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Mistral AI has released a new open-source model called Medium three point five, positioning it as a rare Western contender in the top tier of publicly available AI. The catch is price — it costs multiples more than Chinese rivals like DeepSeek that still outperform it on benchmarks, leaving the industry asking whether Western provenance alone is worth the premium.
On the subject of AI training methods, a federal court hearing has produced a striking admission from Elon Musk's xAI — that it used OpenAI's models to help train Grok through a technique known as distillation. It's a rare moment of transparency in an industry where how models learn from each other is usually treated as a closely guarded secret.
Meanwhile, Mozilla is pushing back hard against Google's decision to wire an AI interface directly into Chrome. The feature, called the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Mozilla argues that baking AI infrastructure into the browser at this level concentrates too much power in Google's hands and threatens the open web's long-term health.
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