The (geo)politics of AI discussed with the Mistral/Microsoft partnership sparking controversy in Europe, UK's stance on AI regulation, and India's restrictive measures on AI models.
Developments in hardware: NVIDIA's market cap crossing $2T, their new robotics and embodied AI lab GEAR, and China providing compute vouchers for start-ups amidst US sanctions.
Insights into big tech start-ups like OpenAI facing drama, Anthropic unveiling Claude 3 as a GPT-4 challenger, and Mistral launching Le Chat multilingual assistant.