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Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters

French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings from Google and OpenAI, setting the stage for increased competition in a market dominated by U.S. tech giants. The model, called Mistral Small 3.1, processes both text and images with just 24 billion parameters—a fraction of the size of leading proprietary…
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Launching your first AI project with a grain of RICE: Weighing reach, impact, confidence and effort to create your roadmap

Businesses know they can’t ignore AI, but when it comes to building with it, the real question isn’t, What can AI do — it’s, What can it do reliably? And more importantly: Where do you start? This article introduces a framework to help businesses prioritize AI opportunities. Inspired by project management frameworks like the RICE scoring model for prioritization, it balances business…
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Netflix Games loses its vice-president of generative AI

Five months after Netflix Games announced that generative AI in its game development studios would be a major focus for them, driven by the promotion of Mike Verdu to the vice president in charge of that technology, Verdu has apparently left Netflix Games (confirmed to…
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ServiceNow expands AI offerings with pre-built agents, targeting broader enterprise adoption

ServiceNow believes that more areas within an enterprise can benefit from agents, and as it upgrades its agent platform and makes acquisitions, the company plans on doubling down on agents even more. ServiceNow announced the acquisition of Moveworks on Tuesday along with new agent capabilities. It also made its orchestration platform generally available and announced plans to integrate agentic…
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OpenAI Launches Responses API & Agents SDK for Developers

OpenAI is rolling out a new suite of APIs and tools designed to help developers and enterprises build AI-powered agents more efficiently. These are delivered atop some of the very same technology powering its own first-party AI agents Deep Research (which scours the internet independently to develop richly researched, well organized and cited reports) and Operator (its tool for controlling a web…
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