Mistral Declares War on OpenAI | MCA5
Bill, Gus, Jim discuss Mistral's Open-Weight Challenge to Big AI, Crypto Prediction Markets Hit $1B Weekly, Antares Raises $96M for Nuclear Microreactors, Cloudflare Blocks 416B AI Bot Requests. This episode of MorpheusCyber.com covers the latest in tech, AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. Episode MCA5.
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Topics Covered:
• Mistral's Open-Weight Challenge to Big AI
- Mistral releases Large 2 model claiming GPT-4 level performance
- European enterprises adopt open-weight models for data sovereignty
• Crypto Prediction Markets Hit $1B Weekly
- Polymarket processes record $3.7 billion in election betting
- Kalshi receives CFTC approval for political betting
• Antares Raises $96M for Nuclear Microreactors
- Antares closes $96M Series A for nuclear microreactor development
- Department of Energy awards $30M for advanced reactor demonstrations
• Cloudflare Blocks 416B AI Bot Requests
- Cloudflare releases first comprehensive AI bot blocking statistics
- WordPress implements AI scraping opt-out by default
Key Statistics:
• Mistral achieved a $2 billion valuation just 18 months after founding (Source: Mistral Series A funding announcement)
• OpenAI projects $3.4 billion in revenue for 2024, mostly from API fees (Source: The Information)
• Mistral Large 2 supports over 80 programming languages and runs on 8 GPUs (Source: Mistral technical documentation)
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@:00 Introduction
02:45 Mistral's Open-Weight Challenge to Big AI
19:30 Crypto Prediction Markets Hit $1B Weekly
32:15 Antares Raises $96M for Nuclear Microreactors
46:20 Cloudflare Blocks 416B AI Bot Requests
58:45 Wrap-up
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