-months.md @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +# How Mistral AI, an OpenAI competitor, rocketed to $2Bn in <12 months + +![Author](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/user/profile_picture/fc858b4d-39e3-4be1-abf4-2b55504e21a2/thumb_uJ4UYake_400x400.jpg) + +[Ben Tossell](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/authors/fc858b4d-39e3-4be1-abf4-2b55504e21a2)\ +December 14, 2023 + +👋Hey, this is Ben with a**🔒**subscriber-only issue**🔒**of Ben’s Bites Pro.A weekly newsletter covering AI trends, ideas, business breakdowns and how companies use AI internally. + +Today I’m diving deep into**Mistral AI**, who are making headlines after recently closing their (huge) Series A round. Launched just 7 months ago, they’re disrupting the LLM market. I want to look at how they’re doing it - and how you can take advantage. + +This post covers: + +- What is Mistral? + +- Who’s behind it? + +- The timeline: What’s happened to date + +- Fundraising + +- Product Overview + +- A peek inside their seed deck👀 + +- Roadmap analysis. Are they achieving what they set out to do? + +- 5 big reasons Mistral’s making waves🌊 + +- How people*actually*use Mistral + +- Opportunities and how you can take advantage + + - What developers think of Mistral + +# What is Mistral? + +A French startup that develops fast, open-source and secure language models. Founded in 2023 by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix. + +They’ve raised over $650M in funding, are valued at $2Bn, are less than a year old and have 22 employees. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/a81e1f71-5ab1-469f-a4fa-db1461c3bbe7/Screenshot_2023-12-12_at_09.37.59.png?t=1702498751) + +monthly search volume for ‘mistral ai’ + +The company is important for a few reasons; + +- It’s*actually*open-source, you know like OpenAI was supposed to be? Or how LlaMA by Meta kinda is but isn’t? + +- It’s developed 2 AI models in less than a year. + +- It’s French. + +The founders are 3 researchers from DeepMind and Meta who aimed to beat GPT 3.5 by year-end. And they did. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/eccd7513-6bc9-4344-9474-c8b8a881275d/Mistral_Experts_Overview.jpeg?t=1702498966) + +They started a new company, Mistral AI, in May 2023 and had the biggest seed round in the EU within 4 weeks. + +# Who’s behind it? + +Mistral’s CEO Arthur Mensch was at Deepmind for a little less than 3 years where he worked on research around the retrieval-based models, sparse mixture of experts and then co-authored the famous Chinchilla paper on the scaling laws of LLMs. + +So he’s legit. + +CTO Timothée Lacroix and Chief Scientist Guillaume Lample were at Meta. They both have nearly a decade of experience in research. And, they had just been part of the team behind Meta’s own LLM, LLaMA in February. + +Also legit. + +# The timeline + +Here’s a quick rundown of what’s happened since then: + +- **June 13 2023**-[Seed Funding](https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/frances-mistral-ai-blows-in-with-a-113m-seed-round-at-a-260m-valuation-to-take-on-openai/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)of $113M. + +- **Sept 27 2023**- Their first model[Mistral 7B](https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)released (via a torrent link onTwitterX). + +- **Dec 8 2023**- Mixtral 8x7B MoE released—their second model, again released via a[torrent link](https://x.com/MistralAI/status/1733150512395038967?s=20\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months). + +- **Dec 11 2023**- Launch of its API and developer platform. Followed by the news of its[Series A ($415M)](https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/mistral-ai-a-paris-based-openai-rival-closed-its-415-million-funding-round/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)plus debt financing ($130M) by NVIDIA and Salesforce. + +Let’s take a quick look at those rounds because they are eyewatering… + +# Fundraising + +### Mistral’s Seed Round: + +The first funding round took place on 13th June 2023. The company raised $113 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. + +Other participants included Redpoint, Index Ventures, Xavier Niel, JCDecaux Holding, Rodolphe Saadé, Motier Ventures, La Famiglia, Headline, Exor Ventures, Sofina, First Minute Capital, and LocalGlobe. Notably, French investment bank Bpifrance and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt were also shareholders. + +**This funding round valued Mistral AI at $260 million**. + +### Mistral’s Series A Round: + +The Series A round was announced on 11th December 2023. In this round, Mistral AI raised $415 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz. + +Other participants included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce, BNP Paribas, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, Conviction, and others. Crunchbase also differentiates Nvidia and Salesforce as debt investors with an additional $130M. + +**This funding round valued the company at approximately $2 billion.** + +# Product Overview + +### Mistral 7b + +A 7B dense transformer, fast-deployed and easily customisable. Small, yet powerful for a variety of use cases. Supports English and code, and an 8k context window. + +### Mixtral 8x7B MoE + +A 7B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with stronger capabilities than Mistral 7B. Uses 12B active parameters out of 45B total. Supports multiple languages, code and 32k context window. + +It comes in 3 versions: + +- tiny + +- small + +- medium + +### Embedding + +State-of-the-art semantic embeddings from text chunks. Powers your RAG application. + +### Generation + +Efficient chat-based API for text generation, using our open and optimised models under the hood. + +You can play with it on;[Together’s Playground](https://api.together.xyz/playground/chat/DiscoResearch/DiscoLM-mixtral-8x7b-v2?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months),[Perplexity](https://labs.perplexity.ai/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months),[Vercel](https://sdk.vercel.ai/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months),[Langchain’s Langsmith](https://smith.langchain.com?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)and[Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/openskyml/mixtral-46.7b-chat?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months). + +To use the official API[check out their docs](https://docs.mistral.ai/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months), plus available on[Together](https://www.together.ai/blog/mixtral?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months),[Anyscale](https://www.anyscale.com/blog/anyscale-endpoints-json-mode-function-calling-new-models-llama-guard-and-mistral-7b-openorca?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months),[Replicate](https://replicate.com/nateraw/mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen/api?tab=nodejs\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months),[Perplexity](https://docs.perplexity.ai/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)and many others. + +# A peek inside their seed deck👀 + +Their seed deck has been floating around the internet. Which you can view[here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gquqRqiT-2Be85p_5w0izGQGgHvVzncQ/view?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months). + +And there are a few things to mention specifically. + +They believe the most value is in the hard-to-make tech e.g. the models themselves. Trained on powerful machines, trillions of words, high-quality sources—which is one barrier to entry. + +The other barrier? A talented (and capable) team. + +There were a few others on the team at the time of the first raise: + +- [Jean-Charles Samuelian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcsamuelian/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)- CEO of[Alan](https://alan.com/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)(looks like he is a Co-Founding advisor & Board Member at Mistral) + +- [Charles Gorintin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-gorintin/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)- CTO of[Alan](https://alan.com/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)(also Co-Founding Advisor at Mistral) + +- [Cédric O](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-o/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)- Former French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs (also Co-Founding Advisor at Mistral) + +Continuing through their deck… + +“All major actors are US-based”. + +The Mistral team wanted to cement itself as the European leader. + +**Closed-source vs open-source**. The big debate. + +Mistral believes (as do many others, myself included) that there are several concerns with closed AI approaches; businesses have to send sensitive data to it, only exposing the outputs doesn’t help connect with other components (retrieval, structure inputs etc) and the data used to train the models are secret (so we assume it can do some things it perhaps hasn’t been trained on). + +Now the bold stuff. + +“Mistral will offer the best technology in 4 years”. + +How? + +- They’ll take a more open approach to model development. + +- Tighter integration with customers’ workflows. + +- Increase focus on data sources and control. + +- Propose unmatched guarantees on security and privacy. + +There’s a lot more detail in their[deck](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gquqRqiT-2Be85p_5w0izGQGgHvVzncQ/view?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=how-mistral-ai-an-openai-competitor-rocketed-to-2bn-in-12-months)on the above 4 points. + +As far as business focus goes… + +“On the business side, we will provide the most valuable technology brick to the emerging AI-as-a-service industry that will revolutionise business workflows with generative AI. We will co-build integrated solutions with European integrators and industry clients, and get extremely valuable feedback from this to become the main tool for all companies wanting to leverage AI in Europe.” + +# Roadmap analysis + +Let’s look at their roadmap (remember this was from pre-June) and see what they planned on doing compared to what has happened. + +## Subscribe to Ben's Bites Pro to read the rest. + +Become a paying subscriber of Ben's Bites Pro to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. + +[Upgrade](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/upgrade) + +Already a paying subscriber? 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b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/open-ai-makes-licensing-deal-alex-springer.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Open AI makes licensing deal with Alex Springer + +[Axel Springer, a big media company, is teaming up with OpenAI](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/axel-springer-and-openai-partner-to-deepen-beneficial-use-of-ai-in-journalism?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=open-ai-makes-licensing-deal-with-alex-springer), the creators of ChatGPT. They want to use AI to improve journalism. + +## What’s going on here? + +The companies will integrate recent news content into ChatGPT to provide users with authoritative, up-to-date information. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/1271d230-e02f-4490-841a-f7b752e37a29/image.png?t=1702559349) + +## What does this mean? + +ChatGPT will now give users summaries and links to some of Axel Springer's articles from places like POLITICO and BUSINESS INSIDER (plus European publications BILD and WELT). So people get access to good information that's normally behind a paywall. + +What's in it for Axel Springer? They get to put their content into ChatGPT to keep readers up-to-date. And they can build other AI stuff using OpenAI's technology. OpenAI also gets to use Axel Springer's articles to train its AI models. + +## Why should I care? + +Both companies are serious about using AI to help journalism thrive into the future. The goal is to make sure publishers can keep funding solid reporting, even with all the new technology shaking things up. + +In the end, it's good for users and good for journalism. You get AI systems serving up better facts and data. News organizations can keep digging up what matters. It's using tech responsibly to inform people and support public knowledge. Pretty chill way for AI and journalism to work together if you ask me! + +One concern that [I saw on X](https://twitter.com/ednewtonrex/status/1734951425531318594?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=open-ai-makes-licensing-deal-with-alex-springer) is that there is a hypocrisy in licensing data from big media companies while claiming that training on huge amounts of other copyrighted work, often from smaller companies and individuals, is fair use. diff --git a/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/stability-ai-starts-20month-subscription-plan.md b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/stability-ai-starts-20month-subscription-plan.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a00c2bf --- /dev/null +++ b/fixtures/bensbites.beehiiv.com/stability-ai-starts-20month-subscription-plan.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Stability AI starts a $20/month subscription plan. + +[Stability AI is introducing a membership model](https://stability.ai/membership?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=stability-ai-starts-a-20-month-subscription-plan) for the commercial rights to their AI models. Stability AI’s CEO Emad Mostaque says that the subscription model is an easy way to sustain the creation of more models while ensuring maximum people can access their models. + +## What’s going on here? + +Stability AI is launching a membership program to make its AI models more accessible while retaining commercial rights over the core technologies. + +![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/93634238-e5e0-4be8-86a5-e2b025d24ace/image.png?t=1702642095) + +## What does this mean? + +There are 3 tiers: free for personal use, $20/month for commercial use by individuals and startups, and custom enterprise pricing. + +The professional tier applies to creators, developers and startups with less than $1M in annual revenue, $1M in institutional funding, and 1M monthly active users (all three must apply). If you’re above that, you need to contact for enterprise pricing. + +Currently, the subscription covers three models from Stability — SDXL Turbo (text-to-image), Stable Video Diffusion (text-to-video), and Stable LM Zephyr 3B (text-to-text). More pricing tiers and models are expected to come soon under this new membership. + +## Why should I care? + +The membership tiers allow anyone from individuals to large companies to benefit from Stability AI's models commercially or personally. This sustains their goal of advancing open AI while retaining control and funding future developments. + +As AI becomes more powerful, keeping it accessible, innovative and responsible matters. Stability AI's plan makes state-of-the-art AI available to users based on their needs and budget.