Today’s Story

• Mistral, a French AI model developer, valued at $6 billion and backed by companies like Microsoft, has launched its first generative AI model for cod named Codestral.

• Codestral supports over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java, and C++, assisting developers by completing coding functions, writing tests, filling in partial code, and most impressively answering codebase-related questions in plain English.

• Although Mistral considers Codestral to be "open" its license restricts commercial use of the model potentially due to partial training on copyrighted content.

• The model comprises 22 billion parameters, requiring a high-performance PC to run, and, while competitive in benchmarks, offers only incremental performance improvements so far.

• More broadly Generative AI tools are increasingly being adopted by developers, with 44% currently employing them and 26% planning to use them soon.

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Research

• The “2024 Priorities of Business Leaders” survey, conducted by Paychex, offers a fascinating glimpse into the current state of AI adoption and its projected growth in the near future.

• The survey, polled 600 business and HR leaders from U.S.-based companies with between 5 to 500 employees. It reveals that at a baseline 85% of organizations are already leveraging AI technologies.

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AI Creations

Each Day we Highlight Cool Gen AI Art and Projects!

• Generating the Past: Image Generation gives people the ability to recreate the past in almost lifelike detail.

• Recently leading image generation software was used to recreate the 7 wonders of the world, in detail