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In today’s AI Report:
📊Microsoft Releases Phi-3.5 Series of AI Models
🏛OpenAI’s ChatGPT Runs for Mayor in Wyoming?!
👷♂️Build Your Own Personalized AI Agent
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
MICROSOFT
📊Microsoft Releases Phi-3.5 Series of AI Models
Image Source: Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media/“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella LeWeb Day 1”
Microsoft released the Phi-3.5 series of AI models, which includes three variants: Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct, Phi-3.5 MoE, and Phi-3.5 Vision.
Key Details:
Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct: a Small Language Model (SLM) that’s more computationally efficient and requires less memory. It supports 3.8B parameters with a 128K context window.
Phi-3.5 MoE: a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture with several smaller AI models that are mini-experts on a specific task. It features 42B parameters with a 128K context window.
Phi-3.5 Vision: a multimodal AI model that can process multiple data types, such as text and images.
The bigger an AI model’s context window, the more information it can process in a given prompt.
In general, more parameters make AI models more powerful, efficient, and faster.
Why It’s Important:
Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct scores better than Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral AI’s Mistral 7B on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark, offering state-of-the-art reasoning, world knowledge, and coding.
Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct’s compact size allows researchers to isolate variables and reverse engineer Neural Networks (NNs) to recognize patterns in data processing and minimize hallucinations.
OPENAI
🏛OpenAI’s ChatGPT Runs for Mayor in Wyoming?!
Image Source: Canva AI Image Generator
Wyoming mayoral candidate Victor Miller vowed to let his GPT, called Virtual Integrated Citizen (VIT), help run the local government if elected.
Key Details:
GPTs are a custom version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. OpenAI describes GPTs as “a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be helpful in their daily life.”
Miller created VIC by feeding it local ordinances, amendments, and reports to make municipal decisions.
Miller officially filed for him and VIC to run for mayor of Wyoming. He proposes that VIC will provide data-driven insights while Miller ensures legal execution.
Why It’s Important:
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray stated: “Wyoming state law is very clear that an AI bot isn’t eligible to be a candidate for election.”
OpenAI has shut down Miller’s GPTs account twice, citing its policies against using ChatGPT for campaigning.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
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AI TIPS
👷♂️Build Your Own Personalized AI Agent
Mistral AI launched a new “Agents” feature that lets anyone build personalized AI agents for specific tasks.
Here’s How You Can Access It:
Navigate to Mistral AI’s website here.
Click on “Build on La Plateforme.”
Create an account using your Google Chrome profile, Microsoft Account, or Email Address.
Select “Create an Agent” and choose your preferred “AI Model.”
Add “Instructions” to guide your “Agents” responses.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
⚙️Zed is a next-generation code editor.
📑Micro1 hires deeply vetted engineers fast.
🚜AgentQL offers painless data extraction and web automation.
🦠CGA creates custom intelligence for your products or services.
🗣SleekFlow automates conversations to generate leads, convert sales, and engage customers.
🔮Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.
💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
DefconAI closes a $44M Seed Round to solve military logistics with AI.
Trunk Tools secures a $20M Series A to organize construction documents.
SleekFlow snaps up a $7M Seed Fund to build a conversational AI suite for Asian markets.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Figma (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025
Verkada (San Mateo, CA): Backend Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025
Point72 (New York City, NY): Data Engineer Intern, Proprietary Research, Summer 2025
NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Physical Design Methodology Engineer, New College Grad 2025
Google (San Francisco, CA): Business Account Executive, Customer Solutions, Early Career
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