
EP53: Mistral Large, Forecasting with LLMs, The Gemini Pile On & Is CoPilot Using GPT-4.5?
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This week we talk about the release of Mistral's Large model, Mistral Le Chat, and their deal with Microsoft Azure. We cover papers on Emote Portrait Alive, AI Lip Reading and Cover the Gemini Pile On and how it is distracting from Gemini and the 1M context size break through. We cover the great "data sale" of both Reddit, Tumblr and Stackoverflow data and discuss the Forecasting with LLM paper from Berkeley. We also cover Klarna's 700 support agent replacing AI agents and ask... is Sydney Back with GPT-4.5?
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Cold open
00:44 - A Tough Week for AI Influencers
02:29 - Mistral Large, Mistral Le Chat & Microsoft Azure Partnership
30:31 - EMO: Emote Portrait Alive
36:26 - VSP-LLM: Visual Speech Processing incorporated with LLMs. AI Lip reading tech.
40:06 - The Google Gemini Pile On / Backlash: Is it taking attention away from 1M context breakthrough?
55:25 - The Great AI Training Data Sale: Reddit, Tumblr, Stackoverflow
1:00:34 - Forecasting with LLMs Paper: Can AI Predict The Future?
1:10:15 - Klarna Says They Replace 700 Humans with AI
1:18:07 - Is Microsoft's CoPilot Update Really GPT-4.5?
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