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Paris-based Mistral releases Large 3, a major new open-source AI model

Mistral AI is rolling out a new family of open, multilingual, and multimodal models called Mistral 3. The lineup ranges from compact options for edge deployments to a large Mixture-of-Experts model.
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Copyright pressure mounts as OpenAI battles over newspapers and pirate libraries

Nine US regional newspapers have slapped OpenAI and Microsoft with a massive copyright lawsuit, seeking damages that could top $10 billion. At the same time, a federal court has ordered OpenAI to hand ...
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Runway’s Gen-4.5 edges past Google and OpenAI in text-to-video benchmark

Runway introduces Gen-4.5, its latest video generation model. The company says the new release outperforms competing systems on select benchmarks, but it still struggles with core logic errors that ...
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Black Forest Labs secures $300 million to accelerate its vision for advanced image models

Black Forest Labs has raised USD 300 million in a new Series B round, bringing its valuation to USD 3.25 billion. Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP) led the round, with existing investors like ...
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Pinokio 5.0 turns local machines into personal AI clouds

Pinokio 5.0 wants to make running open-source AI models on your own hardware as easy as using a web app. Developer "cocktail peanut" positions the free tool as a local alternative to cloud platforms ...