Meta is forming a new team to fight disinformation

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Perplexity just dropped this new podcast 

Discover Daily, that recaps the news in 3-4 minutes. It already broke into the top #200 news pods within a week. AND it's all 100% AI-generated.

The podcast uses ElevenLabs to transform trending news on Perplexity into fully-produced podcasts with synthetic voices. Our take? It's surprisingly solid for a news podcast. Concise. Unbiased. And the voice is nearly as soothing as David Attenborough's. The only hiccup? The podcast doesn't disclose it's AI-generated. Why it matters: While we're fans of podcasts with dynamic hosts, Discover Daily presents a novel approach to producing entire podcasts with AI.

What's next: If Perplexity can pull this off, what's to stop them from making a Discover Daily tailored to each listener's preferences for topics, length, style, and voice? Personalized podcasts for billions of people? Perhaps we're jumping the gun.

P.S. Use ElevenLabs or Podcastle to convert text into podcasts!

Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant

Mistral AI has launched a new language large model called Mistral Large to rival other top-tier models like GPT-4 and Claude 2. The company is also launching a new service called Le Chat to compete with ChatGPT. Access to Mistral Large costs $8 per million input tokens and $24 per million output tokens through the company's API. The model supports a context window of 32k tokens and English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. Le Chat is free, but it can't access the web.

Other News

• Microsoft signed a multiyear partnership with French AI startup Mistral that includes taking a minority stake in the 10-month-old company. Under the partnership, Microsoft will launch Mistral's AI models to Azure cloud customers, making Mistral the second company after OpenAI to have its LLMs hosted on the platform. Azure customers will first get access to its latest model, Mistral Large, which competes with GPT-4. Microsoft said it's investing in Mistral to "unlock new commercial opportunities," though it didn't disclose financial details.

• Deutsche Telekom, Europe's biggest telecom operator, introduced a smartphone that relies on AI instead of apps to perform tasks for users. The company's "T-phone" features an app-less interface created in collaboration with Qualcomm and Brain.

• Google's most advanced Gemini models should be integrated directly into smartphones starting next year, according to Google Pixel executive Brian Rakowski. Google has made "breakthroughs" to compress the large language models to run directly on devices, he told CNBC.

• Meta is forming a new team to help fight disinformation and AI misuse ahead of the European Parliament elections in June.

• SK Telecom partnered with U.S. AI startup Perplexity to offer its subscribers an alternative AI-powered search engine.

• Lenovo unveiled its ThinkBook Transparent Display laptop and it’s exactly what it sounds like — a laptop with a completely see-through, 17.3-inch screen.

• Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not

• Apollo calls AI a ‘bubble’ worse than even the dotcom era.

• MultiOn is building software with a brain.

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