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Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure

Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence startup, announced Wednesday a sweeping expansion into AI infrastructure that positions the company as Europe’s answer to American cloud computing giants, while simultaneously unveiling new reasoning models that rival OpenAI’s most advanced systems.The Paris-based company revealed Mistral Compute, a comprehensive AI infrastructure platform built…
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OpenAI hits 3M business users and launches workplace tools to take on Microsoft

OpenAI announced Wednesday that its business user base has surged 50% since February, reaching 3 million paying enterprise customers as the artificial intelligence company unveiled an expansive suite of new workplace tools designed to compete directly with Microsoft’s enterprise AI offerings. The milestone, revealed alongside the launch of several new business-focused features, underscores…
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Snowflake’s Openflow tackles AI’s toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale

For anyone in AI, it’s no big news that “data is the real prize.” If you have strong data foundations, your models and the applications powered by them will be right on the money. But that’s where it gets messy. Building that foundation is no piece of cake, especially when there are dozens of data sources, each hosting valuable information. You need to build and maintain integration…
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OpenAI’s Sora is now available for FREE to all users through Microsoft Bing Video Creator on mobile

OpenAI‘s Sora was one of the most hyped releases of the AI era, launching in December 2024, nearly 10 months after it was first previewed to awe-struck reactions due to its — at the time, at least — unprecedented level of realism, camera dynamism, and prompt adherence and 60-second long generation clips. But now OpenAI and its ally/investor/frenemy Microsoft are seeking to bring Sora to far…
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