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šŸ¤– OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT Runs for Mayor in Wyoming?!

PLUS: Microsoft Releases Phi-3.5 Series of AI Models, Build Your Own Personalized AI Agent

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In todayā€™s AI Report:

  • šŸ“ŠMicrosoft Releases Phi-3.5 Series of AI Models

  • šŸ›OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT Runs for Mayor in Wyoming?!

  • šŸ‘·ā€ā™‚ļøBuild Your Own Personalized AI Agent

  • šŸ› 5 Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Venture Capital Updates

  • šŸ’¼Whoā€™s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

MICROSOFT

šŸ“ŠMicrosoft Releases Phi-3.5 Series of AI Models

Image Source: Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media/ā€œMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella LeWeb Day 1ā€

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) thatā€™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 modelā€™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 Itā€™s Important:
  • Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct scores better than Metaā€™s Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral AIā€™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 Instructā€™s compact size allows researchers to isolate variables and reverse engineer Neural Networks (NNs) to recognize patterns in data processing and minimize hallucinations.

OPENAI

šŸ›OpenAIā€™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 OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT. OpenAI describes GPTs as ā€œa new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be helpful in their daily life.ā€

  • 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 Itā€™s Important:
  • Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray stated: ā€œWyoming state law is very clear that an AI bot isnā€™t eligible to be a candidate for election.ā€

  • OpenAI has shut down Millerā€™s GPTs account twice, citing its policies against using ChatGPT for campaigning.

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AI TIPS

šŸ‘·ā€ā™‚ļøBuild Your Own Personalized AI Agent

Mistral AI launched a new ā€œAgentsā€ feature that lets anyone build personalized AI agents for specific tasks.

Hereā€™s How You Can Access It:
  1. Navigate to Mistral AIā€™s website here.

  2. Click on ā€œBuild on La Plateforme.ā€

  3. Create an account using your Google Chrome profile, Microsoft Account, or Email Address.

  4. Select ā€œCreate an Agentā€ and choose your preferred ā€œAI Model.ā€

  5. Add ā€œInstructionsā€ to guide your ā€œAgentsā€ responses.

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šŸ’°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.

šŸ’¼WHOā€™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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