AI Inside · October 8 · 1 hr 14 min

Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European data centers, and Reflection AI’s Apache-licensed Beam comes from a team of DeepMind veterans, with both aiming at the Chinese labs that have dominated open AI. Also in this episode: Ghost’s $3,499 personal AI computer and Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark, Meta’s Muse building profiles of everyone in your life, XREAL’s Aura pricing, Utah letting AI prescribe acne medication, OpenAI’s textGrain watermarks and ChatGPT image ads, and Nano Banana 2.1. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 - Cold open and episode preview 00:02:57 - Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk and open-weight AI Related: Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals | TechCrunch · Why Mistral's 1T model is a hedge against lock-in | The Deep View · Mistral: "There is no doom scenario" · Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China 00:16:37 - Reflection AI releases Beam 00:22:26 - Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily 00:23:39 - Ghost Core: a $3,499 personal AI computer 00:30:00 - Ramageddon, Qualcomm and the cost of local AI 00:31:40 - Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark 00:33:32 - Who needs an AI computer? Libraries and small businesses 00:38:22 - AI for democracy and public benefits 00:41:40 - Trying Meta Muse as a proactive assistant 00:43:22 - Muse profiles your friends and family 00:50:44 - Build your own Muse Gadgets 00:51:35 - XREAL Aura pricing and the market for XR glasses Related: I Put on Meta and Xreal’s XR Glasses. Face Computers Are Finally Getting Good 00:57:24 - Nolla Health: AI prescriptions for acne in Utah 01:00:58 - Google AI Edge Foresight: on-device notes 01:02:20 - OpenAI TextGrain text watermarks 01:03:05 - Visual ads in ChatGPT and the attention economy 01:05:21 - Google’s Nano Banana 2.1 01:06:26 - SpaceXAI becomes SpaceXSI 01:07:09 - Wrap-up: Jeff Jarvis and Podtuneup Related: Podtuneup Also discussed: Jeff: With AI, Sharing Is Caring Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: aiinside.show Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks. You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Also in this episode: Ghost’s $3,499 personal AI computer and Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark, Meta’s Muse building profiles of everyone in your life, XREAL’s Aura pricing, Utah letting AI prescribe acne medication, OpenAI’s textGrain watermarks and ChatGPT image ads, and Nano Banana 2.1. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor.

CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 - Cold open and episode preview

00:02:57 - Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk and open-weight AI
Related: Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals | TechCrunch · Why Mistral's 1T model is a hedge against lock-in | The Deep View · Mistral: "There is no doom scenario" · Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

00:16:37 - Reflection AI releases Beam

00:22:26 - Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily

00:23:39 - Ghost Core: a $3,499 personal AI computer

00:30:00 - Ramageddon, Qualcomm and the cost of local AI

00:31:40 - Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark

00:33:32 - Who needs an AI computer? Libraries and small businesses

00:38:22 - AI for democracy and public benefits

00:41:40 - Trying Meta Muse as a proactive assistant