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WhatsApp appears to be experimenting with a fresh design that puts AI in the messaging experience for the Android beta version, AI gets its own dedicated tab with “Popular AI characters” to chat with as well as bots organized by topic - like a quirky, robot-filled dinner party. Users can also access AI-generated stickers, images, and a Meta AI-powered search engine, all integrated into the app. Stay tuned for the update to your WhatsApp soon.
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🌒 Sky-T1 affordable AI
🐝 The Buzz: Researchers at UC Berkeley unveiled Sky-T1, an open-source AI model adept at reasoning, which can be fine-tuned for under $450, a stark contrast to past models priced in the millions. Despite being cost-effective, it holds up against some of OpenAI's offerings yet falls short in a few areas.
NovaSky's Sky-T1-32B was fine-tuned with a lean budget of under $450.
Training required 19 hours on eight Nvidia H100 GPUs
Sky-T1 outperformed an early version of OpenAI's o1 model on math and coding tests but lagged in scientific queries.
Sky-T1 is one of the first truly open-source AI reasoning models, offering a replicable framework.
💡 Takeaway: The democratization of AI research is in full swing, making advanced AI models like Sky-T1 accessible for innovative projects without the hefty price tags. This trend towards affordability bridges the gap between big tech and independent researchers, empowering more players to contribute to the field meaningfully.
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🧑💻 Mistral AI upgrades Codestral for faster coding
🐝 The Buzz: Mistral AI's Codestral 25.01 is stepping up the game in code generation, offering a major upgrade in speed and efficiency for developers. This new version takes coding up a notch with faster code completion and improved precision.
Codestral 25.01 scores 86.6% on the HumanEval test, outperforming previous versions and competitors.
It supports over 80 programming languages
It's optimized for low-latency, high-frequency tasks, supporting code correction, test generation, and fill-in-the-middle functions.
Developers can access it via Mistral's IDE plugin partners, la Plateforme, Google Vertex AI, and soon on Amazon Bedrock.
💡 Takeaway: For anyone knee-deep in code, having a reliable and fast coding companion like Codestral 25.01 is crucial. Whether you’re working solo or in a large enterprise, this upgrade is a welcome advancement, simplifying the coding process and empowering developers to do more, quicker.
💻️ How to create an AI agent for Content Writing using Mistral
Having AI Agents write content for you is life changing. Here is how you can create an SEO optimized content writer AI agent in Mistral.
Go to Mistral and sign up or in
Click Create a new Agent in the big orange box
Give the Agent a name like “Content Writer”
Pick your model - Pixtral Large is the biggest and newest
Provide detailed instructions for your agent like
You are an experienced content writer for your website. You’re writing for an audience of *your audience* who want to *their pain point*. With your content, you’re selling them *your product/service*. Your goal is to create SEO-optimized content that ranks on Google on the specific query we are giving you.Add demonstration examples of your documents if available
Click “Deploy to Le Chat”
Now click on the Le Chat tab at the top
Access your AI agent by typing @ in the Chat window. Select your Agent and prompt for an article.
🐝 AI buzz bits
Syntilay - the ugliest AI croc style shoe made
👟 Meet the Syntilay: the world's first entirely AI-generated and 3D-printed shoe, boasting a custom fit and quirky design, set to disrupt the footwear market at $149.99.
🌍 The World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025 anticipates that by 2030, 22% of jobs will be disrupted, but the transition could create a net gain of 78 million jobs; addressing a looming skills gap is essential for future workforce success.
🧠 Elon Musk warns that AI has run out of human-generated data for training, now relying on potentially unreliable synthetic data that could affect model accuracy and reliability.
🖼️ Adobe's new Firefly Bulk Create tool allows users to effortlessly edit and enhance up to 10,000 images with a single click, automating tasks like background removal and resizing for streamlined creative workflows.
🖼️ Generative Art
prompt: A rectangular metal sign for cafe's take - away coffee service, exuding vintage charm with bold relief. The background, an aged beige, has a parchment - like, multi - textured emboss, hinting at its long - standing history. Centered, "Take - Away Coffee" is in bold, ornate serif fonts, deeply carved. The letters, dark brown with visible chisel marks, have gold - leaf embossed edges that shimmer with irregular bumps. To the right, a creamy - white take - away cup steals the show. Its surface has a gently undulating emboss, and the deep - blue logo stands out with raised edges. The light - gray lid has an embossed hole for the vibrant red, texturally - detailed straw.
AI productivity
🔥 Tools to take your workflow to the next level.
Klap - Effortlessly transform long videos into engaging viral shorts for social media with one-click automation.
913.ai - AI-driven platform that automates document processing, extraction, and generation for enhanced operational efficiency.
Text Blaze - A powerful text expansion tool that automates repetitive typing, streamlining workflows across any web application.
X-doc AI - Delivering precise technical document translations in 108+ languages with enterprise-level security and AI-enhanced accuracy.
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