Multi-modal, Multi-Aspect, Multi-Form-Factor AI

Between April 12-15, **Reka Core** launched a new GPT4-class multimodal foundation model with a detailed technical report described as "full Shazeer." **Cohere Compass** introduced a foundation embedding model for indexing and searching multi-aspect enterprise data like emails and invoices. The open-source **IDEFICS 2-8B** model continues Google's Flamingo multimodal model reproduction. **Rewind** pivoted to a multi-platform app called Limitless, moving away from spyware. Reddit discussions highlighted **Apple MLX** outperforming **Ollama** and **Mistral Instruct** on M2 Ultra GPUs, GPU choices for LLMs and Stable Diffusion, and AI-human comparisons by Microsoft Research's Chris Bishop. Former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman predicted **GPT-5** will drastically reduce job scopes by 80%. **Mistral** CEO Arthur Mensch criticized the obsession with AGI as "creating God."