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**Mistral** released an instruct-tuned version of their **Mixtral 8x22B** model, notable for using only **39B active parameters** during inference, outperforming larger models and supporting **5 languages** with **64k context window** and math/code capabilities. The model is available on **Hugging Face** under an **Apache 2.0 license** for local use. **Google** plans to invest over **$100 billion** in AI, with other giants like **Microsoft**, **Intel**, and **SoftBank** also making large investments. The UK criminalized non-consensual deepfake porn, raising enforcement debates. A former **Nvidia** employee claims Nvidia's AI chip lead is unmatchable this decade. AI companions could become a **$1 billion** market. AI has surpassed humans on several basic tasks but lags on complex ones. **Zyphra** introduced **Zamba**, a novel 7B parameter hybrid model outperforming **LLaMA-2 7B** and **OLMo-7B** with less training data, trained on 128 H100 GPUs over 30 days. **GroundX** API advances retrieval-augmented generation accuracy.