Mistral Outperforms Gemma 3 & GPT-4o Mini

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Mistral Small 3.1 Beats Gemma 3 & GPT-4o Mini; Perplexity Trolls Google’s AI Misstep; Zoom AI to Take Over Tasks.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools: AI Video Podcasts?!

• Top AI & Tech News

• Interesting Uses of AI: Wild Use Cases of AI Image Editing

• AI Video Tutorial

• F-R-E-E AI Course of the Day: Intro to Midjourney

Hottest AI News

Mistral AI SAS

Mistral Small 3.1 Multimodal Surpasses Gemma 3 and GPT 4o-mini

Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3.1, an open-source model that processes both text and images using just 24 billion parameters—smaller than leading proprietary models, yet matching or exceeding their performance.

Details:

• Features improved text capabilities, multimodal understanding, and an expanded 128k token context window, all while processing information at an impressive 150 tokens per second

• Founded in 2023 by ex-Google DeepMind and Meta researchers, Mistral is Europe's top AI startup, valued at $6B. It champions European digital sovereignty and calls itself the "world's greenest independent AI lab"

• Mistral's efficiency tackles AI's high computational and energy costs. As climate and energy concerns grow, its lightweight models could shift from alternative to industry standard

Mistral's European identity offers regulatory benefits under the EU AI Act, with systems built to align with European values—unlike competitors retrofitting for global compliance.

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Perplexity AI

Perplexity Ads Tease Google Over Glue Pizza Mishap

Perplexity released a clever ad starring "Squid Game" actor Lee Jung-jae, poking fun at Google's embarrassing AI mistake last year—suggesting glue on pizza—to highlight the differences between the two search platforms.

Details:

• It shows Lee Jung-jae trapped, asking how to make cheese stick to pizza. He tries "Poogle" (a Google stand-in) before Perplexity advises: "Use fresh mozzarella. Don't use glue."

• This mocks Google's 2023 AI Overview blunder, where it suggested adding Elmer's glue to pizza sauce

• Timing is notable as Google expands AI Overviews by default, while Perplexity positions itself as an "answer engine" alternative—despite its own attribution controversies

The battle for AI search supremacy clearly continues to heat up, with Perplexity unafraid to highlight its competitor's missteps along the way.

Zoom Communications

Zoom AI Companion Will Soon Perform Tasks

Zoom is boosting its AI Companion with features that go beyond meeting help to actually handling tasks for you. The platform is rolling out several AI upgrades designed to streamline your workday by automating routine activities.

Details:

• Zoom's AI Companion is becoming "agentic" this month, with a Tasks tab to schedule meetings, create documents, and generate video clips automatically

• A voice recorder for the Zoom mobile app launches this month, recording, transcribing, and summarizing in-person meetings. Live notes arrive in May for real-time meeting summaries

• In May, a $12/month Custom AI Companion add-on offers custom avatars for messaging, while f-r-e-e generic avatar templates will also be available

Zoom's Chief Product Officer Smita Hashim emphasized that AI is being integrated across every product and interaction to help users accomplish more.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Prosp (Life-time Deal): Automate and scale your LinkedIn outreach with AI-powered personalization to find high-quality leads and book meetings [Price increases in 6 days]

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• Prompt Engineering Studio: Build, test, and deploy AI prompts at scale with a prompt playground, version control, collaboration, and gateway integration for 1600+ models and frameworks

• Proxy DeepWork: DeepWork automates complex, multi-step workflows with AI agents—describe your goal, and it handles the rest

• Gemini Deep Research: Google doubled the number of monthly Deep Research reports for Gemini users at no cost, fully rolled out on mobile [F-R-E-E]

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Top AI & Tech News

• Mark Rober's video showed Tesla's camera-only Autopilot crashing into a wall, raising concerns and accusations of faked results

• Roblox has announced the launch of "Cube," an AI tool that allows creators to generate 3D models using simple text prompts

• A recent Adobe survey of 5,000 US consumers found that 55% use AI for research, 39% for shopping, and 53% plan to start using it soon

• Cal AI, co-founded by teens Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack, has gained 5 million downloads and $2 million in revenue since its May launch

• Recent findings indicate that large language models (LLMs) have surpassed the average human in creating humorous memes

• Elon Musk's xAI has acquired Hotshot, a generative AI video startup known for developing video generation tools similar to OpenAI's Sora

Interesting Uses of AI

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney

Prompt:

The moon is like water, the full and round moon shines on Earth with its soft light. The night sky is filled with stars, and there's an empty valley under the bright, large yellow moon. The waterfall flows down from top to bottom, shining with a golden light, dazzling, and below are some small streams flowing slowly. It seems that you can see clear details of the rocks through the waterfall. This scene invokes deep contemplation. Ultra-wide-angle lens, in the style of fine art photography, high-definition quality. --ar 9:16 --profile oz5g5tw --v 6.1

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Intro to Midjourney

Discover MidJourney, a generative AI tool that creates art using deep learning. Learn to use it for creative expression, simplifying ideas, and exploring its potential responsibly.