AI & Robotics

Mistral AI, the six-month-old Paris-based startup that made headlines with its unique Word Art logo and a record-setting $118 million seed round — reportedly the largest seed in the history of Europe — today released its first large language AI model, Mistral 7B. The 7.3 billion parameter model outperforms bigger offerings, including Meta’s Llama 2 13B (one of the smaller of Meta’s newer…

Data streaming major Confluent today announced a new “Data Streaming for AI” initiative to provide native integrations with leading players in the AI and vector database space, allowing its customers to tap the freshest contextual data from across their businesses. Such realtime data is vital for use cases where speed is of the essence in business processes, such as fraud detection. The first…

The issue of AI hallucinations is a big challenge when it comes to enterprise AI adoption. After all, no organization wants to generate inaccurate results from generative AI efforts. Among the many organizations looking to solve the problem of AI hallucination is Vectara, which first emerged from stealth in October 2022, led by one of the co-founders of Big Data vendor Cloudera. In May, the…