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šŸ¤– Mistral AI’s New Cost-Efficient AI Model for Businesses

PLUS: OpenAI Appoints New CEO of Applications

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In today’s Daily Report:

  • āš™ļøMistral AI’s New Cost-Efficient AI Model for Businesses

  • šŸ›’OpenAI Appoints New CEO of Applications

  • šŸ› Trending Tools

  • 🄪Brief Bites

  • šŸ’°Funding Frontlines

  • šŸ’¼Who’s Hiring?

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MISTRAL AI

āš™ļøMistral AI’s New Cost-Efficient AI Model for Businesses

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French AI Startup Mistral AI just unveiled ā€œMistral Medium 3 (MM3),ā€ a new cost-efficient AI model designed to help businesses streamline employee workflows.

Key Details:
  • MM3 features a context window of 32,000 tokens. Tokens are units of text that represent words, characters, and punctuation. A context window is the number of tokens an AI model can process when generating an output.

  • It uses Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE), which deploys multiple smaller AI models that act as ā€œmini-expertsā€ to tackle different parts of a complex task at the same time.

  • Instead of consulting every ā€œmini-expertā€ for every complex task, SMoE selects certain ā€œmini-expertsā€ best suited for certain complex tasks. This technique reduces computational load, leading to faster processing times at a cheaper cost.

Why It’s Important:
  • MM3 matches or surpasses Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o (ā€œoā€ for ā€œomniā€) across a variety of benchmarks despite operating at 8x lower costs.

  • It achieves 15% higher accuracy in complex logical reasoning, delivers 25% better results when generating code, and boasts 89% accuracy on factual recall.

OPENAI

šŸ›’OpenAI Appoints New CEO of Applications

OpenAI recently added a GitHub Connector to Deep Research, launched OpenAI for Countries, and appointed a new CEO of Applications.

Key Details:
  1. GitHub Connector: You can now connect GitHub repositories (i.e., a ā€œrepoā€ stores and manages source code) to Deep Research within ChatGPT, enabling an AI Agent to analyze your codebases.

  2. OpenAI for Countries: A new initiative under The Stargate Project to expand in-country data center capacity for other nations and provide customized versions of ChatGPT to citizens worldwide.

  3. New CEO of Applications: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will join OpenAI to oversee product development and financial operations, reporting directly to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Why It’s Important:
  • Appointing a new CEO of Applications signals OpenAI’s shift toward consumer products with a focus on design, rollout, and monetization strategies.

  • The GitHub Connector lets anyone quickly understand a codebase’s structure and overall purpose. It also helps developers identify refactoring opportunities (i.e., restructuring existing code without altering functionality) to reduce performance bottlenecks within codebases.

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🄪BRIEF BITES

Meta hired former Google DeepMind Director Robert Fergus to lead the Fundamental AI Research Lab (FAIR).

LinkedIn added a new AI-powered job search feature that enables job seekers to describe their dream role in their own words.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said employees are banned from using DeepSeek because of concerns about Chinese propaganda and data security threats.

Ace Studio developed ā€œACE-Step-v1-3.5B,ā€ an open-source music generator that composes up to 4 minutes of music in just 20 seconds with lyrics, melody, and style.

šŸ’°FUNDING FRONTLINES

  • EdgeRunner AI raises a $12M Series A to develop air-gapped, on-device AI for the ā€œWarfighter.ā€

  • Doppel secures a $35M Series B for an AI-based defense framework to stop social engineering at scale.

  • Ex-Synapse CEO Sankaet Pathak is reportedly trying to raise $100M after his previous startup just filed for bankruptcy.

šŸ’¼WHO’S HIRING?

  • DevRev (Palo Alto, CA): Applied AI Intern, Knowledge Ops, Fall 2025

  • NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Hardware Validation Engineer, Entry-Level

  • Anthropic (San Francisco, CA): Product Support Manager, Mid-Level

  • OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): Launch Systems Architect, Senior-Level

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