6 billion: Europe has just one big player in the generative AI space: Mistral. The French startup raised $640 million in new funding last week, valuing it at $6 billionWhile OpenAI, Anthropic and other startups have largely stuck to proprietary or closed-source models, Mistral Open Source The model presents a more open approach that is better suited to regulators in Brussels.
230 million: On Thursday,Amazon promised $230 million The company will invest in generative AI startups, including $80 million in the second round of the Amazon Web Services Generative AI Accelerator program, which aims to encourage AI startups to use Amazon’s cloud services.
Five: The stock price of Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Disco Fivefold Demand for chip packaging services is on the rise from 2022 onwards. Compared to other areas of the chip industry, packaging has low profit margins, but demand is growing as chip sizes get smaller and smaller.
52: About half of Americans are comfortable with AI writing the news. 52% of US respondents Researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said they are uncomfortable with the idea that a large portion of their news is written by AI. Even more people in the UK are uncomfortable, with 63% shaking their heads at the idea of ​​news being written by AI. In the US, trust in the media is at an all-time low, and ambivalence about whether media is written by humans or machines may be the clearest sign yet.
