Mistral AI Launches Small 3: Open-Source Alternative to GPT-4o Mini
On Thursday, French lab Mistral AI launched Small 3, which the company calls “the most efficient model of its category” and says is optimized for latency. Mistral says Small 3 can compete with Llama 3.3 70B and Qwen 32B, among other large models, and it’s “an excellent open replacement for opaque proprietary models like GPT4o-mini.” Like Mistral’s […]
Free Perplexity Pro for Government Employees with .gov Emails
If you’re a government employee with a .gov email address, you can get a free year’s use of a popular AI tool. Perplexity is offering a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro to anyone with an official email address ending in .gov. This applies to not only federal employees, but state, county, and other local government workers. […]
Microsoft and Partners Invest $72M to Launch AI Hub in NJ
At the end of 2023, the state of New Jersey and Princeton University announced plans to establish an AI Hub in collaboration with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) to drive regional job growth and advance AI developments. Now, Microsoft and Coreweave are joining in on the venture. On Friday, Governor Phil Murphy and Princeton University […]
Microsoft Unveils Surface Laptop 7 & Surface Pro 11 with Intel Chips
Microsoft showed off the latest Surface for Business Copilot+ PCs, Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11. Both will be on store shelves Feb. 18. Just a day earlier, the company announced all users of the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant will be able to toggle on OpenAI’s o1 model for slowe r, more “thoughtful” responses. […]