Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to accusations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and
How do you measure whether an AI is really good at predicting the future? The CTO of startup Obside recently emailed me with a fascinating real-world benchmark. Instead of giving the AI models another standardized test, Obside had ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Kimi bet on World Cup matches using live odds from
Following Trump’s directive that led Anthropic to pull the plug on its latest AI models and growing calls for sovereign technology that reduces dependence on the US, Mistral AI has been caught in a whirlwind of attention. But the French AI darling is often misunderstood, and the fact that it develops large language models (LLMs)
