Wed. 09/11 – Mistral Goes Multimodel; And An AI Model Mystery

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Mistral goes multimodal for the first time. Meta admits to scraping the data of every adult Australian. The details on the new PS5 Pro. Wouldn’t it be wild if, through stablecoins, crypto BECOMES the banking system instead of replacing it. And a weird mystery in AI land. Sponsors: Promevo.com/techmeme Links: Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model (TechCrunch) Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option (ABC News) The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive (The Verge) Exclusive Hands-On: I Played Sony's All-New PS5 Pro (CNET) Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 (Reuters) Payments in Singapore With Stablecoins Rise to Almost $1 Billion (Bloomberg) Reflection 70B model maker breaks silence amid fraud accusations (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, September 11th,
0:07.1	2024. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Mistral goes multimodal for the first time.
0:11.2	Meta admits to scraping the data of every single adult
0:14.7	Australian. The details on the new PS5 Pro wouldn't it be wild if through
0:20.7	Stablecoins crypto becomes the banking system instead of replacing it and a weird mystery in AI land.
0:27.2	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:29.2	French AI startup Mistral has released its first multimodal model.
0:37.0	Pystrel 12B available on GitHub and Hugging Face and via an API soon.
0:43.0	Coating Tech Crunch.
0:44.5	Called Pixtrel 12B, the 12 billion parameter model is roughly 24 gigabytes in size.
0:49.4	Parameters roughly correspond to a model's problem solvingsolving skills and models with more parameters
0:53.6	generally perform better than those with fewer parameters.
0:56.6	Built on one of Mistral's text models, Nemo12B, the new model, can answer questions about
1:02.0	an arbitrary number of images of an arbitrary size given
1:05.6	either URLs or images encoded using base 64, the binary to text encoding scheme.
1:12.0	Similar to other multimodal models such as
1:14.0	Anthropic's Claude family and Open AIs GPT 4-O,
1:16.8	Pyxtral 12B should, at least in theory, be able to perform tasks like
1:21.0	captioning images and counting the number of objects in a photo.
1:24.4	Available via a torrent link on GitHub and AI and machine learning development platform
1:28.8	hugging face.
1:29.8	Pystrel 12B can be downloaded, fine tuned, and used presumably under Mistral's standard
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