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According to information received on 21 November, according to The Guardian, French prosecutors are investigating allegations made by government ministers and human rights organizations, namely, that Elon Mask's artificial smart chat robot Grok made statements denying the Holocaust. The Office of the Public Prosecutor in Paris indicated on Wednesday night, that the scope of the current investigation of Mask-based social media platform X was being expanded to include “the Holocaust denial” that remained online for three days. It was reported that this Monday, a convicted French Holocaust Negativeist and neo-Nazi activist..

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- French AI lab Mistral announced Tuesday that it is entering the field of inferential AI models. On June 10, Mistral officially launched its first family of inferential models, Magistral, which solves problems in a step-by-step process designed to improve consistency and reliability in disciplines such as math and physics. This series of models is designed to improve consistency and reliability in disciplines such as mathematics and physics through step-by-step problem solving, similar to other inference models such as OpenAI's o3 model and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. The Magistral series consists of two versions: Magist...

May 11 (Bloomberg) - Although armed conflicts have become less frequent over time, global military spending has skyrocketed year after year to figures unprecedented in the history of warfare, according to futurism. Much of this spending has been driven by the rise of the military tech industry, with venture capital firms pouring $100 billion into military tech startups in the U.S. alone between 2021 and 2023 in the hopes of securing lucrative contracts for everything from high-performance anti-drone systems to deadly drone swarms. With so many startups and defense groups...

France's leading publishers and authors' associations have filed a lawsuit against Meta, accusing it of unauthorized mass use of copyrighted content to train its AI models. The French National Publishing Union (SNE), the National Union of Authors and Composers (SNAC), and the Société des Grands Littéraires pour la Défense des Autres (SGDL) have filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging copyright infringement and economic "parasitism," the three associations said in a press release on Wednesday. The three associations argued that as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are social...

February 10 news, according to Reuters reports, French President Macron said the country will be opened on Monday (today) on the Paris Artificial Intelligence Summit announced a total of about 109 billion euros (note: the current about 822.958 billion yuan) of private investment to promote the development of artificial intelligence industry. Among them, Canadian investment firm Brookfield plans to invest 20 billion euros (currently about 151.002 billion yuan) in French AI projects, and the UAE could invest as much as 50 billion euros (currently about 3,775 ....) over the next few years.

Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Lucie, an open-source French-language artificial intelligence chatbot backed by the French government, was quickly taken down two days after its launch for giving ridiculous answers to simple math questions and even suggesting that users consume "cow eggs. Lucie is still in the "early stages of an academic research project," according to a statement released Saturday by the Linagora group, a member of the consortium that developed the model. The group acknowledged that Lucie's release was "rushed" and said it should have been clearer to users about the model's limitations at this stage. The statement said...

Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Arthur Mensch, founder and chief executive officer of French AI startup Mistral AI, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday that the company is not for sale and is planning to go through an IPO. Arthur Mensch also said in the interview that the company is opening an office in Singapore to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, and is continuing to grow its business in Europe and the United States. continuing to grow its business in Europe and the United States. Like its larger U.S. rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, the company was founded in 202...

TechCrunch reported yesterday (September 11) that French AI startup Mistral has released Pixtral 12B, the company's first multimodal AI big speech model capable of processing images and text simultaneously. The Pixtral 12B model has 12 billion parameters, or about 24GB in size, and the parameters roughly correspond to the model's problem-solving ability, with models with more parameters generally performing better than those with fewer parameters. The Pixtral 12B model is based on the text model Nemo 12B...

Recently, French AI startup Mistral released a new coding model - Codestral Mamba. This model is not only fast, but also can process longer codes, helping programmers and developers improve their work efficiency. Mistral has accumulated a lot of fame in the field of open source AI, and the Codestral Mamba launched this time is even more eye-catching. Codestral Mamba is based on a new architecture called "Mamba", which is more efficient than the traditional transformer architecture. Its design allows the model to process...

According to Bloomberg, French startup Dust recently announced the completion of a $16 million financing led by Sequoia Capital, a well-known venture capital firm. Dust focuses on customizing artificial intelligence robots for enterprises and is one of the emerging companies that helps enterprises use large language models more conveniently. It is reported that Dust's main business is to develop software to connect artificial intelligence models from companies such as OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Anthropic and Mistral AI with applications such as Slack. This makes it easier for corporate customers to use advanced AI technology...

French AI startup Poolside.ai plans to raise at least $400 million in this round of financing and set its valuation at $2 billion. The lead investors in this round include Bain Capital Ventures and DSTPoolside.ai is a Paris-based generative AI company focused on accelerating software development. Source: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney Last August, the company had successfully completed a large-scale seed round of financing, raising $126 million in funds…

Mistral, a French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, recently released its first generative AI model for coding, Codestral. The model is designed to help developers write and interact with code, supporting more than 80 programming languages including Python, Java, C++ and JavaScript. Mistral said in its blog post that Codestral can complete coding functions, write tests, fill in parts of the code, and answer questions about the code base in English. Although Mis…

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal today, French startup Mistral AI is about to reach an agreement to raise funds at a valuation of $6 billion (currently about 43.38 billion yuan), which is almost three times the valuation six months ago. In the financing last December, Mistral was valued at $2.15 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, existing backers General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners are expected to be the new…