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Mistral AI Extends Its Portfolio: Mistral enhances AI landscape in Europe with Microsoft partnership and new language models.
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Mistral AI Extends Its Portfolio: Mistral enhances AI landscape in Europe with Microsoft partnership and new language models.

European AI champion Mistral AI unveiled new large language models and formed an alliance with Microsoft. 
Making Government Multilingual: This app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens
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Making Government Multilingual: This app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens

An app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens, who speak a wide variety of languages. Jugalbandi helps Indians learn about government services, which typically are described online in English and Hindi, in their native tongues.
AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.
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AI Startups Face Compute Shortage: Generative AI demand is overwhelming cloud servers.

Chatbot-fueled FOMO is overwhelming cloud-computing services. Cloud providers are struggling to meet sharply rising demand by a crowd of AI startups eager to cash in on generative AI, The Information reported. The surge in demand caught Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and others off guard.
Microsoft logo (left) and ChatGPT logo (right) reflecting the colors of the Microsoft logo
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AI Powers Strengthen Ties: Microsoft boosts its investment in OpenAI.

Microsoft deepened its high-stakes relationship with OpenAI. The tech giant confirmed rumors that it is boosting its investment in the research lab that created the ChatGPT large language model and other AI innovations.
A series of graphs show the carbon emissions associated with training AI models.
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Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions

You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.
Responsible AI pyramid
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Ethical AI 2.0: Microsoft Revises its Responsible AI Standards

Microsoft tightened the reins on both AI developers and customers.What’s new: The tech titan revised its Responsible AI Standard and restricted access to some AI capabilities accordingly.
Animation showing GPT-3 in full action
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GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users

Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.
Graph showing types of phishing attacks
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24/7 Phish Fry: How Nestle built an AI-Powered phishing detector with Azure.

Foiling attackers who try to lure email users into clicking on a malicious link is a cat-and-mouse game, as phishing tactics evolve to evade detection. But machine learning models designed to recognize phishing attempts can evolve, too, through automatic retraining and checks to maintain accuracy.
Pumpjacks extracting oil during sunset
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Do Oil and Algorithms Mix?: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft built AI tools for big oil.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are developing machine learning tools for the fossil fuel industry even as they pledge to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Animated drawing of hardware related to AI
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Horsepower for Next-Gen Networks: Microsoft built OpenAI a custom AI supercomputer.

The for-profit research organization OpenAI has a new supercomputer to help achieve its dream of building the world’s most sophisticated AI. Microsoft engineered the new hardware network to train immense models on thousands of images, texts, and videos simultaneously.
Exercise training system working
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Personal TrAIner: How AI is helping home workouts

No more sloppy workouts: AI can correct your form. A home exercise system uses neural nets to analyze your motions and tell you when you perform a move properly, reports The Verge.

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